Carpenter’s hatchet “stamp” ID?

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bliorg

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Hi, all -

I’m sliding down the spoon carving rabbit hole and needed (wanted?) a craving hatchet for roughing blanks. Decided to go the cheap route and modify an old hatchet. Picked up a carpenter’s hatchet on marketplace for $7. When cleaning it up, found “cast steel warranted” and what seems like the remnants of a stamp of some sort. Was wondering if anyone here could make out any of what’s there?

Thanks!

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It might be an anchor or even an anchor with Y&P which would be Yerkes and Plumb.

In dim light shine a flashlight across the surface at a low angle.
 
Bob,
I have one of those " Half Claw Hatchets" in the 1906 catalog page you posted. It belonged to my grandfather and he carried it with him every where he went, in the woods or on the farm. It is one of my favorites. It makes me think of him, even though I rehung it with a hand made hickory octagonal haft (vertical grain of course! )
 
KentuckyBlackBird said:
Doesn’t it being in a 1906 make it just “at least that old”. Couldn’t it be older than 1906?
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By the same token, it could be later, as well. All the 1906 signifies is that we have id'ed that the mark was used in that year, and likely a period of time both before and after, but without documents showing a different mark being used at either end, we don't know when they started and when they stopped using a particular marking, just that 1906 was among the years that it was used.
 
I was using my Grandfather's hatchet yesterday, the half claw I mentioned above. I forgot to mention that when I made a new haft I put a feature that he, and also old carpenters that I worked with when I was young, had put on their hatchets and wood hafted hammers. Drill a 3/8-1/2" x 1/2" deep hole in the bottom of the butt, and fill it with melted bees wax. Then, when you need to lube a nail or a screw point before driving, to keep it from splitting the wood, you don't have to stop work and go find your block of bees wax.
 
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