Thread: Does anybody know what this is?

I found the tool of the pictures attached at an estate sale.
I thought it had to do with shoes or boots as I could see it was make in Brockton Ma, which was the shoe manufacturing capitol of the world in the early industrial age.
When I looked up the name HM Christensen it all has to do with razors and shaving.
Any info would be great!!

Maybe it's an early version of the Goatee saver.....

That's a mouth guard. You hold it over your mouth and shave around it. What you now must do is use it in that way, and post pics back here so we can see how it works.



James.

Possibly a stamp for leather strops, the plate could be missing??
The handle is cracked from a mallet, during the stamping process???

Loos like a branding iron to me.

Is a spielbrocken,very common item.

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

Loos like a branding iron to me.

that was gonna be my guess also !!

To short for branding.. And has a wood handle.. I was thinking a keg stamp with the stamp part missing?

I'm going with door #1, The leather strop stamp.

? Definitely some type of stamp. Totally agree with the handle looking like having been hit with something, and the radius on the end looks like it had some sort of die in it to either punch out a shape, or stamp something.
Maybe it picked up a "hot" cutting stamp?