✅ SOLVED Some sort of tool?

[ANTIQUARIAN]

A buddy of mine found this iron relic in Eastern Ontario.
I think this might be some sort of strange tool, it’s stamped David Jones?
It’s 9.25” long by 5/8” wide.
Also found at the same site were 3 Kettle arrow heads, a glass trade bead & a mid 1700s (Wool) lead bale seal.

Any help with an I.D. for this iron relic would be awesome.

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Raider19962]

The tool looks sort of like something a farrier might use for work with horse hoofs and horse shoes.

 

[cactusrat]

The tool looks sort of like something a farrier might use for work with horse hoofs and horse shoes.

Hoof pick.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Thanks very much for your response guys.

If this is a farriers tool, would it be a safe assumption that 'David Jones' was the owner/ maker of the tool?

Dave

 

[creskol]

9.25” long by 5/8” wide would be a mighty hefty hoof pick...I'm not convinced.

 

[GB1]

neat looking tool

 

[Davers]

Thanks very much for your response guys.

If this is a farriers tool, would it be a safe assumption that 'David Jones' was the owner/ maker of the tool?

Dave

Nice finds y'all got .

Oh the tool is mine 'It has my name on it ' lol

 

[cactusrat]

I was not saying the object was a hoof pick. I was saying the words Raider19962 was thinking of.

 

[DCMatt]

Fireplace pot hook?

 

[nhbenz]

Hmm, possibly pirate treasure;

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Jones'_Locker

 

[Reanm8er]

I like the ferries pick idea and it would be about right for large draft horses or oxen, but most of the time you find at least a few horseshoes around. Also that burr on the backend would tear your hand open ruthlessly. Maybe some kind of a carpenter's tool.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Thanks very much for all of your interesting and sometimes comical posts!

I guess this is just one of those relics that we may never know exactly what it is.

Dave

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I like the ferries pick idea and it would be about right for large draft horses or oxen, but most of the time you find at least a few horseshoes around. Also that burr on the backend would tear your hand open ruthlessly. Maybe some kind of a carpenter's tool.

Thank you for sharing your ideas here Priv8ear.

Dave

 

[bowwinkles]

Hoof pick.

I agree with a home made horse shoe nail puller on side.

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I agree with a home made horse shoe nail puller on side.

Thanks very much for your post.

 

[bartholomewroberts]

I initially thought hood pick... but on seeing it further, and thus ruminating on it, I feel
it is not likely to be one Dave.. but I am afraid that I have no ideas as to what it might be.

Best

Micheal

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

I initially thought hoof pick... but on seeing it further, and thus ruminating on it, I feel
it is not likely to be one Dave.. but I am afraid that I have no ideas as to what it might be.

Best

Micheal

Thanks for your insight into this piece Micheal.
You might remember back in October that Ward found this piece on a site in Eastern Ontario.
I offered to post it here to help him get a handle on what it might be.

I doubt we'll ever know what it was really for... likely a specially made tool for some need long ago.

Dave

 

[A2coins]

Cool relic I have a box full of whats its save it some day it will get an ID lol