I recently acquired an axe which I can't identify. I've been a woodworker for a long time, and I collect antique tools, but I'm having trouble identifying this one.
The head measures about 9 1/4 inches long, and the blade is about 5 1/4 inches across. It is marked "A (dot) C". The head is flat on one side, as it is evidently a hewing axe. The eye is in a tapered trapezoid shape, instead of round or oval. .The handle is about 15 inches long. The whole axe weighs about 3 1/2 lbs.
The handle is obviously not original. It is square in cross-section with rounded corners, and would be very uncomfortable to use.
I would like to know who might have made it, approximately how old it might be, what trade it might have been used in, and what the original handle might have looked like.
Any information would be greatly
appreciated
.
Thanks.
Rick
The head measures about 9 1/4 inches long, and the blade is about 5 1/4 inches across. It is marked "A (dot) C". The head is flat on one side, as it is evidently a hewing axe. The eye is in a tapered trapezoid shape, instead of round or oval. .The handle is about 15 inches long. The whole axe weighs about 3 1/2 lbs.
The handle is obviously not original. It is square in cross-section with rounded corners, and would be very uncomfortable to use.
I would like to know who might have made it, approximately how old it might be, what trade it might have been used in, and what the original handle might have looked like.
Any information would be greatly
Thanks.
Rick