Antique Cast Iron Fisted Hand with Cross at Wrist vintage Japanese sculpture with the number of tassels

with the number of tassels indicating rank

but when laid on its side it can be positioned however one likes

in addition to a smaller board for another game

There are a few small bends in the metal

Both are in excellent condition

Antique Cast Iron Fisted Hand with Cross at Wrist vintage Japanese sculpture with the number of tasselsA curious thing, this old cast iron fisted hand weighs nearly 4 pounds, and based on another similar I have found out there sold by another dealer, I believe it might originally have been a gate weight perhaps for a church gate, with the cross at the base but I'm not 100% certain. There is a recess on the reverse side of the hand perhaps to which somehow a chain once attached. The other similar I found was dated to Civil War era, and I might guess