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[LG&M]

I need your help. I can't post pictures here I don't have a host site. I could send to someone if they wanted to post them.
The axe is a boys axe with 4 eye ridges and a blue head. The top of the handle is the same blue so not a rehang. The label on the handle says true temper & there is part of a label on the head.
The end of the handle is red.
Looks to be from the 70's -80's
I really want to see what the original label looks like.
Thank you.

 

[SwissHeritageCo]

Pictures would go a long way in getting you a detailed answer.

You can use IMGBB.

 

[flexo2]

"The top of the handle is the same blue so not a rehang.."
Columbo would prove the opposite after investigation...

 

[LG&M]

https://ibb.co/fGdk8w5m
https://ibb.co/GqwbDTV
https://ibb.co/jvyxJxDH

Any better?

 

[Hickory n steel]

It looks like a True Temper True American to me.

The fit & finish of the head looks night and day better than my late 60's woodslasher boys axe of the same pattern, but maybe the True American line was just a bit more expensive and received better attention to detail.
It's definitely going to be 70's for sure, because earlier TT's had 3 eye ridges running through instead of just 2.

 

[rjdankert]

https://ibb.co/jvyxJxDH

I don't know what device/system you are using, but from my laptop:

Clicking on the BBCode link and pasting in the BladeForums editor:




Bob

 

[LG&M]

Thank you both. I will work on my image posting.
I will also search true temper true American.
I thought Mann had the true American line.

 

[Hickory n steel]

Thank you both. I will work on my image posting.
I will also search true temper true American.
I thought Mann had the true American line.

They did once have the True American line, but so did TT.
I don't know how long they had the line for or how they came to start using it, but AMES even offered TT True American branded axes in recent years up until maybe 5 years ago.
Some Harbor freight stores even carried them.

 

[rjdankert]

Mann Edge Tool Company [Catalog] : Mann Edge Tool Co. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

12 p., illus., 27.9 cm, trade catalog

archive.org

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/true-temper-timeline.1532184/post-17596454

Bob

 

[LG&M]

Thank you.I have looked at those threads. I see nothing blue or with a similar label.

 

[LG&M]

My best guess is it is a 1970's true temper made for some hardware store chain.
Might not have had a true temper model number/ name.

 

[Hickory n steel]

My best guess is it is a 1970's true temper made for some hardware store chain.
Might not have had a true temper model number/ name.

based on the TRUE TEMPER name on the label I don't think that this is correct.

With the AMERICAN and stars in a banner that I can see and the colors, my first thought was True American but it could have very well been a Bicentennial thing for 1976 if they weren't in fact using the TRUE AMERICAN name back then.

 

[LG&M]

The plot thickens.
A Bicentennial axe would be very cool.

 

[Hickory n steel]

The plot thickens.
A Bicentennial axe would be very cool.

I don't actually know if they made Bicentennial axes ( V&B made gold painted Bicentennial Craftsman hatchets for Sears), but there is clearly some kind of patriotic theming to this particular boy's axe of yours.