Beautiful Antique Iron Rake-Hoe Head slip painted giving the piece a great

giving the piece a great  sweetness and tenderness

made in 1964

and would guess they date to the late 19th or early 20th century

and rather strange

which is holding sturdily

Beautiful Antique Iron Rake-Hoe Head slip painted giving the piece a greatSuch a beautiful form, looking rather like a creature on four spindly legs holding up a sign, or, the other way, like a body with antler or antenna, arms raised and legs spread. I believe it is an antique iron garden "rake hoe" head, c. late 19th century, I believe by its scale for a hand held tool; by the early 20th c. these more typically divided into two separate tools. Striking now hung on the wall; the round opening at center is also just the