Awesome Old Red Cast Iron FIRE Box floating leaves with one longer and narrower

with one longer and narrower block meant to represent the trunk of a tree

with the larger stencils producing letters that are 1 inch tall and the smaller letters that are 1/2" tall

7 1/4" t  x 6 3/4" w

either--the giraffe measures almost 10 1/2 tall--so would be especially great for the kids to play around with

it feels as if it contains the wisdom of the universe in the spiral of its shell

Awesome Old Red Cast Iron FIRE Box floating leaves with one longer and narrowerI love the look of this thing so much, its weighing 22 pounds did nothing to deter me! There was surely one a fire alarm mounted inside, now long gone, the wires of which would have been pulled done through a hole in the bottom. I think it is a pretty old one, maybe 1920s or 30s, but all of the ones I can find other there are marked one way or another and this one is not. On the inside of the door is the number 502, which looks to have been scratched