two more mystery tools

[nz44tool]

You GJ folks have been really great at supplying info for the odd tools I find.
Here's a couple more:
The first one is some sort of cutting tool from the Harrington Company of Southbridge, MA. Does anyone know what that oddly-formed blade was intended to do?
Also - the stamp on the blade is T. Harrington, not H. or D. , which I gather are well-known to cutlery people. Probably another son, but I've yet to see any mention of him anywhere.

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The second one is this very old hammer. What strikes me (haha) is the iron-bound handle; doesn't seem like a handmade item, so I wonder if anyone has info on who would have made this, and how old it might be.

Thanks for any help.

 

[cvairwerks]

Looks like a farrier's knife.....

 

[nz44tool]

Looks like a farrier's knife.....

Thanks, cvairwerks - something for cleaning horses' hooves prior to shoeing? Sounds plausible.
- I just looked up farrier's knives - it does look like a version of what is sold now.

 

[crguy]

You GJ folks have been really great at supplying info for the odd tools I find.
Here's a couple more:
The first one is some sort of cutting tool from the Harrington Company of Southbridge, MA. Does anyone know what that oddly-formed blade was intended to do?
Also - the stamp on the blade is T. Harrington, not H. or D. , which I gather are well-known to cutlery people. Probably another son, but I've yet to see any mention of him anywhere.

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The second one is this very old hammer. What strikes me (haha) is the iron-bound handle; doesn't seem like a handmade item, so I wonder if anyone has info on who would have made this, and how old it might be.

Thanks for any help.

If you Google strapped hammer, you will find others.

 

[nz44tool]

If you Google strapped hammer, you will find others.

Thanks, crguy - I was aware of strapped hammers, just hadn't seen one quite like this - it's kinda crude-looking compared to many of the rest.

 

[DetailSeeker]

Looking for strapped hammers, most of the ones I saw had straps as part of the head that came down around the sides of the shaft.

I did see a few that had metal banding on the front and back of the shaft going up through the head. One was a Mutzig-Framont hammer being sold on eBay (the company was in Germany and then briefly in France, ~1870-1930), and the other was a hand-forged one on the Jim Bode site and was simply labelled "ancient". And there's a pair of strapped hammers here which include one of each style.

An image search on antique strapped hammer Canada or ASH America or ASH Germany mostly shows regular strapped hammers; one for antique strapped hammer France shows both kinds.

So as a completely uninformed image-poker, if I had to guess it would be "100+ years old, home-made in a French-ish style"? It's not definitive or anything, it's just like the time I spent too long staring at pictures of wooden levels until I noticed that the European ones tended to have round or oval brass caps insert over the vials, and the English and North American ones tended to have brass plates that went to the sides and were screwed in.

Frances

 

[nz44tool]

Thanks, DetailSeeker - I hadn't seen any of those images.
Certainly are a lot of versions of "strapped" hammers! But I still haven't seen one like mine (which I sold a while back).
Thanks for your input!

 

[paulsomlo]

You GJ folks have been really great at supplying info for the odd tools I find.

It's great that you're finding good homes for these old tools via your ebay store, but Garage Journal has much more to offer than "what is it", "how old is it", and "who made it". We're quite a diverse group here - no matter what your interest, there's someone here who shares it; we have plumbers, electricians, auto mechanics, carpenters, welders, industrial mechanics, machinists, software programmers, engineers, etc. - there are guys here who could make a radio out of a coconut, turn a pile of scrap metal into a Mona Lisa. There are plenty of members here who share your interest in old tools, I'm sure your contributions will be welcome.