How old is this?

[w0otiez]

Found this hammer head detecting my new house. Anyone know how old this hammer head might be along with what sort of hammer it was?

 

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[creskol]

Hard to tell how old it is, but it looks like a cobbler's hammer to me.

 

[Joe-Dirt]

He sure did get his money’s worth out of it, that thing is slammed flat, cool find

 

[invent4hir]

Hard to tell how old it is, but it looks like a cobbler's hammer to me.

Agree w/ creskol that it is a cobbler's (or possibly bookbinder's) hammer - they look similar. The one I found last year dates to mid-late 19th C, as that is what my research shows a shoe shop operated on the property. You may want to research your property to see if a former owner repaired shoes...

 

[Reanm8er]

Nice find W0otiez! Is it my imagination that the head shows signs of mushrooming? If so it may have been used by a blacksmith
as a forming tool or hot chisel. Might still have been made to be a cobbler's hammer, just repurposed?

 

[gunsil]

The head on cobblers' hammers looks like the one here, it has not been mushroomed out.

 

[Tony in SC]

Coddler's hammer, late 1800's my guess. My dad was a cobbler, some of the older hammers had a straighter tang like that one.