Antique Iron Cannonball With Mustachioed Face! metal game board 16 3/4" x 16 1/8"

16 3/4" x 16 1/8" x 2 1/2" deep including nails

I fell madly in love with so called "Bactrian princesses" -- small ancient stone carved figurines made between the late third and early second millennia B

the paint on it is a much brighter white

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which I think adds to a bit of mystery about them

Antique Iron Cannonball With Mustachioed Face! metal game board 16 3/4" x 16 1/8"I've really fallen in love with this curiosity, which weighs in at 12 pounds, and so much wonder how it came to be. It sure seems to me like an actual cannonball, and quite an old one, though I am no expert on cannonballs, and I suppose it is possible that it was an iron ball used for some sort of carnival purpose, which might explain the face painted on it, long ago for sure. But looking at Civil War cannonballs makes me think it could be that, with