Axe head!

[Hvactech19]

A little help on identifying please!

I know there?s a maker called plumb, but it definitely looks like p.lump to me 🤷*♂️

 

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[BAW]

This is actually a blacksmith's hot chisel. It was fitted with a handle and held against a piece of heated metal, then struck with a hammer. The thinness of its cutting blade differentiates it from a blacksmiths cold chisel, which also has a hole for a handle but is much thicker in order to stand up to harder pounding with the hammer, and is shaped almost like a splitting wedge.

 

[Almy]

I'm thinking it could be a mason's hammer, although any I have seen have the blade perpendicular to the handle rather than parallel with the handle like this one. Maybe this one is a blacksmith's hammer. Any Plumb company mark I have seen on a tool has more ornate lettering than what is on this tool head. You have a neat find there!

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!!! Congrats!!!!