ID help please on a cool old smallish Connie

[jblyttle]

This is about a 2.75lb head and kind of wedge shaped. I don't recognize the mark. Looks hand made.

 

[Steve Tall]

Looks like this WITHERELL axe:

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"Witherell Scythe Co. Oakland 1885-1926 Tools Made: Axes and Scythes
Remarks: Their mark WITHERELL SCYTHE CO. | OAKLAND, MAINE has been reported on a paper ax label. Another company, Witherell Axe Co., supposedly was in operation during the same years as this company in Oakland. Perhaps these two companies were the same and the name was changed at some point. Klenman (1997) indicates that James H. Witherell opened the company in 1886, and his sons, Carl and Louis, continued the business when he died in 1916. They sold it to Emerson & Stevens in the mid-1920s. E. & S. continued to use the label for awhile."

text quoted from the Davistown Museum's directory of Maine toolmakers
http://www.davistownmuseum.org/PDFs/Vol_10_Registry.pdf
pages 244-255

 

[jblyttle]

Thanks very much. I can look these up if the name is complete or if there is enough to guess, but I get stuck if it is a partial AND I have never seen it before.

 

[garry3]

Thanks very much. I can look these up if the name is complete or if there is enough to guess, but I get stuck if it is a partial AND I have never seen it before.

I thought I was looking at roman numerals. I love those hand forged axes. Those are the real thing, not half way between hand forged and drop forged like the GB's. What's the rest look like JB?