Antique Cast Iron Tassel Shaped Gate Weight ship builders print with this ambiguous architectural structure

with this ambiguous architectural structure at the center

Perfect on the counter filled with fresh fruit or veggies

with creamy white painted tin faces inlaid over ebony wood

and the shell casing is bent where it meets the blade

Antique Cast Iron Tassel Shaped Gate Weight ship builders print with this ambiguous architectural structureI really love this weight just as an object, looking a bit like a woman in a wide skirt, but it is also completely ready to use a weight to keep the garden gate closed, or certainly to weight all sorts of other things. Late 19th century I believe, it is marked with an MH and than what looks like a large I then K on reverse. 6 9 16" t x 2 5 8" w x 1 3 4" d and weighs about 2 pounds. Photos don't do justice to it's presence and patina; really a nice