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15 hours ago, se7enthdevil said:

am i the only one thinking that this could have been used in the slaughter house rather than for any form of forestry???

Unlikely, slaughter works are (were) done with a captive bolt or spike. Something bludgeonesque like that would also be a liability for dismembering, google "farriers axe" to see what that implement would look like

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I think its someones 20th century attempt at an earlier period executioners axe.

It has the weight and the depth of throat needed for a one blow decapitation.

 

I don't think it has any great age to because the socket looks to be tube and arc welded, a couple of hundred years earlier it would most likely have been rolled and forge welded, nice wall hanger though.

 

 

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