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What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: oblongsquare on May 06, 2020, 09:11:35 AM

Title: tool identification, please?
Post by: oblongsquare on May 06, 2020, 09:11:35 AM

Any help in identifying this tool would be appreciated. It's about 9 inches long, and looks like a railroad spike with rounded over ends. The wide end is about 2 inches in diameter.

The maker's mark looks something like a V-shaped crown.

(https://ibb.co/qjfzVFx)
(https://ibb.co/XVPC4L1)

(https://i.ibb.co/nRyL0m9/20200506-155744.jpg) (https://ibb.co/XVPC4L1)
(https://i.ibb.co/3dqwQYk/20200506-140637.jpg) (https://ibb.co/qjfzVFx)

Many thanks for your help!

Title: Re: tool identification, please?
Post by: Papaw on May 06, 2020, 12:00:34 PM

I want to suggest Woodings Verona, but after searching a bit, I don't think so.

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Title: Re: tool identification, please?
Post by: skipskip on May 06, 2020, 03:41:38 PM

medical?

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Title: Re: tool identification, please?
Post by: wvtools on May 06, 2020, 08:16:42 PM

Looks like some kind of silversmith's hand stake or dolly to me.

Title: Re: tool identification, please?
Post by: oblongsquare on May 07, 2020, 01:21:32 AM

Thank you all for your messages. Yes, on further research I believe it is a metalsmithing stake. Similar to this
https://anvils.co.uk/product/mushroom-head-stake/ (https://anvils.co.uk/product/mushroom-head-stake/)

I got it in a batch of tools that were mostly from the 1930s, so perhaps it's from a similar era? I haven't found any info on the mark though.