What is the purpose of these three chisels? They are wrapped up in brown paper in the chisel drawer. They might have been purchased to cut a mortise in the front door, but the Porter Cable door lock mortiser did that instead. Anyway the top line says W.Butcher; the second line says "cas" steel, the symbols on the third are a circled b, an arrow with a few feathers, and the Maltese cross, and the bottom line says Sheffield. Though the hand planes all found new homes, the hand saws and chisels still have a home. These sure feel beefy. My great-uncle used to call chisels like this, "pig stickers."

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