ID cruiser from description?

[gben]

Yesterday I was talking to a gentleman in his garage about a small cruiser axe hanging on it's wall. This guy was in his mid-70s and his father and grandfather had a steam-powered sawmill for many years.

He let me scrape some dirt and rust off the side of the little axe with a putty knife and I found part of a logo, an oval made of a single line with the last letter of a name being an elongated "B". I thought of Plumb and OVB but neither of those put their logo in a single-line oval did they?

The little axe had been cracked and repaired with braze in the distant past and it's handle was dry-rotted a bit, but it was a nice family heirloom and wall-hanger for the guy.

 

[Steve Tall]

Sounds like it might be Bingham's Best Brand, like this example with only a single-line oval around the BBB:

Yes Binghams Best Brands. They didn't actually make axes though but had an axe company make and brand them. I'm not sure which company but probably one of the big ones.

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[gben]

Knowing Steve Tall I should have put some money down that he would nail it. That is exactly the style oval and "B" that is left on the cruiser I looked at Saturday.

Thank-you, I will let the owner know next time I bump into him.

 

[Steve Tall]

Thanks to halfaxe for posting that photo previously. Some pictures of BBB axes show a fancier logo.

 

[gben]

I went back to this guy's house a few days ago and told him that his axe was by Bingham's Best Brands. He asked what I thought it was worth and I told him probably not much in dollars because of how it had been cracked and brazed and because the logo was partially obliterated, but I said it was a great family heirloom. He had another full-sized DB hanging in the garage he said was also passed down in his family but it had no markings on it at all, so end of story.