Peter,
Thank you for the slater's tool user manual!!

God bless.

On 4/3/2017 3:06 AM, Peter Marquis-Kyle wrote:
> Nice haul Scott.
>
> In case you haven't already identified it, that 'interesting hammer' 
> looks like a purpose-made roof slater's tool...
>
> The pick is for punching nail holes through the slate (and for marks 
> the face of the slate to show where it needs to be trimmed);
>
> the other end is for driving nails;
>
> the shaft betweed head and handle is used (together with a sort of 
> portable anvil that is driven into a convenient rafter) for cutting 
> slates to size.
>
> (Some similar hammers also have claws on the side of the head, for 
> pulling nails)
>


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