Ray Gardiner wrote:

> The seller, seems to think it was for carving a spiral, that's  
> plausible,
> but the price is way too high... (unless I'm not seeing something)

GG

If you look at the business end of the chisel - that is all that was  
needed for the job - spiral or not.  A craftsman would have to be  
pretty hard up to alter a nice big expensive fishtail to a partial  
sweep that he probably already had in the box.  Notice the oval  
handle for control - my bet is that he hit it hard enough with a  
mallet that he both broke the edge and broke the handle,

Ed Minch
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