Antique Cast Iron Good Luck (Presumed Fraternal) Horseshoe with Original Paint glass slide kaleidoscope My new favorite antique watercolor

My new favorite antique watercolor

Housed as found in old Flinch box which shows some wear but is great looking too and perfect for storing both together

but at some point the stop was removed or lost

This is one of a new batch of several antique math and geometry notebooks just in--from a bookseller in England whose late husband collected them

Antique Cast Iron Good Luck (Presumed Fraternal) Horseshoe with Original Paint glass slide kaleidoscope My new favorite antique watercolorI've found some other old cast iron horseshoes featuring shaking hands like this one (though no other with this terrific heart and star at center), and so believe it likely had fraternal associations. This one was clearly hand painted, still showing a pattern of little flowers all along the horseshoe, cream paint on the shaking hands, and dark red on the heart, and at the very top one can just make out the words "Good Luck." Based on a few other