US$ 624.50
making me think that whoever made it was perhaps just using whatever they had on hand
and characterizing this in my mind as a "transformation" card-- a type of playing card where the pips are incorporated into an image
interesting mottled glazing
and I assume by the same maker
No Relief! (22) Old Cast Iron Found Object 1827 making me think that whoeverI have no idea what this was once attached to; it doesn't seem deep enough to have been a handle or pull perhaps it was a salesman sample of sort, number 22 of who knows how many? Whatever the case, it's a perfect found object to me, with the No (as in No. 22) next to the RELIEF reading as No Relief which of course often seems to be the case these days on numerous sorts of levels! (At the same time one might read it Relief in its 22nd form, and as I
US$ 624.50
US$ 36.60