Axe ID please

jblyttle

jblyttle

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I saw this today and wanted to buy it, but I thought that the price was crazy. He wouldn't budge much so I left it behind, but I'm curious as I can't find any others online or find it on Yesteryear Tools. Does it look familiar to anyone? It is a full sized Dayton.

 
Never heard of it but a hewing hatchet with that 'Black Navy' stamp just sold on the bay not long ago. It had what looked like an original handle with a partial label. Maybe somebody here can identify the brand by the label.

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It's a house brand of Belknap Hardware and Mfg. Co., based upon this search result (only a snippet view, though):


Hardware Age - Volume 136, Issues 1-7 - Page 584
https://books.google.com/books?id=n6YTAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=black+navy
1935 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions
Jobbers9 Brands TRADE NAMES AND HOUSE BRANDS OF WHOLESALE HARDWARE HOUSES Vol. ...
BLACK NAVY. Belknap Hardware & Mfg. Co.. Inc.. Ill E. Main St.. Louisville, Ky. BLACK PRINCE, Shapleigh Hardware Co., Fourth St. A ...
 
Thanks, but there's not much to it. It's all in the search terms.

Suspected that it might be a hardware distributor's brand, so I went to google books and searched for:
"black navy" hardware
and found it on the first page of results.

I'm sharing my methods so that others can do likewise, and then "my work here will be done". ;)
 
I tried searching google books with slightly different terms and came up empty. Well played, Steve!
 
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