Pair of Mid-Century Stanley Painted Steel Plumb Bobs painted house (It is quite heavy

(It is quite heavy

There are several holes at the top off each leg where it joins the body

and I must say I find it a great pleasure to unfurl them and then lock the handles in place

one assumes the bottles and the labels are a hundred years old or so

Pair of Mid-Century Stanley Painted Steel Plumb Bobs painted house (It is quite heavyI've got a bit of a thing for plumb bobs beautiful forms, which also always feel good in the hand, and there is something so elemental and true feeling about the act of finding a plumb. These two were made by Stanley c. 1960s or so; the red is No. 170, 5 oz; the yellow No. 171, 8 oz. I love the ribs on them, and the way the paint has hung on just along them, with what looks like some yellow paint to the larger as what I imagine was a happy accident.