Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack etching calling cards The lid of one features

The lid of one features an archer in green and burgundy on yellow horse

16 3/8 x 5 15/16 x 6 1/8 and in good condition

with fabulous fat iron nails all over

to her proud profile

Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack etching calling cards The lid of one featuresI'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,