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Originally Posted by katana
Hi Fernando,
However, yours is a socketted fitting sugesting that this indeed at some time the blade was mounted on a pole or longer handle. Regards David.
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Not all socketed tools had long handles, e.g. English billhooks with sockets from Kent, Hertfordshire and Rutland
Not all socketed tools had any handle fitted at all - the socket was the handle, e.g. French and Italian billhooks from the Alpine regions (Piemonte)...
also those from China and Medieval England:
http://outils-anciens.xooit.fr/t1977...me-curieux.htm
Tools similar to this can be found in the collection of the Dutch Ethnographic Museum (Rijksmuseum) at Leiden:
http://www.rijksmuseum.nl/collectie/