Iron, Brass and Copper Nailed Late 19th Century Petanque Ball handy and the aqua blue on

and the aqua blue on this one is way too good to have resisted

I would be ready to move in

It seems there is often a conflation of spatterware

of things like honestly weathered old wood grows in inverse proportion

Iron, Brass and Copper Nailed Late 19th Century Petanque Ball handy and the aqua blue onA beauty. I've found a few of these over the years but it has been a while. It is a French petanque ball (petanque a version of boules), late 19th century; they don't make iron studded ones like this anymore! From what I have learned about examples like this, the interior of the ball is likely olive wood, which was hand shaped and sanded, and then the square iron nails were hammered in one by one, with each nail hole precisely placed so as not to