Sparkly Antique Cast Iron Odd Fellows Horseshoe with Eye, Links, Hands and Eagle signed bird sculpture which one has to look

which one has to look closely to notice

Very sturdy

I'm a sucker for little shoes and boots

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

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

Sparkly Antique Cast Iron Odd Fellows Horseshoe with Eye, Links, Hands and Eagle signed bird sculpture which one has to lookWhat 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