What Is It? game 239 - Neatorama

Once again, it's time for our collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Do you know what the object in this picture is? You can win even if you don't know!

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will each win a T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?

Check out the What Is It? Blog for more clues. Good luck!

Update: the little hatchet-looking thing is actually a cigar box opener. The notch is for removing nails. The first commenter who knew that was just a guess, who wins a t-shirt from the NeatoShop! The real clue was at the What Is It? blog, where you'd read that it was only a few inches long. The funniest answer was from GlenW, who said, "Years after George Washington became famous for chopping down that cherry tree his less known cousin Hank started making and selling these as souvenirs to tourists at The White House during Washington's presidency." For that, he also wins a t-shirt! Find out the answers to all the mystery items of the week at the What Is It? blog, and stay tuned for the next What Is It? game at Neatorama.

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Jeweler's hammer.

Inside every older person XL

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It is so small and sweet it’s got to be a candy hatchet!

but dont ask me it is is Woodwards’s or CANDY CO.

All your base (Chemistry) ladie’s fit M white

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Wooden template for hatchet production. (Powered by caffine please)

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I believe it is a miniture shingle hammer
Schrondingers bet XL
Craig Clayton

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Roofing Hammer
PB Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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This hatchet was used to open Cigar Boxes. It would pry the lid open, pull the nail, then hammer the nail back in.
Neatoramabot XL Blue

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aka Roofing Hatchet
PB Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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Sheetrock Hammer (aka Drywall Hammer)

Chess Nerd Natural L

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It's Wikileaks mascot. Their theme song is "If Only I had a Hammer"
PB Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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The most manly tool ever! Hammer, Axe, Bottle opener combo

The body tuxedo M

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Antique Cast Iron Toy Hatchet

NeatoBot Walking Large Navy

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It's a Rig (Rigging) Axe also known as a Carpenter’s Hatchet
Something Somewhere Went Terribly Wrong (Black\large)

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Years after George Washington became famous for chopping down that cherry tree his less known cousin Hank started making and selling these as souvenirs to tourists at The White House during Washington's presidency.

Discombobulate dark grey- large

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I have never seen an all-metal one like that, but it looks like a shake hammer (or shingle hammer) - - the hatchet blade is for splitting or trimming the wood shakes to size, the hammer end is for nailing them, and the notch in the blade is for pulling nails. I have a very similar one that has a wood handle.
Schrodinger's cat dead and/or alive mens XL

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A shake-shingle hammer for wooden shake roof construction & repair.

Steam punk goggles

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It's a hammeraxe: when you're too lazy to get another tool in your shed.

Schrodinger's Cat: It's a Trap! Medium, Ladies' Fit

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It's a naval boarding axe. T-shirt: Neatoramanaut, large.

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a cedar shake roofing hammer....powered by caffeine...M

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Carrie Nation Hatchet

Horsehead Mask

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It's a tool used to test candidates for Lumberjack College. If they hit at a tree with the handle, they are disqualified. If they pummel at it with the hatchet part, they are legitimate woodsmen. I think it's called an Akin Axe.

XL Twaggies Logo

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It's the axe that Lizzie Borden allegedly used to give her step-mother 40 wacks & her father 41. (Aug. 4th was the 120th anniversary of their murders)
PB Jellyfish, L, Serene Green

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It's the final addition to Lizzie Borden's charm bracelet.

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Its a shake hammer, the "axe" end splits shake (also known as cedar shingles) and the hammer end is specially designed for shingle nails.

Winter is Coming, Medium.

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It's a is Molly and it's used to Flirtin' with Disaster.

Bite me black XXL

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Anker commented "It is so small and sweet it’s got to be a candy hatchet!
but dont ask me it is is Woodwards’s or CANDY CO.
All your base (Chemistry) ladie’s fit M white"
It was just under my tip jars post.

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Looks like a standard "fence tool" or "fencing hammer" to me.

Surprise me (men's Medium)

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It's a Hobbit Roofing Hatchet.

When World's Collide L

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