IsIt?

I bought this w/ another shovel at an auction awhile back. being a young guy, i don't know exactly what it's for, i've got some ideas, but nothing firm. alot of older guys at the auction complemented me on the buy, w/ comments like "you don't see those much any more" but that still doesn't ID it for me. any help would be great.

That is a tile spade, used to dig a trench in wet contitions. Less metal for the mud to stick to.

Rick

i have been in some places where this would have been handy. my dad has some almost swamp land that we kept trying to drain, too wet for equipment, so we did it w/ a spade. its not enough just to dig a ditch, but to dig the dirt(mud) then try to dig that old sticky gray/black gumbo muck of a shovel to take another scoop made some long days.