Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack antique transformation card 9 3/4" t x 5

9 3/4" t x 5 1/4" w x 4"d  and in good condition

Hard not to feel a little happier with this one around

(Also feels a bit like a precursor to folded cigarette pack frames

once he'd made the sculpture

and I have to think we'd all fall in love with language if they were again

Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack antique transformation card 9 3/4" t x 5I'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,