Clenched Fist, Antique Bronze Paperweight novelty ashtray The multi-color alphabet across the

The multi-color alphabet across the top makes me imagine it once held a trove of bone letters (if only it did still

Another of a few early 1920s drawings by an employee at the Bedford National Bank in Bedford

Just so right

and it seems in Erie only for a brief time as the rest of their lives were living in and around Northhampton

someone disarmed him at some point long ago and seems to have given him pants to boot

Clenched Fist, Antique Bronze Paperweight novelty ashtray The multi-color alphabet across theHard to resist a good hand, and this one, bronze, has a great presence and weight and resolve to it; no fuss, just right. The image of a hand gripping a scroll or bar was a common one during the Victorian era generally associated with ideas of fortitude and resilience, but also I believe more specifically with pro freedom and or anti slavery movements, symbolizing the strength required to "break chains" or "uphold liberty." I have not dug deep into