✅ SOLVED Vintage Kitchen Tool ???

[Mine Shaft]

Here's a good one lol. My wife's parents collected a lot of Antique kitchen stuff, not sure what the heck it is . Any way the wood handle is 1 1/4" Dia, over all length is 6" By the way its from Pennsylvania. Thanks for any info.

 

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[cudamark]

Looks like an add-on handle for a broom or other item with a round shaft. Twist the wooden hand to tighten/loosen the metal strap.

 

[DCMatt]

Coiler tool for making pottery?

 

[luke_00]

Mowing scythe handle?

 

[Mine Shaft]

Both object's look similar but not sure it's that. This tool is from the 18 hundreds. also the circle measures 1 1/2" Something might be missing from this item. The 2 cradled indents might of held something ?

 

[Red-Coat]

I believe that's a "scythe nib".



From the link below:
"Up until the mid 19th century, American scythes had used the English method of affixing their nibs: an iron loop was fastened to the shaft of the snath by means of a wedge driven between the loop and the snath itself. While this allowed the nibs to be positioned at will along the snath, the wedges were prone to working their way loose at inconvenient moments, and in the industrial boom of the mid-1800’s a number of innovations were made in the means of fastening nibs. The most notable of these is the method that eventually became the standard: the so-called “Clapp’s Patent” nib. Patented in 1838 by Joseph and Erasmus S. Clapp of Montague, Massachusetts, it was the first nib known to bear the form that we see so commonly today on almost all snaths, both new and vintage. The nibs made currently by Seymour Midwest Tools are effectively of the same fundamental design."

The First Modern American Scythe Nibs | The Baryonyx Blog

 

[Red-Coat]

The Clapp scythe patent expired in 1855, after which others would be free to use the design. The design utilised an earlier patent for the nib itself, filed by Dexter Pierce in 1837 but then assigned to a number of people. That patent would have expired in 1854.

 

[GDub62]

When you said kitchen stuff I was thinking potato peeler

 

[Mine Shaft]

You nailed it Luke lol thank you, the one you showed i thought was to modern.

 

[Mine Shaft]

I believe that's a "scythe nib".

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From the link below:
"Up until the mid 19th century, American scythes had used the English method of affixing their nibs: an iron loop was fastened to the shaft of the snath by means of a wedge driven between the loop and the snath itself. While this allowed the nibs to be positioned at will along the snath, the wedges were prone to working their way loose at inconvenient moments, and in the industrial boom of the mid-1800’s a number of innovations were made in the means of fastening nibs. The most notable of these is the method that eventually became the standard: the so-called “Clapp’s Patent” nib. Patented in 1838 by Joseph and Erasmus S. Clapp of Montague, Massachusetts, it was the first nib known to bear the form that we see so commonly today on almost all snaths, both new and vintage. The nibs made currently by Seymour Midwest Tools are effectively of the same fundamental design."

The First Modern American Scythe Nibs | The Baryonyx Blog

Hi Red-Coat thank you for sharing all the info on this Vintage item. Now i know and will mark it solved. thanks you guys.

 

[Mine Shaft]

Do the mods mark this "Solved" ? thank you.