After combing through rusty piles of unloved apparatuses from years past, in shops dedicated to all things decrepit and threadbare, I'll post here the gems I unearth for resurrection and reinstatement. Brought back from their long slumber just in time before succumbing irrevocably to the inexorable invasion from their natural enemies: air and water.
Someone re-handled this thing with something that wasn’t up to the task of being pounded on. This catalog page from 1923 shows the two ways the handle would’ve…