Any know anything about this makers mark on my broad axe?

[Pro303]

Anyone have any idea what this makers mark says or who it is or really any info on it?

 

[Square_peg]

Picture?

 

[Steve Tall]

Picture?

Here ya go:

 

[Steve Tall]

Nothing definitive, but the stamp looks like it might say:

M CARTER
[something] E PARKER

which might refer to
Marvin Carter, son of Pulaski Carter.
Pulaski Carter established "Carter's Capouse Works" near Scranton, PA, on E. Parker Street, in 1841.

"In the fall of 1841 Pulaski Carter put in three trip hammers and three forges. He purchased a thirty-acre tract of land from Henry Heermans and established "Carter's Capouse Works." Three others besides himself were employed in 1841, using three and a half tons of iron to make 180 dozen scythes and 160 dozen axes, which were ground, polished, boxed, and sold by Pulaski himself, who was foreman, salesman, and bookkeeper.

The shop, then a single building, thirty by fifty feet, gave place to a cluster of more than thirty buildings.2 There are still a few of the original buildings in the area, especially houses where the family lived. Some of the streets around the East Parker Street location are named Carter, Amelia, and Crane..."

Here's one for the wish list:

Pulaski Carter died in 1884, and "left surviving him his widow and three children. The children, Pulaski P., Marvin P., and Amelia M. (who married William De Witt Kennedy), carried on the business that he started in 1841. They had all been working for Capouse Works in one capacity or another. The business was continued by these heirs by mutual consent and verbal agreement under the firm name of Carter & Co. Over the last few years of the century the assets were sold. The business was considered closed as of 1 January 1900."


Quotes from article by Susan Carter White Pieroth,
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~scwhite/kennedy/PulaskiCarterArticleChronicle.html