Need Advice on odd ball British Army Flea Market item. Time sensitive.

[Aragorn243]

Found this today, can't find a thing on it. Price seems way too high for a sledgehammer but if it is what they claim it is, it is interesting.

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[browningautorifle]

I think it's just what you see, a crossface sledge. Yes, we had issue tools for armor but usually later tools were local off the shelf purchase. For hammering out track pins and such needs a longer reach than a standard hammer.

[Aragorn243]

So it isn't worth anywhere near $85 then, didn't think so. I figured about $20-$30 personally.

[browningautorifle]

I figured about $20-$30 personally.

I wouldn't pay huge. The markings are nice but not that nice. It's a surplus sledge.

[Flying10uk]

I've got several similar ex WD sledge hammers but I haven't bothered to check the dates to see if they are wartime or not. Things such as this continued to be made after WW2, into the 1950's, like the "British Army Spade/Shovel" to exactly the same design as it was in WW2 but with a WW2 date it is much more desirable. Armoured vehicles carried them like they carried a spade/shovel and other tools but it was also used for other applications that required a sledge hammer.

I would have thought on your side of the pond, if the handle is reasonably good, about half the asking price because there probably isn't many of them in the US and it's WW2 dated.

[Bob Womack]

I grew up here in the U.S. with with a U.S. Army sledgehammer in the house, painted green, even. I think my father paid perhaps $3 for it, without the story. What is it they say? "Buy the gun, not the story."

Bob

[Aragorn243]

I've got several similar ex WD sledge hammers but I haven't bothered to check the dates to see if they are wartime or not. Things such as this continued to be made after WW2, into the 1950's, like the "British Army Shovel" to exactly the same design as it was in WW2 but with a WW2 date it is much more desirable. Armoured vehicles carried them like they carried a shovel and other tools but it was also used for other applications that required a sledge hammer.

I would have thought on your side of the pond, if the handle is reasonably good, about half the asking price because there probably isn't many of them in the US and it's WW2 dated.

If it were $30 or maybe even $40 I'd bring it home just for the cool factor plus it's in great shape but at $85, it's way out of line. It really isn't a flea market, it's an occasional antique shop that's only open two days a week and looks like a flea market. I've caught her with other way out of line items, bayonets in particular. She has no idea what things are worth I think and is easily talked into spending way too much for them and then she has to recoup what she spent.

[Flying10uk]

The other tool that British armoured vehicles use to carry was a pickaxe. If the antique shop owner gets one of those in stock I'm not sure what alternative use or "enhanced use" can be thought up for it to help "promote it's sale" other than "just a pickaxe".

[browningautorifle]

I think she's wrapped around the marking.