Beautiful Hand-forged and Rasped Presumed Farrier's Tool with Two Files, Hook, and Blade pressed clay planter Watercolor on what I believe

Watercolor on what I believe is bone

or stacks of risque magazines

that this very beautiful boy is in fact a very young soldier--and I have learned that during WW2 Fred Harvey's Harvey House restaurants re-opened to serve soldiers as they traveled in troop trains across the U

with perhaps bit of distress

helping me to understand through the shape of the feet and the character of the iron that this likely dates to around the 1820s

Beautiful Hand-forged and Rasped Presumed Farrier's Tool with Two Files, Hook, and Blade pressed clay planter Watercolor on what I believeI believe this hand forged and rasped iron tool was made for a farrier's use with the rasped areas on either side used for filing a horse's hooves; the extended, arched blade, with one quite sharp edge, used for shoeing; and the hooked short end as a pick. I'm no expert on hoof care, but I do believe that's what this is, and a very custom, antique example. If without horses around to care for, one could use it, say, as a letter opener, with those