Ironwork: fire poker

This wrought iron fire poker, made by Daniel Boone, VI, is part of the fire took rack. The poker has a spiral shaft and a leaf top. Although made in the 1950s, this is 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