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Sheet metal hammers do look like that but are usually a bit lighter .

My guess that one could have been used on a forge .

cross peen hammer
blacksmith tools

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Blacksm ... SwONBZB0Y0

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Estwing-40-o ... lsrc=aw.ds

Hobbyman2 wrote:Sheet metal hammers do look like that but are usually a bit lighter .

My guess that one could have been used on a forge .

cross peen hammer
blacksmith tools

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Blacksm ... SwONBZB0Y0

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Estwing-40-o ... lsrc=aw.ds

We must be looking at different pictures. The standard claw hammer is normally 16 OZ. The other hammer looks to me to be smaller, or similar weight.

As a reference here is a picture of a claw hammer, 16 OZ next to a 40 OZ hammer.
Ed

Maybe its just my eyes ,,,,


As a young man working sheet metal ,, {they called us duct beaters years ago},, on high rise buildings ,,, I probably pounded a couple miles of metal a few inches at a time with one of these .

http://www.ebay.com/itm/malco-sh3-sheet ... SwY3BZIuAX


The profile is different to some degree, they are made to knock over 3 inches or so of metal seems at a time with the side of the hammer,


Maybe its just the picture or my eyes.

You may be right about the first picture posted on the subject being a sheet metal hammer , after looking again I see what you are saying.


I didn't know there was ever a standard hammer though ?

The claw hammer looks like a finish hammer ,

A 20 oz hammer is usually a framing hammer.

I have one of each ,A FINISH HAMER A FRAMING HAMMER,,,,a sledge hammer,,a sheet metal hammer ,,a auto body hammer and dolly,,, , a long handle sledge ,,,a roofing hatchet that some call a roofing hammer,,,a tack hammer and probably a few more if you count my leather tools .

MAN JUST CANT HAVE ENOUGH HAMMERS!!

The cute little cross peen hammer isn't big enough to be of any use to a blacksmith.

Here is another picture of it in the palm of my hand.
And a close up of the top, there is the number 300 and a makers mark that looks like a forge.
I thought perhaps it was for driving brads and adjusting plane irons when I bought it, along the lines of a Warrington hammer,

However, after a bit of searching on Google, it would appear that it is a German Style Machinists Hammer, in which case the 300 would be the weight in grams, (aprox. 10.5 oz.)

I think you got it .

It looked bigger in the other pictures .

I seen small ones like that years ago in a shoe repair shop.