Sculptural Old Iron Log Splitting Cones - Sold Individually antique school slate painting Initialed with what looks like

Initialed with what looks like LSH on the underside

It features the head of Silenus (a drinking companion of Bacchus) on one side

” I think this really could not be any better

a mother sitting atop her presumed lost child

but I have found no exact match for these and believe them to be quite an early deck

Sculptural Old Iron Log Splitting Cones - Sold Individually antique school slate painting Initialed with what looks likeI find these old cast iron log splitting cones really beautiful objects, with sculptural forms evocative of towers and rockets and all sorts of things, and with surfaces that show a great combination of gold and rust. And, they are might heavy, so could be used as doorstops or bookends or whatever. The one at left in first photo was made by Oregon, with a patent pending stamp in the opposite side; the one at right shows Patent No 4887753. Left: 6 1 4"