Pair of Mid-Century Stanley Painted Steel Plumb Bobs Trenton Manufacturing creamy salmon-y pink background enhanced

creamy salmon-y pink background enhanced by an irregular greenish brown band

with a bit of spotting to the wood on its back

with small tears to the bottom corners of the card

This is an early—very late 18th or very early 19th century—French lacquered papier-mâché snuff box

Pair of Mid-Century Stanley Painted Steel Plumb Bobs Trenton Manufacturing creamy salmon-y pink background enhancedI've got a bit of a thing for plumb bobs beautiful forms, which also always feel good in the hand, and there is something so elemental and true feeling about the act of finding a plumb. These two were made by Stanley c. 1960s or so; the red is No. 170, 5 oz; the yellow No. 171, 8 oz. I love the ribs on them, and the way the paint has hung on just along them, with what looks like some yellow paint to the larger as what I imagine was a happy accident.