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Photos Help! Trying to identify this hatchet and axe

Rvand,with all respect,but the shots of touch-marks are pretty grainy,and poorly legible.

Also,it'd be really helpful to see the outlines of the entire heads,And the view from the top into the eye would be great also.

Often it makes it much easier to first attribute an axe to a style or type as well as to a country of origin,before one can attempt to id the markings.
(just a personal opinion,there may well be someone out there who's familiar with these specific markings).
 
Axe mark...better.JPG Hatchet Eye.jpg Hatchet Mark.jpg Hatchet.jpg Axe.jpg Axe Mark.jpg Axe Eye.jpg
jake pogg said:
Rvand,with all respect,but the shots of touch-marks are pretty grainy,and poorly legible.

Also,it'd be really helpful to see the outlines of the entire heads,And the view from the top into the eye would be great also.

Often it makes it much easier to first attribute an axe to a style or type as well as to a country of origin,before one can attempt to id the markings.
(just a personal opinion,there may well be someone out there who's familiar with these specific markings).
Click to expand...
These were both found in Venice Italy....hopefully these pics are better!
Hatchet Eye.jpg Hatchet Mark.jpg Hatchet.jpg Axe mark...better.JPG Axe mark...better.JPG
 
Already at the beginning of the nineteenth century, an artisan activity dedicated to forging steel for the production of tools for agriculture, carpentry and construction was flourishing in the Biella area. In the first decade of the twentieth century, this activity, located in Netro, was transformed into industrial and took on great importance for the economy of the area during the war of 1915-18, when it produced large quantities of forged cars, trucks, artillery, etc. With the end of the war an industrial conversion was necessary: it was then that Ernesto Rubino decided to enter a new field of productive activity, then very promising: the automobile industry ...

from google translation of
https://www.biellaclub.it/_cultura/netro-ecomuseo/index.htm

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Catalog said to be from 1936 (from a sale listing, so no link), partial translation of description:

...catalog of this company founded at the beginning of the '900 by Cav. Ernesto Rubino in Netro specializes in the production of agricultural and handicraft work tools, coming to export all over the world. It also appears to have produced a car model, the Ruby Type 1

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