J Marples of Sheffield made it but what is it?

[okeydokey]

So I popped into my local arty tarty shop where they sell all sorts of new/old/recycled things ranging from vintage clothes to a cake icing supply shop - they also have an old tools area. I have previously bought a few tools and a plane, their things are usually cheap, labelled wrongly old sometimes missing parts and unfortunately the owner seems to take pleasure in polishing anything steel with a 3m buffing wheel (?) removing much patina as well as surface rust.
Today I invested £3 in a Marples chisel with a sharp pointy bit but otherwise flat not chisel like at all, anyone know what its used for please, if it were a bit more chunky I could see a use in woodturning, cant see how its for carving either.
Overall length 8.25" or 21cm

 

[Orraloon]

This is just a guess but I think it has been reground from a mortise chisel. Likely for turning. It's quite common to reshape tools for those one of turning jobs.
Regards
John

 

[Droogs]

or it's an elephant's toothpick

 

[Ozi]

Could it be a soldering iron, are those burn marks on the handle?

 

[AdrianUK]

Am with Orraloon on the, looks very much like it stated life as a bolstered mortice chisel.
I’ve a couple of unusual turning tools I’ve acquired that were included in a bundle of turning chisels, they’d been ground for a specific one off task maybe. One was a Taylor mortice chisel, new full length, which I reground back to a mortice profile.

 

[--Tom--]

Looks like a mortice chisel reground for thread cutting on a lathe

 

[okeydokey]

Thanks for your comments - its not burnmarks and Ive asked an elephant or two if they would use it so the most likely is a reground chisel for a one off turning tool - with its shape it would cut consistent depth slots.