Gorgeous Antique Knotwork Sailor's Cosh or Blackjack risque carving Very good structural shape

Very good structural shape

or maybe just a carved wooden valentine rosebud

Best is the alligator paint

I love old wooden spinning tops just as a form

Gorgeous Antique Knotwork Sailor's Cosh or Blackjack risque carving Very good structural shapeI'm quite obsessed with this exquisitely crafted but also pretty brutal object, a sailor's weapon, preferred over the knife, and which from what I have read was carried by "Press Gangs," who would use them to gather a crew by rendering unsuspecting victims on shore unconscious, only to awake once out at sea. Housed inside the gorgeous macrame knot work at the large end is a lead weight, which would do the damage. The long stretch of the middle is