Help with a Pennsylvania axe

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The style is common to Stricker and Stohler but the only letters I can make out is "NNON"
Could be McKinnon but those are Jersey's. Might be "Lebannon"?

Eye has the squared back, narrow profile and wider at bottom than top of my other Penn. axes.

Any hep would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Bill
 
My money's on McKinnon. They started making axes in 1845, and I believe they could have made that pattern.

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A History of Morris County, New Jersey, by Henry Cooper Pitney, 1914
 
Steve,
Thank you. That is really where I was leaning as I can piece together the I & K but I could not find any evidence of them making an axe quite this pattern. But when a maker is trying to establish themselves, they will make what people want :)

Funny thing, in my company we have an office in Morristown, NJ. One of the ladies last name in McKinnon. When I mentioned my axe collecting she mentioned it to her husband. He confirmed that some of his family was at one time in the business of making axes. Small old world it is.

Thanks,
Bill
 
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