Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier like this terrific vintage Modernist/Brutalist

like this terrific vintage Modernist/Brutalist cast bronze brooch

the basic goal is to grab one jack while throwing the ball in the air then letting it bounce once and catching it

which fits very tightly (I started to remove it

but I don’t care much--just quite an evocative thing

a lot of them actually made by women in internment camps during WWII

Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight Mary Scheier like this terrific vintage Modernist/BrutalistI'm no expert on late Roman early Byzantine bronze weights to say the least, but I am rather obsessed with this one, finding it a wonderfully mysterious, miraculous, and beautiful tiny thing. I purchased it from a favorite shop (very beautiful itself) in Vermont, where one of the two owners s himself obsessed and quite knowledge about these sorts of things. I haven't dug very deep, but from what I understand small bronze weights like this were used as