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

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)

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?

I'm with leg for a millbill. I have descriptions around here someplace, but I'll have to look around for it

Mill pick heads typically have the faces and eyes oriented at 90 degrees relative to that one.  I would go with stone masons hammer.