Hammer Head
Description
Dark Brown metal hammer head. One end is blunt, the other is flattened. Also has a hole in the base where the handle would go, with a section of wood still inside. A cooper’s hammer.
This Copper alloy hammer head would once have had a wooden shaft. It would have been used in conjunction with a copper alloy cooper’s tool to ‘knock-down’ or remove the hazel and copper hoops from the powder barrels and dismantle them after their contents had been transferred to the magazine powder box. Copper alloy tools were used by the ships cooper and were employed when working with gun powder barrels as it was important not to create sparks. Hence, copper alloy tools, which are non-sparking, were commonly used in potentially combustible environments.
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Object Detail
Width: 47mm
Depth: 50mm (1 15/16")