Possible Clues:

• Good luck symbol
• Hoof protector
• It may be around a stake
• House here's so dilapidated — is that lucky?
• U-shaped object pitched at a stake
• Smith's product worn in a red-light district, they say?
• Work of a forger, bent but possibly lucky
• Base metal forged from pieces in Soho and SE twenty five
• Lucky Arab's mule?
• Good-luck piece