pitch pine
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Any ideas? I don't think it is for woodworking. It's a bit like a very small froe on a stick with a posh handle. No makers marks and looks like the metal work has been done by a blacksmith.
Thanks for your help.
Alan Smith":pieh8otk said:It's called a docking iron. Depending on size they were heated and used to cauterise the cut surface of a tail stump when a horse or lamb was docked.
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