Help me find out what this is and what it is worth?

[Maggot]

Picked this up at a local garage sale, I bought it because it was neat looking and I have never seen one like it. It folds up with the hook over the hammer part.

The marking is B.B. WELLS WEST STRAND

 

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[bartholomewroberts]

It MIGHT possibly be an old hoof pick for horses. The hook part is the actual hoof pick. The hammer aspect could be used, in an emergency situation, to re-set cliches on the horseshoes.

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Bartholomewroberts

 

[diggummup]

It MIGHT possibly be an old hoof pick for horses. The hook part is the actual hoof pick. The hammer aspect could be used, in an emergency situation, to re-set cliches on the horseshoes.

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Bartholomewroberts

I agree. It's English made, dates to around 1850's to 1900, from what I can find out.
According to GOINS' ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CUTLERY MARKINGS, "B.B.
WELLS RAZOR MAKER WEST STRAND g 1875-1900"

Plus in the 1852 English census, from one of the genealogy sites,
there were a number of Wells names in Sheffield, a couple of families
of which were makers of tableware or general steel makers

Value around $25-$40, but that's just a guess. They made straight razors and corkscrews and multi-tools and who knows what else.

 

[eldorado]

bb wells got his start making razors for the civil war,, his family got into ranching and cattle, latter in life, what you have is a bull/cinch. the hammer end goes into a bulls rectum, and you hook the other end into a fencepost, and it is a cinch that the bull is not going anywhere. foflmao

 

[creeper71]

bb wells got his start making razors for the civil war,, his family got into ranching and cattle, latter in life, what you have is a bull/cinch. the hammer end goes into a bulls rectum, and you hook the other end into a fencepost, and it is a cinch that the bull is not going anywhere. foflmao

sounds like a very cruel tool