Here is an different axe head

jblyttle

jblyttle

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This one is odd, it is 3.25lbs and is 7" long with a 45" edge. It looks like a slightly elongated Dayton. Even so it has an eye that looks slightly smaller than the typical boy's axe eye and has two sets of quad-diamond shapes stamped onto both sides. Anyone seen one like this before?



 
Wow, nice high centerline too, with a decent poll to balance the long bit. I'm no help on the maker, but it has to be good one for sure.
 
Possibly some pattern marks from a vise being as the two marks are offset from one another. Stanley four-square also has a similar pattern, but the four square tools I've seen are very neat and symmetrical.
 
halfaxe said:
Possibly some pattern marks from a vise being as the two marks are offset from one another. Stanley four-square also has a similar pattern, but the four square tools I've seen are very neat and symmetrical.
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I would have suggested the same thing. Mind you someone elected to get an overly-firm grip from a vise in order to do this.
 
Not exactly JB, I was gifted one that has a similar pattern. Mine is much more ornate. I have always thought it was some one putting there marks on it in the back yard. Mine is also marked CCC and maybe WPA or FS, I can't remember. I seen one quite similar some place and have decided that I might have been hasty with declaring mine a fake. I just seen one some place but can't remember where. An old catalog, publication or the bay. The one I have came very close to being re-forged. I will see if I can dig it up and get a picture to compare the markings.
 
Its marked CCC and twice with the FS stamp. It was at one time pinned to a handle.
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The one I seen before had even more of that pattern on it. Just can't remember where I seen it. I have had this one for about three years, so in that time period I had not seen another until quite recently.

Thanks for posting that one JB, I am sure now that those stamps came from the maker.
 
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