Perfect Object: Antique Cast Iron Two Pound Scale Weight sandwich box I really love the face

I really love the face on this cat

I might gift it to my favorite king- or queen-like character

and mended at some point years ago

perhaps a mythological one

Perfect Object: Antique Cast Iron Two Pound Scale Weight sandwich box I really love the faceOne certainly comes across old scale weights, but I must say I don't think one has ever struck me as this one does to my eye just a perfect object, with just the right sort of "2" which somehow makes me think of carnivals and circuses and so too targets and strongmen and high striker games, etc. Cast iron, 19th c. I believe, with the rings stepped back toward the center. Perfect as a large and heavy paperweight now or a handy 2 lb. hand weight! 3 5 16