✅ SOLVED hammer yard sale

[streakert]

No markings can anyone help w age and make.

 

[nhbenz]

Picture?

 

[streakert]

No markings can anyone help w age and make.

 

[streakert]

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14" long looks like cast steel it has a seam down the side the two wood handles and riveted with copper pins

 

[nhbenz]

Multi-tool, as seen here: Multi Purpose Hatchet Hammer Pry Tool - The Axe Hole - Multitool.org
It looks a lot like the ones made by Bridgeport.
A good construction tool, and also widely used by folks who crate/un-crate cargo.

 

[fmfdoc]

Carpenter's Hatchet. By the looks of the capped-wooden handle, I'd guess it was made by Western. My dad has one, which he got from his Grandfather, and it is almost identicle to this one. Dad's was made in the 20's, and was purchased as a farm-tool.

 

[BosnMate]

I've seen them before, but not lately.

 

[Tony in SC]

Old roofing hatchet. Tony

 

[clovis97]

nhbenz is correct. It is a tool used by crate builders or for opening up wood crates.

Once upon a time, wood crates were widely used for shipping. During the 1910's, through the 1930's (and probably longer than that), Ford Motor Company had entire departments of crate builders, and entire departments of crate openers. Ford even had a department that salvaged lumber and nails out of the crates. The lumber went to the crate building department, and the scrap nails were sent to the steel furnaces for the making of new steel.

 

[streakert]

thank you all for the info, i will repost this solved,,