Antique Primitive Laundry Fork with Pyrography Decoration brass elephant This little cast-iron snail sculpture

This little cast-iron snail sculpture is a wonderful thing to hold in your hand: weighty and substantial

I think the construction is amazing

a squirrel

I really might instead turn it upside down and build an alter around this one

Antique Primitive Laundry Fork with Pyrography Decoration brass elephant This little cast-iron snail sculptureI personally had no real idea what it was when I found this piece, but now it makes perfect sense this would be the right tool for stirring and lifting clothes from washtubs. What I find especially intruiging about it are the cartoonish pyrograph designs, including spotted dog, Indian head, and flowers and vines, as well as two sets of initials, HJG and HJP. Ive learned that in the late 19th and early 20th century women especially were encouraged to