December 28, 2025Dec 28 Happy Sunday all, I’ve had this hammer head for a while, and finally took a closer look. I’ve never been sure if it is a straight peen, hot cut, or fuller. I took some white spakle paste and put it in all the noticeable text/symbols. One of them says something then:CAST, but the hammer is antique and looks forge.The peen and face are not perfectly in line with the eye, and the cheeks are uneven. Any idea as to the use, brand, age, symbol meanings, would be lovely. Thanks in advance! Asa
December 28, 2025Dec 28 Good Morning, Give it a Treat, Handle it and use it. Then you will find out what it is good for and how it wears. Neil
December 28, 2025Dec 28 Usually dusting with chalk powder or flour and lightly wiping is good enough to make marks stand out but spakle works and I doubt will be hard to remove. If it were a top tool, say fuller or top cut it would not have the weight stamp. Soooo, it's a hammer. The pein is a useful radius so that's a good maybe. However the other face is an odd shape and not so useful for flattening after the pein forged creases so that puts a - on the fuller ledger. At this point I'd say there's a more than equal chance it's a mason's hammer, used to trim, shape and flatten brick and maybe even stone though it's pretty light for stone work. The word with "cast" looks like it could say Warranted. Peter Wright anvils were marked, "Warranted wrought iron" and the company did a lot more than make anvils. I used to have a Peter Wright hammer before it was rehomed by an EX ass ociate. So in short. It looks like a mason's dressing hammer, maybe made by Peter Wright. That's just my opinion I could be wrong. I have a stone mason's sledge I use CAREFULLY as a 22lb straight pein at the anvil and it works a treat. Frosty The Lucky.
December 28, 2025Dec 28 Author Wow, thanks y’all. I never thought of it being for stone. It is interesting to use, it doesn’t feel very balanced. It has a handle that I need to re-wedge. The handle it quite long. Both the face and the peen are chipped and the face is small. Any ideas as to what that symbol is in the last photo? Here’s the handle.
December 28, 2025Dec 28 No idea but it could be the retailer's mark or perhaps a mason's union or guild. I could be a personal mark of the owner to help keep it from growing legs. Frosty The Lucky.
December 30, 2025Dec 30 If it were mine I’d probably grind a shallow pein on the face and use it as a double pein hammer
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