A widowed neighbor found this one cleaning out her garage Looks like a hammer head to me, marked "DHB", 85, "4HT". Head still has a casting seam across it. Funny web across top of handle hole, not wedged to split handle though. It is 6.5 inches long, 4 inches high, the face is 2 inches in diameter, it will hold a 7/8 x 3 and 1/8 handle and weighs over 6 Lbs. Any ideas what it might be?
blade on the end opposite the hammer head. I wonder if that one once had a similar blade?
Jon
We use to call those "yard sticks", it looks normal wonder why it weighs so much? Whats that other thing?
LLB
Hammers are rarely cast, there either wrought iron with crucible steel ends fire welded on, generally before the Bessemer steel process of
1860/70. made steel easily and cheaply available.Then after that date cast steel was used.Then hot drop forged up to today to make hammer heads.
The item in question could be cast iron , then its likely to be some other item , like railway wagon iron component, even tho it has a resemblance to a hammer head.
You should be able to tell quite easily if its steel or cast iron . If steel it still might not be a hammer head.
Tap it with a hammer and if steel it should ring, if cast iron it will have a dull sound
Just a few thoughts on hammers and their history.
Ted Dorset UK
What other thing? the yardstick? It is cast iron.
I emailed Mr. Dave Pahl
-DG
Thank you. If it helps, this area has a history heavy in Logging and Gold Mining.
Is it possibly hardware from a boat? ("DAB" + blue paint) Just a SWAG. It looks like the part held up a boart or stick with rounded edges -- the web inside the cast part would prevent the board from dropping down.
Im still trying to think what its designed for. Ill say again one needs to find out if its steel or cast iron. The easiest way to do this is to take a file to the hammer head face if it dead hard then its steel. When youve that answer one might make some progess in identifying its use. Now if its a hammer head in steel, what would one want such a shape for? if one was rivetting up say a square tank one would normally have the dolly on the inside with the hammer on the outside to set the rivets. However if one was say rivetting up 2 pieces of angle on either side of a flat sheet to make a "T" section one would need a hammer that was very narrow to get close enough to the corner of the angle. You say that there is some casting flame on theside? well if its stel it will be forged and whsat you see is the flash from the hot forging in the dies.
Let us know what you identify the metal to be. Ted Dorset UK
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