Originally Posted by
clubman
One other of note. My great-great grandpa built wooden ships (barques) in the mid nineteenth century on in Nova Scotia. This hammer was part of a bunch-o-tools passed down the generations. Made by R.Timmins & Sons in Birmingham, they started making tools in 1846.The handle is in serious rough shape but unlikely to be original given the hack installation.
That's quite a bit of history. It seems to me a special privilege to know that about a long-ago relative and also to have something he had.