Antique Cast Iron Fisted Hand with Cross at Wrist primitive carving and to my eye this

and to my eye this one is about perfect as it gets

9" x 7" x 5/8"

crisp pop to whatever one puts in it

another shaped like a bare foot

but I think such a winning one

Antique Cast Iron Fisted Hand with Cross at Wrist primitive carving and to my eye thisA curious thing, this old cast iron fisted hand weighs nearly 4 pounds, and based on another similar I have found out there sold by another dealer, I believe it might originally have been a gate weight perhaps for a church gate, with the cross at the base but I'm not 100% certain. There is a recess on the reverse side of the hand perhaps to which somehow a chain once attached. The other similar I found was dated to Civil War era, and I might guess