Working iron

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Farrier's tools. The tool marked "S" is the working iron

The knives or knives are tools of the blacksmiths . This hand tool is used to shape or cut out a horse's hoof before shod. The cutting part of it is in the shape of a small shovel. The iron is about 30  centimeters long and weighs around 500  grams . The vagina width is around 4–5 centimeters.

In French the tool is called butte or boutoir . It can only be found as a heraldic figure in French heraldry . Due to the rarity in the coat of arms , the coat of arms figure has not experienced any special heraldic characteristics. In the coat of arms of the French family Butet are three blue wrought iron as a talking coat of arms in silver.

Description of the coat of arms for the coat of arms of the municipality of Hubersdorf introduced in 1941: In red, on the right six-pointed spherical star , on the left an upright black push-hoof knife (cast iron or boutoir).

literature

  • Works in the Heraldry Wiki
  • Pierer's Universal Lexicon. Volume 19, Altenburg 1865, p. 282.
  • Oscar Mothes: Illustrated Construction Lexicon. Volume 1, Verlagbuchhandlung Otto Spamer, Leipzig / Berlin 1863, p. 494.
  • Carl von Mayer : Heraldic ABC book: that is: the essence and concept of scientific heraldry, its history, literature, theory, etc. Practice. Volume 2, C. Wolf and Son (in Commission Finsterlin), Munich 1857, p. 329.

Individual evidence

  1. Johann Christian Ginzrot: The carts and chassis of the Greeks and Romans and other ancient peoples. Volume 2, J. Lentner, Munich 1817, p. 526.