Any help with ID ing this tool please

[BILLy]

Hi
Picked this up at boot sale, thought it might come in handy for something.
Can anyone tell me what it was made for?
Cheers
Bill

 

[Niels]

It looks like a handdrill of some sort to me

 

[mountainm]

Seed dibber?

 

[Robbi]

Seed dibber?

i thought that but then thought it could be a cheese checker / taster thing

 

[BILLy]

i thought that but then thought it could be a cheese checker / taster thing

Cheese checker? ermm, could be
more pics

 

[munkiboi182]

could be an auger, dont know much about cheese checkers

 

[Robbi]

any markings at all on it ?

 

[launditch1]

Its an old tool used by Plumbers to ream a circular hole in pipes so you can branch off another pipe and then solder it on.This is from the days when water pipes were lead.

 

[Robbi]

hey ! nice one

 

[BILLy]

any markings at all on it ?

only the ones in the first post, but there hard to see
Cheers
Bill

 

[fishfish]

i was about to say reamer of some kind,launditch1 .