SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle triangular tiles I wouldn’t have known to

I wouldn’t have known to look for this

The puppets appear never to have been used

There are a wide array of Daruma out there

but everything in place is sturdy and stable and well attached and not especially fragile

and are likely a mixed pair--one is a bit grayer in tone and the other flecked a bit more brown--but they are of the same size

SOLD Gorgeous Large Primitive Mallet with Five Fat Iron Nails and Name on Handle triangular tiles I wouldn’t have known toAnother old handmade tool that feels like pure sculpture to me, just gorgeous, and with these five old forged iron nails making it look like a giant handmade wood die (as in dice), and a bit like a face, too. Traces of old red paint on one side and white on the other, making for beautiful surfaces, and with, it looks to me, a name pressed in to the handle on one side. Solid and heavy, this could knock the heck out of anything, but also feel to me like