Iron, Brass and Copper Nailed Late 19th Century Petanque Ball handy 4 1/8" x 2 1/2"

4 1/8" x 2 1/2" x 15/16"

but he sure feels like a very specific person--and a sharp dresser at that

These shuttlecocks

Ireland [now in Northern Ireland]—died December 17

and the aqua blue on this one is way too good to have resisted

Iron, Brass and Copper Nailed Late 19th Century Petanque Ball handy 4 1/8" x 2 1/2"A beauty. I've found a few of these over the years but it has been a while. It is a French petanque ball (petanque a version of boules), late 19th century; they don't make iron studded ones like this anymore! From what I have learned about examples like this, the interior of the ball is likely olive wood, which was hand shaped and sanded, and then the square iron nails were hammered in one by one, with each nail hole precisely placed so as not to