Identifying a Mysterious Hand Tool

Please could you help to identify this hand tool?

A reader’s grandfather was a gem setter in the Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham and their father in law, A. R. Emerson, was a silversmith and Liveryman of the Goldsmiths’ Company.

The relative has inherited a box of their tools, gravers, burnishers, etc but one tool or set of tools is defying attempts to identify satisfactorily.

The photo shows just two from a set of 6 of varying sizes.

We wondered if a Benchpeg reader would be able to satisfy their curiosity – and with an illustration of it's use!

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