It followed me home (Part 2)

Just got this later model single bit with a label on it but no stamp (unless its under the label) with rounded lobes and some red paint still left on the handle. Is this a later Plumb? Any ideas?
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Pretty looking, clean as it gets and a Jersey pattern to boot! rbeggs if this is an NOS Plumb (and might as well be) evidence of a wood-wedged eye VS red epoxied eye will help narrow things down as to age, as to pre 1956 or after. Nothing assured about this but does make a difference. What else can you glean off the label? The butt swell isn't clipped and the haft isn't a club for size so for sure it wasn't made yesterday.
 
Found this yesterday, i was freaking excited to find that HB for 10 buck and even more to finally find a crosspeen hammer and for only 10 bucks! that steel chisel was 5, all around the best haul of the year so far!

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The HB hatchet had époxy filling in the eye which is hate, so ill have to redo it all but overall, its in pretty good shape!
 
Remzy said:
The HB hatchet had époxy filling in the eye which is hate, so ill have to redo it all but overall, its in pretty good shape!
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This would have been made during the mid-1980s. I bought a brand new HB (axe version) for my brother-in-law in 1983 that did not have an epoxied eye and Steve Tall's sleuthing indicates that 1988 was when the company changed it's strategy over to niche axes (no more n. American patterns by 1990) without smoothed/painted heads or epoxied eyes.
 
300Six said:
...1988 was when the company changed it's strategy over to niche axes (no more n. American patterns by 1990) without smoothed/painted heads or epoxied eyes.
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The reference to 1988 was for Gransfors Bruk. I haven't seen anything about the year when HB stopped using epoxy.
 
To be perfectly honest, i dont really care about the hultbruks, the crosspeen is what got my blood pumping, its freaking hard to find a vintage one in such a good condition around here! :D the hatchet was a added bonus!
 
Steve Tall said:
The reference to 1988 was for Gransfors Bruk. I haven't seen anything about the year when HB stopped using epoxy.
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Whoops! Guess I'm pretty good at mistaking G-Bs for H-Bs and vice versa. Next time I visit with the brother-in-law I'll see if he still has the Swede something-or-other I gave him.
 
rbeggs said:
Just got this later model single bit with a label on it but no stamp (unless its under the label) with rounded lobes and some red paint still left on the handle. Is this a later Plumb? Any ideas?
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That looks like a Cooper era plumb all American label.
 
300Six said:
Pretty looking, clean as it gets and a Jersey pattern to boot! rbeggs if this is an NOS Plumb (and might as well be) evidence of a wood-wedged eye VS red epoxied eye will help narrow things down as to age, as to pre 1956 or after. Nothing assured about this but does make a difference. What else can you glean off the label? The butt swell isn't clipped and the haft isn't a club for size so for sure it wasn't made yesterday.
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Thanks 300six for the info, Yes its a nice one never sharpened but does have a couple chips in the bit. The wedge is wood, no epoxy. I was planning to clean it up a little and pass it on but im really liking the shorter handle and like you said it is a Jersey!
 
Got this stuff today for $110. Nice book ends, huh? Also, my first swage block, happy with that find.

 
I can see where a guy might think that is a swag block but I suspect it is nothing more than scrap metal. I will dispose of that properly for ya JB.
 
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