Gorgeous Antique Knotwork Sailor's Cosh or Blackjack risque carving finished with linseed oil and

finished with linseed oil and lacquer

1/16's measure 1 1/4" cubed

or maybe just a carved wooden valentine rosebud

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Gorgeous Antique Knotwork Sailor's Cosh or Blackjack risque carving finished with linseed oil andI'm quite obsessed with this exquisitely crafted but also pretty brutal object, a sailor's weapon, preferred over the knife, and which from what I have read was carried by "Press Gangs," who would use them to gather a crew by rendering unsuspecting victims on shore unconscious, only to awake once out at sea. Housed inside the gorgeous macrame knot work at the large end is a lead weight, which would do the damage. The long stretch of the middle is