Sparkly Antique Cast Iron Odd Fellows Horseshoe with Eye, Links, Hands and Eagle molded pottery If there were ever a

If there were ever a thing to make one long for a big pitcher of fresh squeezed lemonade (or just to feel better about the lemons life might be handing out)

the absence of which to me at least makes it's gestures feel rather more poignant

Almost all of the pieces--shaped like arrows and paddles and bows and spades--have a number value written on one side

All of the tiny "teeth" appear to have been individually carved of wood

It doesn't much bother me (and one could easily repaint the side edge black) since all eyes are on those eyes and mouth

Sparkly Antique Cast Iron Odd Fellows Horseshoe with Eye, Links, Hands and Eagle molded pottery If there were ever aWhat 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