Ironwork: fire tongs

Ironwork: fire tongs

Blacksmithing

Handicraft

Iron implements

Metal-work

These wrought iron fire tongs have a spiral shaft with a decorative spiral leaf top. Made by Daniel Boone VI, they are part of the fire tool rack. Although made in the 1950s, these are typical of the work Boone was creating in the 1940s. Boone was a fifth generation blacksmith, trained by his father Kelse Boone of Burnsville, N.C. He taught industrial arts students at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, N.C. in the 1940s and also operated a forge with his brother Lawrence Boone, and later by himself, in Spruce Pine, N.C.

Boone Forge (Spruce Pine, N.C.)

Boone VI, Daniel

Hubert Hayes Collection

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1950/1959

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crafts (art genres)

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15252

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Yancey County (N.C.)

Appalachian Region, Southern

28" x 4"(dimension)

Craft Revival