Old Wooden Barbell with Hand-drawn Faces walled city only a few miles away

only a few miles away from where I found this

I went back to the source last weekend and found one more drawing from a lot of historic battle scenes and warriors done I'd guess by a school aged boy in the earlyish 20th century on 1870s ledger paper

red with a yellow stripes around the perimeter

and the larger scheme of things

Old Wooden Barbell with Hand-drawn Faces walled city only a few miles awayJust a fun one or two! Wooden barbells always seem a bit of a funny thing to me, as if lifting 3 4 of a pound would do a lot for one's muscles, but I'm glad they exist, and especially the two faces drawn long ago on this one, one looking rather flirty and the other more pensive and perhaps mildly concerned. Certainly encouragement to do a little very light weight lifting, and of course a nice addition to a group of carvings or folky faces of whatever