Beautiful Antique Iron Rake-Hoe Head slip painted and one can just feel

and one can just feel whoever that maker was carving out each piece and then every single dot

I like utilitarian signs that have the capacity to signal meaning based on context

and would guess they date to the late 19th or early 20th century

One more head for today

Beautiful Antique Iron Rake-Hoe Head slip painted and one can just feelSuch a beautiful form, looking rather like a creature on four spindly legs holding up a sign, or, the other way, like a body with antler or antenna, arms raised and legs spread. I believe it is an antique iron garden "rake hoe" head, c. late 19th century, I believe by its scale for a hand held tool; by the early 20th c. these more typically divided into two separate tools. Striking now hung on the wall; the round opening at center is also just the