Beautiful Hand-forged and Rasped Presumed Farrier's Tool with Two Files, Hook, and Blade pressed clay planter with perhaps bit of distress

with perhaps bit of distress

There are no eye holes so wearing as a mask would be pretty challenging

that this very beautiful boy is in fact a very young soldier--and I have learned that during WW2 Fred Harvey's Harvey House restaurants re-opened to serve soldiers as they traveled in troop trains across the U

75" tall x

a drawer that pulls out

Beautiful Hand-forged and Rasped Presumed Farrier's Tool with Two Files, Hook, and Blade pressed clay planter with perhaps bit of distressI believe this hand forged and rasped iron tool was made for a farrier's use with the rasped areas on either side used for filing a horse's hooves; the extended, arched blade, with one quite sharp edge, used for shoeing; and the hooked short end as a pick. I'm no expert on hoof care, but I do believe that's what this is, and a very custom, antique example. If without horses around to care for, one could use it, say, as a letter opener, with those