Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack etching calling cards with fabulous fat iron nails

with fabulous fat iron nails all over

with a small tear to the top edge of the spine

I am not certain the age of this puppet

Some loss to the old creamy white paint

uphill journey

Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack etching calling cards with fabulous fat iron nailsI've had a couple of very beautiful antique knotwork (macrame) sailor's coshes, which were actually what made me aware of this type of weapon, more commonly known as a blackjack. Subtle, but brutal, they features a pliable, braided middle and heavily weighted end, designed to enable a very bruising thwacking. Perhaps this black leather one, well worn at the weight end and reinforced with near the handle, was carried by a policeman in the 1920s or so,