✅ SOLVED An old hammer or leg to a stove or something?

[Barrydang]

I found this years ago and set it on a fence post and forgot about. Always thought it was a leg to a stove but I’m thinking now maybe it’s an old hammer. Found around an early 1800’s home site.

 

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[Sandog]

Sure looks like a well used hammer with a chisel blade on the back side. Could that projection at the hole possibly be a wedge that has rusted to the head? And yet another possibility would be a blacksmith's tool for cutting iron. Hold the chisel on the redhot iron and hit the backside with a small sledge. The curve may eliminate that second idea.

 

[Barrydang]

Sure looks like a well used hammer with a chisel blade on the back side. Could that projection at the hole possibly be a wedge that has rusted to the head? And yet another possibility would be a blacksmith's tool for cutting iron. Hold the chisel on the redhot iron and hit the backside with a small sledge. The curve may eliminate that second idea.

That small peice sticking up is from when the hole was punched through as far as I can tell.

 

[pepperj]

That's a real crude looking.....

The tool certainly looks like it hand forged.

The hammer marks on the sides.
It's been well used, by receiving many blows.

Now for what purpose?
Cutting iron is a possibility.
A handle was attached through the hole.

The curve might of happened because of weakened mid section bending from the repeated blows.

Probably one of the crudest looking tools posted also very likable.
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[ColorfulCreator]

Do you know what kind of metal that it is madd of? Would then it be hard enough to use as a hammer?

 

[ColorfulCreator]

If a nail is driven through the hole and it is lined up with a window or doorway, couldn't it be used to block across the door edge to stop it from swinging in one particular direction on it's hinges.

 

[Barrydang]

Do you know what kind of metal that it is madd of? Would then it be hard enough to use as a hammer.

Exact composition I couldn’t tell you but I figure it to be made of steel

 

[ncsuwolf]

I’m agreeing (partially) with previous posters. Based on the mushroom, that’s some sort of blacksmith tool. I have a “wedge” that looks almost identical

 

[Almy]

I think it is a mason's hammer that was used a a wedge for splitting wood. The blows that mushroomed the head also bent it it at its weakest place, the hole that had previously been used for a handle.

 

[Sandog]

Although I certainly have no expertise, or knowledge, of these things, I would think that only striking it against metal would produce that mushrooming. Unless it were really a softer grade of iron itself. Which may indicate some age?

 

[wildpig]

Blacksmith hot cut hammer