Mystery item, another whatzit?

ObsoElitist · Jan 11, 2016

I picked this up and have no idea what it is.
Cast iron, the face of the "hammer head" is 2.5 inches diameter. The center hole has straight sides, no taper like most hammer heads.

Dalex · Jan 11, 2016

Some kind of hammer head ?

paul · Jan 11, 2016

Was going to link you to another forum on the same object, but I see you have been working on this since 2009 since it is the same object/
pictures!

A puzzle.

Paul

johnlobb · Jan 11, 2016

I see blue paint..must have come from New Jersey or Pennsylvania! Call Larry the cable I mean corner guy!

Stephen Newell · Jan 11, 2016

It looks like the head to a dead blow hammer to me.

ObsoElitist · Jan 11, 2016

(quoted from post at 11:29:57 01/11/16) Was going to link you to another forum on the same object, but I see you have been working on this since 2009 since it is the same object/
pictures!

A puzzle.

Paul

And a good one. I was hoping Farmer's eyes might recognize it. I was cleaning up some crates and found it again. Its not going into the scrap pile, too odd for that The size of the thing is what throws me off it being some kind of hammer, look how big and odd the handle would be. No way it would fit an axe handle.

IaLeo · Jan 11, 2016

Could that have been the head of a trip hammer or a riveting hammer, using a beam instead of the familiar handle? IaLeo

Bret4207 · Jan 11, 2016

I'm thinking it's not a hammer at all, rather that the hammer looking part fits in a hole and slides into a lock of some sort and the other "handle" hole is for a bar or handle to operate whatever it is supposed to operate. I say this because it looks like a a part that fit in an old jack my father in law had, a big sucker he said came off the rail road.

ObsoElitist · Jan 11, 2016

That is possible, Bret. Being made of cast iron pretty much eliminates it as a hammer, and even if thatbwasnt the case, its awful heavy for a head that small

NCWayne · Jan 11, 2016

Looks like half a hammer, so it must be for driving nails that you only want to go half way in.

LesWV · Jan 11, 2016

Sorry.. But that same photo has been all over the web for the past five or six years.

No one has came up with the answer yet.
Here is the same photo from 2009

JMS/.MN · Jan 11, 2016

From the lettering on the side, it must be to squish Brylcream out of the tube.....you know, "Just a little dab will do ya!".

Dr. Walt · Jan 12, 2016

ObsoElitist:

Paul, I'm almost positive that it's NOT a hammer. Look at the picture of a Shoe Last, - compare the shape of the openings, the depth of the opening, and the wall thickness. I think your mystery
item is some kind of a Cobbler's tool that mounts on top of a shoe-last Stand. It may have been used as an "anvil" to clinch over the nail points, back when they used to put Hob Nails on the soles
of shoes & boots; or when nailing on the Heels of the boots or shoes.

Doc

Ian Beale · Jan 12, 2016

Wasn't that a navy comment too?

retired farmer · Jan 12, 2016

I just checked several cobbler tool sites and some antique hammer sites. Nothing comes close.

olddog · Jan 12, 2016

Clue.. the interior of it has paint and scale still in it, like never meant as a handle tool.
GUESS....The "top and bottom" coulda been machined parallel?......
imagine coupla long bolts clamping it to a surface for a stop?

Mike M · Jan 12, 2016

It's a hammer for someone who doesn't make mistakes because you have no way to remove them. LOL.

mazemeister · Jan 12, 2016

i wonder if it belongs in a nautical setting- like bolted down to a dock or deck, the "knob" being used to tie off a rope or line.

ObsoElitist · Jan 12, 2016

I have a few of the Cobblers lasts around, the base is nowhere close. The slot in this thing is 4.5 inches long

Chris(WA) · Jan 13, 2016

Might be a Griblet. Goes on the end of a Mansell...

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