This extra-long wooden mallet has steel bands to hold it together. The flea market seller and I were equally ignorant of its original purpose, but research indicates it is an antique caulking mallet, used with a caulking iron to hammer hemp rope between the boards of a wooden ship hull to make it waterproof.
Location: Shelf 13
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