rcmodel
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This shingling hatchet belonged to my great great grandfather.
I retreived it out of the junk today and am trying to get some idea of who made it.
My first impression was an early Kansas blacksmith, or Illinois Blacksmith made it before he came to Kansas?
But after I knocked some of the rust off I found:
What appears to be a heart stamped in on side.
And some very small stamped writing on the other which I think are in three lines.
It is too badly rust pitted to read it.
Measurements are:
2 3/4" cutting edge.
6 1/8" OAL length.
1/2" x 1 1/2" eye.
The eye is cracked, and the hammer head badly flared over.
But I want to re-handle it and make something out of it again.
Maybe a Viking Ax, cause I think it is nearly old enough to be one?
Or maybe a walking stick head, cause I feel old & tired enough to need one.
rc
I retreived it out of the junk today and am trying to get some idea of who made it.
My first impression was an early Kansas blacksmith, or Illinois Blacksmith made it before he came to Kansas?
But after I knocked some of the rust off I found:
What appears to be a heart stamped in on side.
And some very small stamped writing on the other which I think are in three lines.
It is too badly rust pitted to read it.
Measurements are:
2 3/4" cutting edge.
6 1/8" OAL length.
1/2" x 1 1/2" eye.
The eye is cracked, and the hammer head badly flared over.
But I want to re-handle it and make something out of it again.
Maybe a Viking Ax, cause I think it is nearly old enough to be one?
Or maybe a walking stick head, cause I feel old & tired enough to need one.
rc
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