Peck, Stow, and Wilcox 10-oz straight-pein hammer

Description

This straight-pein hammer has the original handle (with a few paint drips, as you can see).  The most interesting thing is the faint manufacturer’s mark: “Peck, Stow / East Berlin Connecticut”.  The Wilcox name is missing.  At a guess, that would date this hammer to the early 1870s, when the Peck, Stow and Wilcox merger was new.  A century and a half is not a bad lifespan for a hammer.