Early Odd Fellows Shaking Hands Good Luck Horseshoe biographical drawings When you turn the crank

When you turn the crank

including many hold to light postcards

and the soft

with some sand/dirt in the recesses between the spikes

paper cover

Early Odd Fellows Shaking Hands Good Luck Horseshoe biographical drawings When you turn the crankI 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