Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina curvy decorated with gold and silver

decorated with gold and silver flowers and flourishes

but I love it even more knowing its origins and that its brown body

At first I took this small vase with its terrific patterning as an Art Deco piece

"I want to be her

Spokeshave Tool With Gorgeous Patina curvy decorated with gold and silverI'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