Help Identifying Tool

Thanks Wisc, you can see where it's been heated and blackened on the curl.
Still looks like a ruined triangular file to me...

 

Looks like a butter curler to me. Try and see the result.

 

There’s no markings on it anywhere.

 

Do you know anything about it’s history? It looks similar to a Russian tool used with wrought iron.

 

It's just a guess but a veneer iron? It looks lovely, well made and old.

 

After some consideration, this is not a Butter Curler, but a Spoon Carving Tool.
I have inherited a similar tool used by my grandfather.

 

There is no sharp edge on the piece and it appears too long for carving a spoon or bowl.

 

Ok! Then is my next thought that the tool is used to catch a rope or a string and tighten it. Or maybe to catch something with a loop.
Tricky thing!

 

let's see it..

 

I have to convert the picture to URL but how? I didn't succeed, sorry. Need help!

 

Total length is 23 cm. The tool is sharp or has been once. I think it's 100 years old.

 

I have a lathe and the above are bowl turning hooks, I doubt the tool in question has the right shape to be the same as above as the hocked end isn't flat enough for a blade to be at the right angle. I'm still going with a veneer iron as the hooked end will allow you to get into tight edges without piercing the veneer. Here is a guy making a bowl turning hook.

 

Well, I go for a bowl turning hook, but I never heard that my grandfather had a lathe, so I assumed that it was a spoon carving tool. You learn something every day!

 

It's only the length of the shaft that makes this a bowl turning hook, a spoon knife/ hook knife is very similar but a much shorter or non existent shaft and a less curved, bigger blade.

 

Thanks for your interesting explanation, I have always wondered.

 

Thanks everyone for your responses.

for those of you who talked about the bowl turning hook it’s a good theory, but the edges aren’t sharp on the tool.

Pete thinks that a veneer iron is the most plausible suggestion so far.

he decided against trying it as a butter curler since he thought it would make a lot of mess haha.

 

A new suggestion is that this is a burnishing tool. A tool used by a silversmith to polish the surface inside a bowl. A straight burnishing tool can’t be used. The smooth surface of this tool is a must to get a shiny silver surface.

 

A burnishing tool for silver has a curved/rounded surface,not straight edges.

 

I don't think it has the right shape for a burnishing tool either but it is a mystery to me. What country is it from?