captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

What sort of object is this on? That might help a bit.

Hatchet. The firefighting kind.

It’d have to be very old, if it’s firefighting equipment.

My dad was a fireman in the 1960s, and their hatchets had steel shafts even then.

Well There’s always room ffor random guesses to be wrong.