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cooperhill said:
Left to right:

Unknown CT $4
Breck's Victor $8 (this is a brand not the company I think. I had a Breck's Victor and it was OLD).
Unknown possibly Maine axe $5

Stopped in at another antique store in Mass.

Me: How much for these (1 axe, 1 hatchet, 1 cleaver)?.
Owner: $20.
Me: How much for just the hatchet (a Tommy Axe with the claws nipped off)?
Owner: $15.

Sometimes I walk away because I don't like the owner's vibe. Also, it looked like the axe (a rusty jersey) could have had a crack.
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Nice haul on the ones you did get.
I know what you mean about the owner's vibe. The tool could be infected with it.
 
Thanks.

Cleaned up the Mainer turns out to be a Rixford! My first. The poll is really banged up. Not sure what to do with it as the stamp is right up in the mushrooming. Looks like someone hit the top of the axe as well.

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The Breck's Victor cleaned up nice too:

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cooperhill said:
...Breck's Victor $8 (this is a brand not the company I think. I had a Breck's Victor and it was OLD)...
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Curiosity led me to look up the company history (from Wikipedia):

"Joseph Breck (1794–1873) was born in Medfield, Massachusetts. He founded his business, Joseph Breck & Company, in 1818, in Boston, Massachusetts...In 1840, Breck published his company’s first catalog, the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store Catalogue, to promote his company’s products...Breck bought a house in Brighton, MA, in 1854 and lived there until his death. The company continued through the years as a garden supply company. In the 1950s, Luther Adams “Bo” Breck, the fifth-generation Breck, transformed the family business into a Dutch bulb importer and flower bulb catalog company... The company still exists today as Breck's." [Brecks.com now sells bulbs and perennials.]

I wonder who made their axes, and when they stopped selling them (1950s?).

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cooperhill said:
The poll is really banged up. Not sure what to do with it as the stamp is right up in the mushrooming.
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If you have an anvil you might be able to push some of that back in at low heat ~150° - 200°F. Remember, it was cold when it got pushed there. It doesn't have to be at forging temperature to get some of it to go back. A 20 minute soak in warm oven would make the metal move a little easier. Hold it with a pair of vise grips and work it on some improvised anvil.
 
I passed on axes at our local pusher today. once was a nice Homestead (Collins, right?), but there were other things to be had. Ooooh, and we may have discovered a nice cache of Disston saws. Dunno enough saw terminology to give a type. I'd call 'em a 'crosscut saw', but for carpentry not felling.
 
Steve Tall said:
Curiosity led me to look up the company history (from Wikipedia):

"Joseph Breck (1794–1873) was born in Medfield, Massachusetts. He founded his business, Joseph Breck & Company, in 1818, in Boston, Massachusetts...In 1840, Breck published his company’s first catalog, the New England Agricultural Warehouse and Seed Store Catalogue, to promote his company’s products...Breck bought a house in Brighton, MA, in 1854 and lived there until his death. The company continued through the years as a garden supply company. In the 1950s, Luther Adams “Bo” Breck, the fifth-generation Breck, transformed the family business into a Dutch bulb importer and flower bulb catalog company... The company still exists today as Breck's." [Brecks.com now sells bulbs and perennials.]

I wonder who made their axes, and when they stopped selling them (1950s?).
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Ah well, I'm not convinced this is the same company. Maybe someone took over the line / brand name. This was (I sold it) my Breck's Victor axe. I think one of the same line as in your posts above. Very old:

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Another reason for this theory is this ( a Collins and Co. Legitimus clearly labeled "Breck's Victor":

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cooperhill said:
Ah well, I'm not convinced this is the same company. Maybe someone took over the line / brand name. ...Another reason for this theory is this ( a Collins and Co. Legitimus clearly labeled "Breck's Victor"...
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I think it's the same company getting their axes made by one or more makers (similar to Husqvarna axes, some early ones with the HB mark from Hults Bruks, and some better-looking ones made by Wetterlings, but without the Wetterlings mark).
 
Good stuff fellows and good work as usual Steve. That's some interesting info :)
I tell ya, things seem to have dried up around these parts :(
I went to one of my favorite pawn shops last week. He had nothing and said that he sold his last hatchet the week before last.
 
Cool stuff. Those straight edges are for checking/flattening crosscut saws, aren't they?

I have one of those protractor tri-squares. Yours is the second one I've seen.
 
Did some trading today.
A little Vaughn & Bushnell hewing hatchet, Collins cruiser and a AA&T CO axe its a little over 3 1/2lbs.
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This is a Hibbard boys axe I traded for also.
 
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Some Days are great:) 6"6"bucker 5'5 faller. Keen Kutter single buck. Warren 6# Maul. Broad axes, the Hatchet has a A mark?
Dog gone it Moose...
Your treading around in MY territory again
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I was in Idaho this time:thumbup:
 
The one-man Keen Kutter is interesting. The teeth make a straight line - no curve at all. And it's narrow like a felling saw. Designed to accept wedges ASAP? What's your take on that saw, Doug?
 
Man, I never really find good saws around here. The ones I have and the ones I've cleaned up and sold all came off of ebay.

I like that KK.
 
Square_peg said:
The one-man Keen Kutter is interesting. The teeth make a straight line - no curve at all. And it's narrow like a felling saw. Designed to accept wedges ASAP? What's your take on that saw, Doug?
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It has a little curve, Was just bent in picture,A little light,And short teeth, I like cut down Buck saws. But I cant pass up a old saws with etchings.
 
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