Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack antique transformation card which begins with two boys

which begins with two boys discovering a giant painting of marching elephants on the wall of a local barn announcing the (pre-Barnum & Bailey) circus coming to town

(Also feels a bit like a precursor to folded cigarette pack frames

Hard not to feel a little happier with this one around

and I have to think we'd all fall in love with language if they were again

or just tossed around

Well Used and Reinforced Old Braided Leather Black Jack antique transformation card which begins with two boysI've had a couple of very beautiful antique knotwork (macrame) sailor's coshes, which were actually what made me aware of this type of weapon, more commonly known as a blackjack. Subtle, but brutal, they features a pliable, braided middle and heavily weighted end, designed to enable a very bruising thwacking. Perhaps this black leather one, well worn at the weight end and reinforced with near the handle, was carried by a policeman in the 1920s or so,