I had a look through Salaman's woodworking tools and there are pages and pages of different hammers!
A bit like axes there are not many uses for a spike on the reverse of a hammer - mining perhaps and weapons of course.
However, there is a fairly close match to a Ship Maul used by shipwrights to hammer in the trenails (wooden pins) and large nails during shipbuilding. The tool would then be reversed and the spike used to hammer the pins/nails below the surface of the wood to allow trimming to shape afterwards.
They came in many sizes between 1 1/2 to 8 lbs with handles up to 2' 9".
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