Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina carrying milk buckets it would be great at

it would be great at the center of the dinner table or on a mid-century modern credenza

with wonderfully shaped front and back flippers

with a few very tiny (barely noticeable) chips in the lacquer on its body on one side and a tiny bit of loss of lacquer around the very bottom edge of the base--none of which I think detract from the vase overall

it was published by the Hayes Lithographing Co

Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina carrying milk buckets it would be great atI'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