Axe stamps

[Daffy86]

Does anyone know this stamp, I found this ax in a cellar

 

[Hickory n steel]

I don't know the stamp, but the axe looks German to me.
The symbol also kinda has that old world eastern European vibe to it, I also noticed that it says 1855 which could have something to do with the founding of the company and not necessarily the age of the axe.

 

[Agent_H]

Does anyone know this stamp, I found this ax in a cellar

The ol’ winged man 1855! I saved this site from one of Steve Tall’s posts.

http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/marken.phtml

Winged man with "1855" in the circle = Peter Fleuss GmbH, Wuppertal-Küllenh.


http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/sonstige.phtml

"PET. Fleuss
WARRANTY, image 'Winged head with the year 1855 in a circle' '( Collection Ulrich Affolderbach )
The word / figurative mark'" 1855 "with winged head 'was on 06.07.1907 under registration number 98366 in the trademark register of the German Patent - and trademark Office registered.
entry in 'The German machine tool industry' [ DWI ] (1942) under 'Wuppertal-Küllenhahn':
'Fleuss, Peter, tool factory, Küllenhahner street 66, Tel 32735th'
More information on Alte-Beitel.de

Pretty cool tool stamp.

 

[300Six]

Agent_H; you must be trying to usurp Steve's function, affording him a break or helping him out? Congratulations, by the way, and nice to see others on here expertly sleuthing stamps and patterns.

 

[Steve Tall]

Agent_H; you must be trying to usurp Steve's function, affording him a break or helping him out? Congratulations, by the way, and nice to see others on here expertly sleuthing stamps and patterns.

Well done, Agent_H.
My work here is done.

(I don't really have a "function" here, and I gladly share my sources and search methods. )

 

[garry3]

Well it seems Steve has an apprentice! He is doing pretty well also. It sounds so easy when Steve explains how he does it but for some reason it doesn't work to well for me.

 

[Hickory n steel]

The ol’ winged man 1855! I saved this site from one of Steve Tall’s posts.

http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/marken.phtml

Winged man with "1855" in the circle = Peter Fleuss GmbH, Wuppertal-Küllenh.


http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/sonstige.phtml

"PET. Fleuss
WARRANTY, image 'Winged head with the year 1855 in a circle' '( Collection Ulrich Affolderbach )
The word / figurative mark'" 1855 "with winged head 'was on 06.07.1907 under registration number 98366 in the trademark register of the German Patent - and trademark Office registered.
entry in 'The German machine tool industry' [ DWI ] (1942) under 'Wuppertal-Küllenhahn':
'Fleuss, Peter, tool factory, Küllenhahner street 66, Tel 32735th'
More information on Alte-Beitel.de

Pretty cool tool stamp.

Well while I didn't recognize the stamp, my gut was right.
It looked German, and I thought that the 1855 was company related .

 

[Agent_H]

Agent_H; you must be trying to usurp Steve's function, affording him a break or helping him out? Congratulations, by the way, and nice to see others on here expertly sleuthing stamps and patterns.

Nice, 300six!
I will never rival Steve Tall. He has an eye for worn/partial markings, acquainted himself with all manners of resource materials, exhibits some very higher order deductive reasoning, and has a genuine interest in these tools and the back stories of history told through axes and their makers, and a very solid memory.

My guess is that Steve Tall can do this level of work with anything take might take his interest.

His citations appear professional as a document you wanted done right would look.

I get up early. The last couple of mornings I have had coffee and simply read that entire page of German tool makers for fun. Someone posted a German/Euro looking axe here recently and it piqued my interest. 4-5:30am is often when I do my tool rehab but running my angle grinder then is going to wake the house lol.

Since I'm going off some without a picture of an axe... I have often wondered about Steve Tall.

1. Is Steve Tall human? If so, how much?
2. Steve works for the NSA.
3. Steve is doing his Doctoral work through these forums.
4. Steve probably makes good coffee.
5. Steve uses two monitors.
6. I always look forward to his input.

That is just for entertainment, of course.

Well done, Agent_H.
My work here is done.

(I don't really have a "function" here, and I gladly share my sources and search methods. )

I don’t have a function* really other than I very much enjoy what goes on here.

Steve, your work is never done lol. You probably need a raise but you know “Middle Management”.

*Function? You help lend legitimacy to this place - someone has to


That axe might be something to hold on to as I don't know how many of those made it over here- pretty neat stamp though.

 

[Daffy86]

thanks for the info

 

[garry3]

Nice, 300six!
I will never rival Steve Tall. He has an eye for worn/partial markings, acquainted himself with all manners of resource materials, exhibits some very higher order deductive reasoning, and has a genuine interest in these tools and the back stories of history told through axes and their makers, and a very solid memory.

My guess is that Steve Tall can do this level of work with anything take might take his interest.

His citations appear professional as a document you wanted done right would look.

I get up early. The last couple of mornings I have had coffee and simply read that entire page of German tool makers for fun. Someone posted a German/Euro looking axe here recently and it piqued my interest. 4-5:30am is often when I do my tool rehab but running my angle grinder then is going to wake the house lol.

Since I'm going off some without a picture of an axe... I have often wondered about Steve Tall.

1. Is Steve Tall human? If so, how much?
2. Steve works for the NSA.
3. Steve is doing his Doctoral work through these forums.
4. Steve probably makes good coffee.
5. Steve uses two monitors.
6. I always look forward to his input.
.

You bring up some good points Agent H. Steve Tall might just be a computer generated fictional character. I mean, has anyone actually met the man? Maybe he is a team of axe collectors? He is as good at unraveling stamps and research as JB is at picking. Some people just have a knack for things...

 

[Steve Tall]

The "team" is still working on my response to the recent comments.

 

[Hickory n steel]

The "team" is still working on my response to the recent comments.

Seriously how did you acquire you're vast knowledge of axe stamps ?
You've certainly been putting it to good use by helping us all out, so thanks for that 👍👍

 

[Steve Tall]

Seriously how did you acquire you're vast knowledge of axe stamps ?...

Instead of vast knowledge, it's more like a puzzle to figure out, using the vast amounts of information available online. (There's a lot of chaff for each grain of wheat, though.) I'm not a fan of memorizing facts about anything, I'd rather focus on where to look things up, and my sources are available to anyone here.

If I do "solve" an axe puzzle, I want the specific information to be available to help the next guy, and be more than "hearsay", which is why I include the related links, usually with the name and date of the reference (in case the link gets broken). This is one way we can help grow the collective knowledge of this forum, adding to the information available to anyone using the forum's search function.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Instead of vast knowledge, it's more like a puzzle to figure out, using the vast amounts of information available online. (There's a lot of chaff for each grain of wheat, though.) I'm not a fan of memorizing facts about anything, I'd rather focus on where to look things up, and my sources are available to anyone here.

If I do "solve" an axe puzzle, I want the specific information to be available to help the next guy, and be more than "hearsay", which is why I include the related links, usually with the name and date of the reference (in case the link gets broken). This is one way we can help grow the collective knowledge of this forum, adding to the information available to anyone using the forum's search function.

That's funny as I'm the exact opposite, I like to remember stuff ( though I usually do remember where the info came from )
I'm just glad my axes are not a mystery ( other than the age of my homestead )