On Oct 23, 10:14*am, "john d hamilton" wrote:
Helping to clear out an old garden shed in London u.k., we found this
cleaver.

Its pretty ancient probably from about 1910 or so.

Some think it's a woodworking tool or similar, and others think its a
butchers cleaver, although some think not, because butchers cleavers are
usually much bigger and you can see from the photo it's really quite small.
it also has the number 6 stamped on the blade. * anyone any idea what its
original purpose was likely to be? * thanks.

photo on tinypic website:http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=33y5a9u&s=4

Looks like a cleaver to me. It would be very useful for chopping up a
chicken, for instance, or ribs or something - much bigger, and it
would be pretty heavy, no?

I can't think of anything it could do as a woodworking tool that a
better, smaller tool couldn't do better.

N.