i boguht this a looong timeago on ebay from france(if that helps).....is it a meat cleaver?....an axe?.....someother weird tool?.....what intrigues me is the handle....it has like a weird angle at the bottom of it...it might be hard to telll in my pic but imagine an all steel handle and then a thin piece of metal just randomly juttingout of the side of the handle.....what the heck is it there for?....ryan