Three or more Tuesday Curtain weights

Some 15 years agoo I stumbled on these very heavy things. I had never seen them before. The man in the store told me that this are curtain weights.

I have never seen them in action because they must be more then 100 years old. He told me that in olden days curtains where so heavy and high that people could not close them. So a sort of system was installed with a double row of heavy cords and at the end you could hang one of thesevery heavy weights . By hanging the weights, this would then pull the curtains open....
It is hard to discribe it but I hope you cam invisage something by my discription.

I started looking out for them to see if I could find more. The very first ones I found in later years where almost always the tassel shaped ones. I have 2 more tassel shaped ones then you can see on the picture but I have no place to hang them and one is even missing the eye to hang it. They all differ slightly.
Later I found the two hands holding grapes. But the most special ones are the bird ( a simple dead one or is it the Holy Ghost) and the portrait of the man.
I have never curtain weights shaped like these again.

Now, I no longer look for these weights because I lack the place to hang them but I still find it an interesting collection. Have one of you ever seen them before??