What is this for?

[Aimee99]

No idea what it is, found it in the attic. It’s a set. Any ideas?

I am not sure about the English terminology, but to me it looks like something you would use to tap open a cask of beer.

Home lobotomy kit.

Is that a baby holding the stick thing?

Croquet mallet?

Antique butt plugs?

I’ll ask Dh, he knows about this sort of things.

But I also think cask tapper.

ApocalypseNowt - maybe. I’ll give them a sniff.

Perhaps it once belonged in one of these:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2155799/Vampire-slaying-kit-1890s-complete-wooden-stakes-garlic-paste-vials-holy-water-comes-auction.html

(sorry it's DM, but it's worth it)

Dh usefully says it’s a mallet.

And another mallet that has lost its head.

Do you have a photo of the end of the non mallet?

It could be an old fashioned wood barrel bung and mallet
Have a google at images.

@Troels
So "barrel bung" and "mallet" are the words I searched for.

Any luck?

Do you have a photo of the end of the non mallet?

Aren't we all in some way or another non mallets?

The big mallet is a maul and I think the thing on the right is the handle of a smaller maul with the head missing. They're used for working very thick heavy leather. Was the previous owner a saddlemaker?

So my husband just got home and told me that the small stick (which is really heavy) is for knocking a fish out

Just looked it up and it’s called a Priest.

I think it looks like a judge's gravel.
I suppose the smaller one must be for hitting the accused if they step out of line in court.

If the small one for knocking out fish is the big one for... clubbing seals?

Sentence fail.