This is what makes the internet so great - it's like having 24/7 access to a HUGE, weird old library. So here is a Dutch museum of old tools, complete with with photos of some identified and some not, where you can search by trade or shape. So now when you buy that peculiar gadget at a yard sale for $2, you might be able to tell if it was used to trim the nose hairs of oxen, or set kerfs on two-man logging saws.
I'm curious, and interested in things, and admire a tool made to serve a purpose with elegance and/or simplicity. If you are like that (or you just have a strange old mystery tool), you might enjoy the site.
The garden tools section has some dandies, too. Who wouldn't want a garden pulverizer, or a grafting froe, or a grubber? And I've got to get a scuffle hoe, just so I can hang it on pegboard, spray-paint an outline around it, and write "scuffle hoe" in Sharpy marker. Voilá! Decor!
Not all of the site is in English, so unless you have some Dutch you might have to resort to the online translators, which is always amusing, if not informative.
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