Iron, Brass and Copper Nailed Late 19th Century Petanque Ball antique American tintype from the estate of a

from the estate of a cat fanatic

and must say that when I received it it was quite dusty

kept by a Harry S

probably there was some trim

Wove paper

Iron, Brass and Copper Nailed Late 19th Century Petanque Ball antique American tintype from the estate of aA 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