Photos Collins and Co Legitimus?

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mokhalid

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Hello,
I have recently become fascinated with axe, I have got a few vintage swedish axe on my watch list to buy, the wife few weeks back said that I bought an axe couple of years back and it's somewhere in the shed, managed to find it today and got some rust off to see the makers name,
To be honest I am new to this and tried to Google some information on the axe,
if you can kindly help,
How do I date the year and is it authentic
Thank you

https://imgur.com/a/j66oVdI
 
That is a early Collins & Co Axe most likely pre 1900. The Legitemus logo with arm and crown was created to make real Collins axes look different from the counterfeits that were being produces in the 1880s. The legitemus logo years later became a way for collins to mark there best quality axes.
 
That diagonal U.S.A in the left corner seems odd to me, I haven't looked much into the legitimus axes because they command too much for me to pursue but that just seems wrong to me.
 
mokhalid said:
Hello,
I have recently become fascinated with axe, I have got a few vintage swedish axe on my watch list to buy, the wife few weeks back said that I bought an axe couple of years back and it's somewhere in the shed, managed to find it today and got some rust off to see the makers name,
To be honest I am new to this and tried to Google some information on the axe,
if you can kindly help,
How do I date the year and is it authentic
Thank you

https://imgur.com/a/j66oVdI
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You can stop looking at Swedish axes, chances are you already own much better quality tool than current imports
 

Hickory n steel Hickory n steel​

That diagonal U.S.A in the left corner seems odd to me, I haven't looked much into the legitimus axes because they command too much for me to pursue but that just seems wrong to me.



Not sure what is odd about USA in the corner. Even some older R. Kings Cast Steel had same USA maker's mark placement
 
Hickory n steel said:
That diagonal U.S.A in the left corner seems odd to me, I haven't looked much into the legitimus axes because they command too much for me to pursue but that just seems wrong to me.
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I agree. Was done after factory stamping
Might be something to do with import/export/trade tariffs.
 
crbnSteeladdict said:

Hickory n steel Hickory n steel​

That diagonal U.S.A in the left corner seems odd to me, I haven't looked much into the legitimus axes because they command too much for me to pursue but that just seems wrong to me.



Not sure what is odd about USA in the corner. Even some older R. Kings Cast Steel had same USA maker's mark placement
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It just looked like it was added over the Collins marking, and the font is different.
 
kvaughn said:
I agree. Was done after factory stamping
Might be something to do with import/export/trade tariffs.
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that may very well be true.
There's gotta be a reason it was added , likely to a lot of axes, and by somebody outside the Collins factory because I don't think they'd have placed it there.
 
There are so many of "Cast Steel" Legitimuses with USA stamp in the corner. All my old ones (all came from lower 48) have that same maker's mark so what are the odds they were stamped after they left factory.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-king-cast-steel-usa-1-lb-4677964260

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-king-cast-steel-usa-single-3902038665

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-collins-axe-co-king-cast-3937437909

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-collins-co-hartford-legitimus-3939813069

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-collins-legitimus-axe-4639796271

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-axe-head-collins-co-cast-4615463498

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-axe-head-legitimis-s-cast-4681511547

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/collins-co-hartford-cast-steel-axe-2109415612
 
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You might be right, but it just looks odd and doesn't flow with the rest of the stamp on top of partially being stamped over it.
 
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