SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross magnetic puzzle 7 3/8" d x 3

7 3/8" d x 3 1/8" t

Center of the R is missing and there is a small tear to the brass at the bottom of that letter

or in some cases instructions for how to create an illusion according to the diagram on the face of the card

perfectly clean tear on the left edge midway down

SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross magnetic puzzle 7 3/8" d x 3I really tried to walk away from this one, thinking I really did not need a 5 pound iron horse tether, but between the five sided form and the cross and the italic font of that 5, it was just too good and satisfying as an object to let go. And would make a good doorstop, or tether for the dog, now. All the more I was delighted to turn it over while photographing it to find a date stamped (impressed) at the center, 186_ (I believe 1864.) And two