how old is this plumb boyscout hatchet
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Boy Scouts of America have no such site and never did.
I was going to direct you to scoutknives.net but I see their axe page is not as complete as their knives pages and lacks any info on Plum.
My ebay Plumb arrived today and I spent a good while sleuthing on google trying to date it as well. (Incidentally, a google search for "plumb hatchet" will get you a lot of pics of Double Ott's collection) So, here's what little I've gleaned.
They started adding red dye to the handles around or just before 1922 so that jives with yours being early 1900's like Thomas Linton said.
They stopped using a screw wedge in 1955 when they switched to the permabond.
Mine, which looks just like Double Otts only more scratched up, is probably 1940s, though that's a guess based on several different auctions (not ebay but still...) of hatchets with identical marking being labeled as 1940s.
edit: and for the curious here's the 1922 patent for the screw wedge
They started adding red dye to the handles around or just before 1922 so that jives with yours being early 1900's like Thomas Linton said.
They stopped using a screw wedge in 1955 when they switched to the permabond.
Mine, which looks just like Double Otts only more scratched up, is probably 1940s, though that's a guess based on several different auctions (not ebay but still...) of hatchets with identical marking being labeled as 1940s.
edit: and for the curious here's the 1922 patent for the screw wedge
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