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This shovel was found in a barn I cleaned out for my girlfriend she inherited after her parents passed. It was with some other custom crevacing tools.
Her grandfather was a mule skinner and blacksmith in the gold rush logging town of Pino Grand and was murdered when his son fooled around with another mans lady. Well the guy came drunk waiving a gun and her grandfather took the bullet. Inside one on the steamer trunks we found his blood soaked matted up coveralls.
I have never seen a clam shell shovel like this before and it may be his handy work!
Has anyone here seen one like this before? Its next to a 8 foot piece of plywood and itself is about 8 foot 9 inches long.
The handle is thick and strong even though it may be over a hundred years old.
Thanks for any Info.
Jim
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This shovel was found in a barn I cleaned out for my girlfriend she inherited after her parents passed. It was with some other custom crevacing tools.
Her grandfather was a mule skinner and blacksmith in the gold rush logging town of Pino Grand and was murdered when his son fooled around with another mans lady. Well the guy came drunk waiving a gun and her grandfather took the bullet. Inside one on the steamer trunks we found his blood soaked matted up coveralls.
I have never seen a clam shell shovel like this before and it may be his handy work!
Has anyone here seen one like this before? Its next to a 8 foot piece of plywood and itself is about 8 foot 9 inches long.
The handle is thick and strong even though it may be over a hundred years old.
Thanks for any Info.
Jim