✅ SOLVED If its not a chisel, what could it be?

[Ammoman]

I found this Chisel looking thing this past weekend and i am not having any luck identifying it.

I looked up wood splitting tools but it is too thin. All the chisels i have seen have a handle and all the axe heads that look like this have a place to put a handle.

Any Ideas on its age and what it might be called or used for?

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

Ice spud?

Also possibly it was mounted on a shaft to strip bark for leather tanning or prior to sawing.

 

[Ammoman]

i looked up Ice spuds and they all have long handles attached to them. This tool is meant to be held by hand and hit with a hammer to do some sort of cutting on what i presume would be wood.

 

[SkaBa]

Stone Mason's Chisel

 

[Old Pueblo]

I think SkaBa got it. If you see here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8x-stone-masons-chisels-vintage-/263356927399, there are a few old English examples.

 

[Old Pueblo]

This is a good piece of early Americana, and it could be very old. The English, including our colonial ancestors, loved their stone work.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

i looked up Ice spuds and they all have long handles attached to them. This tool is meant to be held by hand and hit with a hammer to do some sort of cutting on what i presume would be wood.

Sorry - I thought I was seeing a socket on the round end.

 

[nsdq]

Mid 1800s stone cutters chisel

 

[Ammoman]

Thanks everyone for the help. I was not even thinking Stone...i did come across a few pictures of old caulking tools for pushing cotton between the planks when making boats. I am inclined to believe its for stone masonry given it was found in central nc.

 

[relic nut]

Stone Mason's Chisel

Good ID, I think the proper name is a "Brickset" they are still used today.

 

[RobRieman]

I found one very similar that looked to be forged from a railroad spike. It was near a very elaborate chiseled stone chimney from a long gone log cabin. I also think stone mason chisel.