Tool, Slasher, Unknown

Physical description

A hand slasher with a long wooden handle and a heavy sharp steel rectangular blade attached with rivets to the handle. It was efficient for clearing thin and dense low-lying scrub, ferns or bush where an axe would be too clumsy.

Inscriptions & markings

'232205' is stamped on the flat blade but the writing is Indiscernible.

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