Antique Shepherd's Leg Crook

• Antique Shepherd's Leg Crook.

• Leg crook with flattened sweep and flattened ball shaped finial

• Gentle sweep to leg guide

• Mouth opening 1.5 inch

• Crook K in the multiple pic.

• County not known.

The shepherd was the highest paid of all the farm workers on a farm - he held the most responsibility looking after the master's flock.

This is a leg crook and would have been his everyday working crook. There are also Neck crooks, dipping crooks etc which were used only seasonally.