Help identifying old cleaver

[A12]

Hi all, any help would be greatly appreciated. Found this knife for a few quid. No handle and no visible markings anywhere.

Sizes: approx 7" tang, 11" blade length, 3.5 - 4.5" blade width. Any other measurements required, let me know.

Just wondering if it's a known brand/style or how old it is etc?

https://imgur.com/a/7LzbLXL

 

[brownshoe]

There’s not anything about the knife to identify a brand. The “style” is cleaver. As to age, it’s old

 

[Delgadonine]

It has a hole which means it was likely stored on a hook. Magnetic storage of utensils started in the 80's-but at the commercial/retail level, not necessarily the personal sector.

It wasn't properly cared for.

It's age or maker can't be determined from a picture.

Did you ask about it from the sellers?

 

[scdub]

Looks like someone beat the daylights out of it with a hammer so it would probably do well as a kindling splitter.

 

[A12]

Thanks everyone for input.

Did you ask about it from the sellers?

I found it on a shelf in a salvage yard, the seller had no clue about it and given the price she put on everything I'd picked up, threw it in for free/ few quid.

Is there anything I can do to better determine an age?

Thanks again

 

[tltt]

No, it would be fruitless. The problem is that while cleaver usage was on the down swing by post WWII, some industrial tool makers still kept a few old patterns around for the trade later. For instance Elwell still cataloged a similar one in 1961 -

And when they show use, it gets much harder. You'd really need a name. The best I'd be willing to commit to is it's probably between very late 1800 - 1960's. Before the very late 1800's full tang cleavers were very rare, before that most used heavy stick tangs. Post WWII, and certainly by the 70's, most of the big cleavers were fading out.