Antique Cast Iron Fisted Hand with Cross at Wrist vintage Japanese sculpture There are a few small

There are a few small bends in the metal

but when laid on its side it can be positioned however one likes

So let it be as they have said

I am not 100% certain the maker of this piece

Both are in excellent condition

Antique Cast Iron Fisted Hand with Cross at Wrist vintage Japanese sculpture There are a few smallA curious thing, this old cast iron fisted hand weighs nearly 4 pounds, and based on another similar I have found out there sold by another dealer, I believe it might originally have been a gate weight perhaps for a church gate, with the cross at the base but I'm not 100% certain. There is a recess on the reverse side of the hand perhaps to which somehow a chain once attached. The other similar I found was dated to Civil War era, and I might guess