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I bought this little... umm... hatchet? A couple months ago for ten bucks and hung it on an ash handle i hastily made from a piece of firewood saved from my wood shed. I can find similar shapes but none with the two notches like this one. It came in immaculate shape and i just oiled it and that's it. A lathing hatchet perhaps? Thanks for any suggestions or info!
Thank you! I was very pleased to find it as nos! I believe someone drove ONE nail with It! It looks so clean it seems not that old but the market for lathing hatchets dried up in the 30's or 40's i believe with the advent of sheetrock. It was the second nail slot that kept throwing me off because i can't find another like it. That's always a cool thing! Lol. Thank you for responding!
You're right this is a produce hatchet , I messed up.I believe it's a "produce hatchet".
It looks similar to the Keen Kutter Produce Hatchet in the 1912 catalog from Simmons.
The 'produce hatchet' from Kelly, shown below in a 1927 catalog, has a similar straight (not dropped) hammer poll:
I'll be darned... a produce hatchet! I've done my best searching through the old catalogs I've been able to find online but i couldn't find one that had this hatchet. So thank you! So does that mean everything from lettuce to chickens?I believe it's a "produce hatchet".
It looks similar to the Keen Kutter Produce Hatchet in the 1912 catalog from Simmons.
The 'produce hatchet' from Kelly, shown below in a 1927 catalog, has a similar straight (not dropped) hammer poll:
I agree... WAY too many hatchets.. and it also confuses more common patterns as well because i think different companies took more liberties with naming a hatchets profile. I don't think there was as much of a set standard for hatchets and all boys axes. For instance, to my understanding a "Yankee" pattern axe is basically a Dayton with an almost flat top. A barely perceptible upsweep. And from what i can tell most company's agree on this and they're all similar. But I've seen (keen kutter for instance) call what looks like a small Dayton a yankee! I've seen Kelly do that too with boys axes. So do the patterns change with the size of the axe? I was thinking of making a new thread about this with pictures and advertisements to help me make my point.
I'm guessing that there was a good use for that second (top) notch when opening up old-time crates of produce.
I'd wager so.
Right on... i found this in the very catalog i thought i had searched thoroughly...
Right on... i found this in the very catalog i thought i had searched thoroughly...and at $15 for it when considering inflation i think i got a better deal than if i bought it new! Hahaha.
