Uncle holding something

[u/Hangry-24-7]

Picture of my wife’s uncle as a boy 7 or 8 yrs old. Grew up on a farm in western NY. This picture dates back to around 1947 or 1948. What is the boy holding? Is it a toy? Or some sort of farm tool?

Update — yes this photo was enhanced using ai to take the graininess out of the original picture. My wife is giving a copy of the image to her cousin for an 80th birthday gift along with other photos.

The AI bashing on this post is unbelievable! How come nobody is bashing the fact that I used a scanner to create a jpeg of the image as opposed to creating a duplicate from a photo negative in a dark room and sending out 250 copies thru the postal service?

[u/Anders_A]

It's probably not possible to identify it when you only give us the LLM "enhanced" version of the image as the LLM adds information that's not actually there and thus will make it harder to identify.

Give us the original and we might be able to help!