Three large NOS cleavers.....

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gben

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From one local estate sale, I guess this guy liked cleavers but never used them, oh well.....

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So cool. I never see anything cool like that arround here. I went to an "antique" shop, and they had little rust lumps for axes at $70 and Chinese knives
 
LUCKY!!!!!
Been looking for a decent carbon cleaver, but always come across S.S. junk. Nice score, for sure
 
Aside from butchering, do you have any use for them? Cleavers like this are usually too thick for anything but butchering or trimming a tree, but if there are other uses for them, I'd love to hear about it. At flea markets I run across these things often, look at them closely and with admiration, then leave them on the table because I think I have no use for them. Please let me know what I'm overlooking.
 
Novaculite said:
Aside from butchering, do you have any use for them?
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I don't have any use for most of the shit laying around here, but when I can get things dirt-cheap or free that I like I buy them, enjoy them and then if I find a good home for them I send them down the road as presents or I make a buck or two, win-win.

If I counted my time running around to sales and thrift shops as part of the price of an object then I could say I had quite a bit in them, but I enjoy it just like some people enjoy golf or gardening so I don't count it at all. I paid a buck a piece for the cleavers, which with the value of the USA dollar these days I pretty much got them for free, who could leave them there??
 
Here I can get them for maybe five or ten bucks, so you win.

BTW, the top cleaver in the first photo has a logo (something of an arrow pointing up) that reminds me of the logo used on items belonging or once belonging to the British military, the so-called broad arrow (http://s73.photobucket.com/user/Gra...b-4ddf-8a34-4c5a23c91051_zps0227da5c.jpg.html). Below that is a second logo, a scythe under an incomplete name. Have any idea who made the thing?
 
Novaculite said:
Have any idea who made the thing?
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That big bastard is an Elwell and it is marked "England" on the other side. The one mark on it looks like the piled-arms that was used on BSA motorcycles and rifles out of England....
 
I am having trouble bringing up this thread sometimes when I click on the kitchen cutlery section....odd.
 
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