🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Little help identifying

[Pikeslumber]

Hello. I'm wondering if anyone might know what type of hammer/mallet this might be and approximate age? I obviously stuck a new handle in it but I found the head in a hay field that I was told used to be a horse farm. Thanks in advance

 

[russau]

.I.D. ? It looks like it is made of a soft material on the head portion and if it were found in a hay feild it may have been used as some sort of a tool for farming use , or it could of just been on the hay trailer and fell off anyway yu look at it ,it is a nice find ! Many years ago I found a similar Lead filled Copper hammer that had similar use on the head of it but I don't know "who,what, why,about it also !

 

[Red-Coat]

Looks like it might be a 'rawhide-mallet', used when you want to avoid denting or damaging what you're hammering. It's the kind of thing someone might use for leather-working (saddlery, harness-making or whatever).

 

[ncsuwolf]

Looks like it might be a 'rawhide-mallet', used when you want to avoid denting or damaging what you're hammering. It's the kind of thing someone might use for leather-working (saddlery, harness-making or whatever).

I’d say it’s a brass hammer. Date….no idea. Red coat is right, you use a brass hammer when you don’t want to damage what you’re striking.

 

[The Bushwhacker Detectorist]

do you know the material? Because it looks like the color of the scuff marks are powdery white like old lead.

 

[Digger54]

You also use a brass/bronze hammer when working an environment where you want to avoid sparks. However, my first impression is a leather tool as Red-Coat suggested.

Tough to narrow down age as tools are also passed down from generation to generation.

 

[Sandog]

The edges look too peened over to have been used on leather, unless it is really soft metal. My leather working mallets are wood and weighted nylon plastic. Maybe a hammer for working sheet metal. Could also be what I call a fine adjustment tool, lol. Does it seem unusually heavy for it's size?

 

[ticndig]

I agree, no spark hammer still made today.

 

[ncsuwolf]

You also use a brass/bronze hammer when working an environment where you want to avoid sparks. However, my first impression is a leather tool as Red-Coat suggested.

Tough to narrow down age as tools are also passed down from generation to generation.

Agreed. The no spark benefits are usually in an area where an explosion is possible/imminent (think flour mill or refinery). A brass hammer on a farm 100+ yrs ago was use for the same thing as today….”adjusting” finely fitted items (wheel bearings, etc). Based on the mushrooming, it was not used on leather.

Regardless… it’s a cool find, and I appreciate you installing a new handle. It’s good to go for the next 100 years of “gentle adjustment”

 

[Mine Shaft]

From the looks of where it is struck I would call it a Dead Blow Hammer.

 

[Pikeslumber]

Thanks for all the responses. I'm thinking brass. It's 13.5 ounces and it has a weak magnetic attraction.

 

[Gare]

Pikes keep us posted

 

[k0bgalan]

I keep seeing this, and wonder if it is a tire hammer? That is the hammer used to R&R race car wheels.

 

[traveller777]

Looks like it might be a 'rawhide-mallet', used when you want to avoid denting or damaging what you're hammering. It's the kind of thing someone might use for leather-working (saddlery, harness-making or whatever).

Mr. Red Coat is correct in my humble opinion. Leather work, during finish stages.