Coupler Couple, Earlyish 19th C. Iron Buckboard Wagon Couplers-Cum-Snakes british cartoon harvested soil behind them

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and really paying attention to the decorative painting on pieces like this

A pair of very old handmade Punch and Judy puppet heads

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Coupler Couple, Earlyish 19th C. Iron Buckboard Wagon Couplers-Cum-Snakes british cartoon harvested soil behind themReally fun to find these, purchased from the same Lancaster, PA dealer as a great mid 19th c. crooked neck Knickerbocker stoneware beer bottle that I listed and sold last week. I know from him that they are couplers (joining pieces) from an early American buckboard wagon, which at some point accrued two eyes each, transforming them into snakes! Beautiful forms and very satisfying physicality to the iron to begin with, and of course all the better