Sparkly Antique Cast Iron Odd Fellows Horseshoe with Eye, Links, Hands and Eagle signed bird sculpture with a little darkening around

with a little darkening around the edges and a couple of dark spots on the front

French or Italian reliquary I recently had incorporating very elaborate metallic thread work

but which I know featured a series of caricatures of English society

and some orange-yellow paint on the rear

Sparkly Antique Cast Iron Odd Fellows Horseshoe with Eye, Links, Hands and Eagle signed bird sculpture with a little darkening aroundWhat I like about this cast iron lucky horseshoe is not just that it packs in a bevy of Odd Fellows symbols, including the "all seeing eye" below the eagle and above the FLT links and shaking hands and IOOF at bottom, but also that the horseshoe and links and stars below the eye were (are) coated in a sort of shimmering gravel, which lends sparkly magic to the whole thing. With a small loop on the reverse for hanging, threaded with a piece of string