Can you help me identify this broad axe?

[iaccoand]

I just bought a broad axe from a guy on Craigslist. It has "Waters & Co" and "Guarantee" stamped on it...I think. I can't really read the last part of "& Co" and I can't read the first part of "Guarantee". I did a lot of digging online but couldn't find anything concrete. I did find a reference in a book about the NY State Agricultural Society annual Show held in 1848. The award for "Best one dozen axes, diploma and $2, Waters & Co., Westfield, (Pratt & Co. agents, Buffalo.)"

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. That's all I got!

Can anyone tell me more about who made this broad axe, where, and when? Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm a history and tool nut.

Andrew

 

[Steve Tall]

Looks like
Waters & Co. Warranted

If I find anything in the next few minutes, I'll report back.

Edit: This might have some info
Classic American Tool Making
www.scribd.com/doc/71592757/Classic-American-Tool-Making

 

[Steve Tall]

Now I think I have something (besides problems with this computer):

"...In Part 2 of this series of Mysteries and Memories along the Chautauqua Creeks was a map showing Frank Waters’ Manufacturing Establishment that had been “born” in the late 1840s, starting as F Waters & Co. An advertisement in the Westfield Messenger newspaper of summer 1848 states, “F. Waters & Co’s superior farming tools, consisting of Hay and Manure Forks, Axes, Shovels, Hoes, Scoops, &c., constantly on hand and for sale at the Yankee Store. May 11, 1848.” A later ad of Nov. 14, 1848, was mentioned as appearing in the February 20, 1849 Messenger, telling that F. Waters had opened a new Store on the site of the manufactory near the creek, which could be located in the 1855 map printed with the BeeLines article two weeks ago.

"...By 1851, Franklin Waters and Geo. W. Patterson, Jr. had formed a partnership, renaming the manufactory “Waters & Patterson” and noting their “Office on Water Street.” But “limitation of time according to copartnership agreement” led to the Dissolution of the firm as of Feb. 1, 1853, as printed in the Westfield Messenger of March 31, 1853..."

--by Marybelle Beigh, Westfield Historian

http://westfieldrepublican.com/page/content.detail/id/511357/BeeLines.html