Monika wrote:..........................my favourite: it's a Dutch hoe, sharp enough to slice cheese with (if you so wished).........................the Dutch hoe, by the way, was made by Elwell, a firm long gone.
I still have my Elwell fork I bought 40 years ago, lovely well balanced tool.
Here is an interesting link, showing so many of the "old names" absorbed into the vast Spear & Jackson empire.
http://www.timelesstools.co.uk/images/S ... 20Tree.pdf
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