This looks like a bush hammer but is not heavy and the point of the hammer are rounded.  What's it for?

It is a meat tenderizer.

I too think it is a meat tenderizer.

Pepper steak anyone?

Then what is the other end used for?  It is smooth and rounded.

Some of those kitchen tools were patented as combination meat tenderizers and ice chipper/crushers.

Quote from: azdale on February 02, 2013, 08:05:46 PM
Then what is the other end used for?  It is smooth and rounded.

Bacon tenderizer?

Quote from: Bill Houghton on February 02, 2013, 10:22:23 PM

Quote from: azdale on February 02, 2013, 08:05:46 PM
Then what is the other end used for?  It is smooth and rounded.

Bacon tenderizer?

LOL Who wants tender bacon the crisper the bettter.

>Then what is the other end used for?  It is smooth and rounded

So is the other end if you think about it.

Meat tenderizers basicly fall into 2 types, sharp tools that cut slots in the meat disconnecting the gristle, and impact tools that bruise the meat. You have the latter kind, the 'hatchet' shaped end is just so you can aim it at a specific area instead of covering broad pattern....

(and as wvtools pointed out, some of these were advertised as combination ice chippers, or dual use tools for both...)
Sort of an irony, many of these tools were invented in an age that was the dawning of public awareness of sanitation, but it seems not to have occurred to anyone that getting raw meat juices in your ice wasn't a good thing....

Quote from: azdale on February 02, 2013, 08:05:46 PM
Then what is the other end used for?  It is smooth and rounded.

Still a meat tenderizer.  You can tenderize meat with the edge of a plate in a pinch, something my mother was known to do.  You can also use a wine bottle, which I've been known to do.

Thanks everyone for the answers.  I did find this same tool in a Google search and it is always called a meat tenderizer.  Now, do I keep it or sell it?  What's it worth?

Quote from: azdale on February 03, 2013, 09:49:48 AM
Thanks everyone for the answers.  I did find this same tool in a Google search and it is always called a meat tenderizer.  Now, do I keep it or sell it?  What's it worth?

Depends on how tender your meat is.

Quote from: leg17 on February 03, 2013, 10:43:27 AM

Quote from: azdale on February 03, 2013, 09:49:48 AM
Thanks everyone for the answers.  I did find this same tool in a Google search and it is always called a meat tenderizer.  Now, do I keep it or sell it?  What's it worth?

Depends on how tender your meat is.

The older I get, the more tender mine seems to be.

Quote from: Plyerman on February 03, 2013, 12:21:59 PM

Quote from: leg17 on February 03, 2013, 10:43:27 AM

Quote from: azdale on February 03, 2013, 09:49:48 AM
Thanks everyone for the answers.  I did find this same tool in a Google search and it is always called a meat tenderizer.  Now, do I keep it or sell it?  What's it worth?

Depends on how tender your meat is.

The older I get, the more tender mine seems to be.

Tell me about it!

Quote from: azdale on February 03, 2013, 09:49:48 AM
Thanks everyone for the answers.  I did find this same tool in a Google search and it is always called a meat tenderizer.  Now, do I keep it or sell it?  What's it worth?

Given the number of them I've found at estate sales, I'd say it's likely NOT a collectible.  You could look at completed sales on deCay; maybe I'm wrong.