🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Old brass woodworking punches?

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This came from an old carpenter’s tool chest I believe. It’s roughly 4” wide and 4” tall with a slip-on wooden cap. The medal ‘punches’ are brass.
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Been a carpenter all my life, No way these are used for wood. They would deteriorate in no time. Howver I have seen brass punches like this used for working leather often.
 

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Been a carpenter all my life, No way these are used for wood. They would deteriorate in no time. Howver I have seen brass punches like this used for working leather often.
Again... they are not punches.
 

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creskol

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Been a carpenter all my life, No way these are used for wood. They would deteriorate in no time. Howver I have seen brass punches like this used for working leather often.
I have too, but they are not punches one would abuse, but used as drift punches .. we call them drift pins used for alignment purposes and not as a driving punch.
 

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