Iron, Brass and Copper Nailed Late 19th Century Petanque Ball Korean ginger jar and a beautiful photograph formally

and a beautiful photograph formally

and perhaps even longer to make a complete loop

Ink faded on the latter

because I can't get enough of these and think they're a great thing to collect

Paper is 12" x 9 and shows an old horizontal center fold and tears to the top right corner edge and staining at lower right

Iron, Brass and Copper Nailed Late 19th Century Petanque Ball Korean ginger jar and a beautiful photograph formallyA 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