Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina nutcracker while the neck and lower

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

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

but the wood has been hollowed out and whittled

Canada pottery

And with its pretty gold-toned wheat design in relief

Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina nutcracker while the neck and lowerI'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