Great Car Boot find: Blacksmith's tool

[IainP]

I picked this out from a bucket of rusty tools at a car boot recently. Not very pretty but a bargain at £2, weighing almost a kilogram (first 2 pictures). Leave it in a bath of white vinegar for 2 days though, take a drill to it with a rotary wire brush atttachment and it becomes...something rather beautiful; a vintage blacksmith's solid copper head soldering iron!
Iain

 

[Apache3057]

Awesome piece!

 

[woody 73]

Well worth the price.

 

[warden]

Nice soldering iron , I'm old tin knocker we would use that type iron for vertical soldering, Great fine it looks like a 2 lb. iron