Old Grain Scoop with Make Do Welded Spike Adaptation sampler with house and alphabets but what I love most

but what I love most is the way that the shot and eroded away parts of the head and neck/back transform this duck into a fiercer looking creature - like a serpent of some sort

Just a charming little friend

studied and started making pottery together in East Tennesee

this great old handmade donkey

The silver inlay (I'm not certain if sterling) appears almost entirely in tact

Old Grain Scoop with Make Do Welded Spike Adaptation sampler with house and alphabets but what I love mostI'm always happy to find objects, and tools especially, that were altered by someone along the way for a specific purpose, as was clearly the case with this old scoop, to which a series of sharp spikes were welded, transforming it into a singular and much more aggressive sort of object! I believe the scoop itself was made for grain, but, as if found it coated in soot, am thinking the spikes may have been added for stoking and scooping out a fireplace?