Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina nutcracker with no discoloration

with no discoloration

25 tall and just short of 3

happy perched most anywhere or carried in a pocket as a good luck charm

while the neck and lower half are painted a very pale blue

This is a gorgeous art pottery plate with calla lily design produced by San Jose Pottery

Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina nutcracker with no discolorationI've become completely enamored of old handcrafted tools just for the spectacular, typically wonderfully worn objects that they are, but I'm also trying to learn a bit about what they are and do along the way! This is an old wood I think perhaps beech and forged iron spokeshave, the incredible beauty of which photos do not do justice. Spokeshaves which apparently date to prehistoric times, when they were used to shape arrow shafts occupy a space