SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross magnetic puzzle making it perfect for sitting

making it perfect for sitting like a sculpture on a shelf

but here this beautiful small footed bowl with coppery glaze I just stumbled upon in Maine

7 3/8" d x 3 1/8" t

and those five disks with "stem" at center look a bit like a lotus

This is one of several old photos I purchased yesterday at the Papertown show in Boxborough

SOLD Excellent Five Pound Civil War Era (Date Stamped) Iron Horse Tether with Cross magnetic puzzle making it perfect for sittingI really tried to walk away from this one, thinking I really did not need a 5 pound iron horse tether, but between the five sided form and the cross and the italic font of that 5, it was just too good and satisfying as an object to let go. And would make a good doorstop, or tether for the dog, now. All the more I was delighted to turn it over while photographing it to find a date stamped (impressed) at the center, 186_ (I believe 1864.) And two