Hand-forged Pick Axe Head modern sculpture or for someone like me

or for someone like me who has spent more than her fair share of time in the dentist’s chair

" There was a handwritten attribution on the back of the matte on which this was mounted

(I have not taken it out of the frame to see what is behind it

but there is a date of 1877 carved into the back

but poppies seem to have been a bit of a theme right around the beginning of the 20th century

Hand-forged Pick Axe Head modern sculpture or for someone like meSometimes when I am out hunting for things I find something that just feels good to carry around in my hand, and by the end of my stop if I've become pretty attached to it I won't let it go. This was the case with this hand forged piece, an old pick axe head I believe, which has both a great weight and hand feel to it, and to my eye more than passes the muster as an compelling sculptural object, looking a bit like a hand with one long finger pointing