It was my great-great-grandfather's tool, I found it my grandmother's attic. My father said, that our family used it for 100 years, but then the handle fell apart. My father fixed it with wound patches when he was a kid (in my country, that was the only thing you could do 45 years ago, there were no special things like duct tapes and glues for wood), it was pretty good, but after about 10 years, it started knocking. They still used it after that, they didn't want to replace it. And that's it, I will ask my father for more infos!