Originally Posted by
IanW
It seems to have quite a bit of pitting - a poor neglected waif before it came into your hands? I recently completed a small 'set' of heavy, plain, tanged chisels (i.e. 101s) and it's surprising how varied they can be. A couple are quite early ones by their stamps, and one is very clean, with hardly a mark on it (although about 1/4 worn down), whereas some much later examples were quite rusted - victims of neglect, I suppose. Nearly all had severely-rounded backs at the cutting edge, due either to being lapped on rounded stones, or more likely sandpaper... :~
Cheers,