Americas Best axe

[TERRY%(]

i recently bought an old axe from a friend it was pretty rusted. I started cleaning it up found it had a brand name Americas Best it also had a number 4 stamped below the the brands name does any one know anything about this axe

 

[Steve Tall]

"America's Best" was the store brand for the Moore-Handley Hardware Company, in Birmingham Alabama. Probably made by one of the major axe makers at the time.

From a related thread:

"America's Best" was the store brand for the Moore-Handley Hardware Company, in Birmingham Alabama. Probably made by one of the major axe makers at the time. Here's a page from their 1948 catalog (from a current auction listing), and an excerpt from "Southern Hardware" (1916) giving the company history.

from page below:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/988275-America-s-Best

 

[Alnamvet68]

Snow & Nealley made axes for several companies back in the day.

 

[TERRY%(]

wow thanks wonder what its worth