Incredible Sculptural Antique Wooden Saddle with Original Rope Joinings hand drawn postcard but I'd probably just hang

but I'd probably just hang it straight on the wall as is

A couple of pages show staining as pictured but overall pretty good condition and the construction type paper on which they were drawn is not especially brittle

8 1/4" x 6 3/4

so a velvet covered top was added as a replacement to protect them Personally though

Incredible Sculptural Antique Wooden Saddle with Original Rope Joinings hand drawn postcard but I'd probably just hangI found this wooden saddle in Massachusetts, though am not sure where it came from; I just found it a phenomenal sculptural object, which also reads quite like a very primitive, large mask when hung on the wall, with ear like pieces at top. Definitely it is quite old, with fabulous fat iron nails all over, a hand hammered iron strip along one curve, and then these two areas of woven and knotted rope on the face, looking rather like God's eyes and