Early Odd Fellows Shaking Hands Good Luck Horseshoe stereoscopic slides Otherwise they're pretty structurally sound

Otherwise they're pretty structurally sound and stable

with just a bit of darkening and bumping around the edges

a name carved into the wood at the top of one side

some in French) range from poems by Jean Cocteau and Paul Valery

so beautiful

Early Odd Fellows Shaking Hands Good Luck Horseshoe stereoscopic slides Otherwise they're pretty structurally soundI believe this Odd Fellows horseshoe once read Luck along the bottom, but somehow (it would seem it was deliberately) the Luck piece is gone. Thus, it feels more as if carrying a message of good citizenship and friendship, which is certainly more within one's control! It seems there have been multiple iterations of good luck horseshoes of a similar ilk, but I believe this is an early one, late 19th very early 20th c, painted cast iron I believe, gold