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Not a joke, sorry. :)

I found this buried in my yard. It's about 4 inches long, made of iron. I soaked it in naval jelly and chipped off most of the rust. If you look close you can see it was sharpened on one side. I tried Google reverse image search, but nothing came up.

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It's about 3.5" to 4" long and about 5/8" to 3/4" thick. Also, the tapered end is really sharpened to a point (I mean it looks like it used to be sharp).
 
Going thru my brain files & things ive seen in my past..... I'm leaning the way pishta is but I believe it belongs to a wood planer or some for of bark removing hatchet.
 
I think Pishta is probably correct, Some form of ax or woodworking tool maybe. Pretty cool regardless.
 
It's an early version of a Doo-Dad.
Some might identify it as a Thingamajig, but that would be incorrect.
Thingamajigs weren't produced before April 1st 1951.
And that item in the photo is much older than that.
And it's definitely not a Gee-Gaw.
Gee-Gaws were first introduced as an option on the 64 1/2 Mustang first unveiled at the World's Fair in New York on April 17th, 1964.
 
It's an early version of a Doo-Dad.
Some might identify it as a Thingamajig, but that would be incorrect.
Thingamajigs weren't produced before April 1st 1951.
And that item in the photo is much older than that.
And it's definitely not a Gee-Gaw.
Gee-Gaws were first introduced as an option on the 64 1/2 Mustang first unveiled at the World's Fair in New York on April 17th, 1964.

You're close it's a primitive Whatchamacallit.
Probably a hold down tool for Circumcision.
 
Wild-azzzzz guess.....along pishta's line of thought...

Mounted on the end of something like a hammer handle to carve out notches in logs for log cabins...
 
Wild-azzzzz guess.....along pishta's line of thought...

Mounted on the end of something like a hammer handle to carve out notches in logs for log cabins...
Agree, angled on a handle it resembles a claw hammer.
 
19th century plow plane blade shim. It sits under the cutting blade and is used to adjust the blade angle of attack and box window opening. It was square on the sharpened edge before corrosion rounded it off.
 
19th century plow plane blade shim. It sits under the cutting blade and is used to adjust the blade angle of attack and box window opening. It was square on the sharpened edge before corrosion rounded it off.
Got a pick of 1 ?
 
Do you have a power pole or telephone pole in your yard? That is an auger tooth off of the big auger on a digger derrick truck that drills the holes in the ground to set the poles. I've changed a many of em in the last 43 years! They are originally square out at the tips, and the outer edges get ground off to a rounded edge just like the one in the pic. You can knock them off the auger and flip them over to put the unground edge that's still square on the outside to get more life out of it. There are usually 6 of them on the auger, plus the pilot bit.
 
Do you have a power pole or telephone pole in your yard? That is an auger tooth off of the big auger on a digger derrick truck that drills the holes in the ground to set the poles. I've changed a many of em in the last 43 years! They are originally square out at the tips, and the outer edges get ground off to a rounded edge just like the one in the pic. You can knock them off the auger and flip them over to put the unground edge that's still square on the outside to get more life out of it.
There are usually 6 of them on the auger, plus the pilot bit.

That makes sense.
 
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