Found dead axes and hatchets.

SKYwerks said:
I picked up an axe the other day, can't locate the markings. . .
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In this link to a previous thread a poster offers an opinion that the OP's Witherell axe was made "somewhere in the area of 1910 to 1930":
In theory at least, it seems that date range for Witherell axes could have been larger?

From that thread:
cooperhill said:
Found this under a google search, Registry of Maine Toolmakers.

"Witherell, J. H.** Oakland 1885-1916? Tools Made: Axes Remarks: The axes made by J. H. Witherell may have been made at the Witherell Scythe Co., as implied by Klenman (1997). At the least, the J. H. Witherell company was part of that Oakland, Maine, Emerson Stream ax-makers complex, which was the location of many other Maine ax-makers and tool companies, such as the famous Emerson and Stevens Manufacturing Company. Klenman (1990, 26) lists 14 other Oakland ax-makers and reproduces a Witherell ax label, date unknown, with the notation in the lower right corner that the Pierce Hardware Company of Taunton, Mass. was one of their vendors."

http://www.davistownmuseum.org/PDFs/Vol_10_Registry.pdf

Would love to see a pic of the axe.
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Steve Tall said:
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"Witherell Scythe Co. Oakland 1885-1926 Tools Made: Axes and Scythes
Remarks: Their mark WITHERELL SCYTHE CO. | OAKLAND, MAINE has been reported on a paper ax label. Another company, Witherell Axe Co., supposedly was in operation during the same years as this company in Oakland. Perhaps these two companies were the same and the name was changed at some point. Klenman (1997) indicates that James H. Witherell opened the company in 1886, and his sons, Carl and Louis, continued the business when he died in 1916. They sold it to Emerson & Stevens in the mid-1920s. E. & S. continued to use the label for awhile."

text quoted from the .pdf link provided by cooperhill
http://www.davistownmuseum.org/PDFs/Vol_10_Registry.pdf
pages 244-255
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From the above:
"5. Invoices for Labels Date the Manufacture of Certain Brands. We know that Emerson & Stevens made axes under a number of trade names. Invoices from label makers allow us to date when these brands were being produced. In 1940 they were making axes under the Witherell, . . ."​


Bob
 
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