Piece Esquilles

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French term for Splitting Wedge. Dr. Gramley ID'd this as one when I showed it to him after a talk he gave.

Another Tom Davis junk box treasure find from many years ago. Tennessee or Kentucky, I'd guess.

Notice the heavy edge battering.

 

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The other side

 

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That looks like a fairly common material / item here in Tennessee. We always called them blanks. But now we know better