Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight antique wood with the box glazed in

with the box glazed in bright white and the flat lid in grays and yellow feeling very late 50s modernist abstraction

The winder can be a bit jerky if held horizontally rather than vertically (but not problematically so

but only very very rarely do I find them

with a 2 Cent Washington stamp on reverse

I also love how it holds this fish tight against its chest in a gesture which

Late Roman - Early Byzantine Many Faceted Tiny Bronze Weight antique wood with the box glazed inI'm no expert on late Roman early Byzantine bronze weights to say the least, but I am rather obsessed with this one, finding it a wonderfully mysterious, miraculous, and beautiful tiny thing. I purchased it from a favorite shop (very beautiful itself) in Vermont, where one of the two owners s himself obsessed and quite knowledge about these sorts of things. I haven't dug very deep, but from what I understand small bronze weights like this were used as