Assembled Galoots:

I recently spent a pleasant day at Waterloo Village, which is a preserved Morris
Canal town, now owned by the State of New Jersey and run basically as a museum.
It’s nice place, staffed mostly with volunteers.

At the Carpenter shop, the docent pointed out this tool and said they’d been
unable to identify it:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/146046409@N.../albums/72157709602315861

I promised that I’d post it to the Porch, and revert with any information we can
come up with.

No maker’s marks which I can see.

It didn’t appear to be a heat-branding iron, which was my first guess.

It appears to be more like a scorp than anything else.

Can anyone ID it?  If a reference can be provided, so much the better.

The mere fact that it is resident in a canal town museum is not proof that it
was ever used in Waterloo Village, as this site was previously privately owned
and operated as a Living History museum which accepted donations. Therefore, it
may have no connection whatsoever with Waterloo Village.

Looking forward to your responses.

John Ruth
Metuchen, NJ



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