Removable axe wedge

[Liberatus1]

There used to be a hardware store here that never re-priced the old items. It always paid off to look at the back of the stack for the older stock. I bought a hi-lift jack out of a row of them with three different prices.

Good way to incent customers to rotate your stock. Hopefully this was a strategy to lower payroll costs.

 

[Steve Tall]

Back in 1906, similar types of wedges were made by the Sawyer Belt Hook Co. of New York: