Antique Booted Leg Threaded Finial or Pull (Doubles as a Pipe Tamper!) antique juggling ball well worn and wonderfully primitive

well worn and wonderfully primitive

or perhaps it will sail on by

" focused on homesteading

overlapping the the front and joined with a nail

so believe the portrait dates to right around 1850

Antique Booted Leg Threaded Finial or Pull (Doubles as a Pipe Tamper!) antique juggling ball well worn and wonderfully primitiveAt first I thought this was a pipe tamper, but there is a threaded opening at the thigh end, so I am pretty certain it was made as a finial or perhaps even a cabinet pull. (With a little searching, I find 19th c. cane handles in a very similar form and manner.) Wonderfully detailed boot, with eye holes and laces up the front, and dots around the perimeter of the sole, too, and then this excellent tightly belted garter. No mark that I can see, mixed