This quite rarely "rhombicuboctahedron"-shaped point lever weight was
once upon a time used by a few Swedish railways before the nationalizing
process.

Is this a form more or less well-known in other countries?

http://www.abc.se/home/m10901/RAIL/osj_klot.html

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