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Offline skipskip

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unidentified hammer
« on: October 20, 2015, 08:52:02 PM »
found at the flea, but I cant picture it's use or name.  any help?


prolly a pound maybe a bit more

AOCT 497 by Skip Albright, on Flickr

AOCT 498 by Skip Albright, on Flickr
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Offline Twilight Fenrir

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Re: unidentified hammer
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2015, 09:08:15 PM »
Looks hand made. Each end kind of looks like an antique masons hammer, but usually the other side would be flat not a straight pein as well... It might have started life as a masons hammer, broke or something, so they had the left (in the first picture) end forged down to match...

It might have started like this: (They are two different hammers... with slightly different proportions, but I couldn't find a top view of exactly the right thing for some reason)

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Offline leg17

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Re: unidentified hammer
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2015, 12:21:56 AM »
Quote from: skipskip on October 20, 2015, 08:52:02 PM
found at the flea, but I cant picture it's use or name.  any help?


prolly a pound maybe a bit more

AOCT 497 by Skip Albright, on Flickr

AOCT 498 by Skip Albright, on Flickr

Maybe for dressing millstones?
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Offline 51cub

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Re: unidentified hammer
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2015, 07:02:51 PM »
I'm with leg for a millbill. I have descriptions around here someplace, but I'll have to look around for it
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Offline wvtools

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Re: unidentified hammer
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2015, 03:18:09 PM »
Mill pick heads typically have the faces and eyes oriented at 90 degrees relative to that one.  I would go with stone masons hammer.
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