It followed me home

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picked up this new old stock double bit handle this weekend. It's nice and thin.

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also saw a Kelly's Worlds Finest CT today for $20. Original handle and all. Sadly the eye was deformed (Bulged). Couldn't swing myself to buy it.
 
Spent a lotta time lurking on BF, mostly in another sector. This sector is giving me a lot of food for thought -- some of you have some really beautiful axes!

I was in rural Alberta earlier this month and picked up a couple of usin' heads in a second-hand shop for $20. One is a double bit that's pitted enough I can't read a name or maker's mark on it.

The other is this one, which is just telling me enough to be interesting:



This is a four-pounder, verified by the scale and by the stamping you see here:



This is the best view of it I can get with a decent camera and polarized light. Can somebody take a stab at guessing the maker?

What I can see pretty clearly is: (probably some letters)STE(probably one more letter). It looks to me under a magnifying glass as though there are two "S"s together, but I can only see a little of the top curve of the first S, if that's what it is.

That would make "----SSTE--"

Does that ring a bell with anyone? I've looked at lists of axe maker names searching for that combination of letters and so far come up empty. One guy said he thought it was European but being stamped "4" seems to say North America (U.S. or Canadian) maker to me.

While I'm on the topic, two others followed me home this month, an NOS Walters double-bit from a logging equipment place going out of business and selling their backroom, and a Sager double-bit (just stamped "Sager" with no date...guessing it was from the Collins era?) for $5 at the Re-Store outlet.

So I've got three handles to make in the near future. They'll all go on the rack with my regular axe (Hultsbruks 3.5#), a couple of old pulaskis that I carried back in my timber-beast days, my Dad's old Stiletto broad-hatchet, and a 1.75# cruiser-weight that I use for splittin' kindlin' for the woodstove and my wife's cookstove.

Regular intro to follow sometime when I remember :D

Skiv
 
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looks european - german or swedish. could be Canadian though.

welcome to the forum. pictures of that NOS walters please.
 
I was in one of the local thrift/antique shops (mostly thrift), looking for some nice axe heads. No axe heads worth spending money on, but I did find this. It's lightly used with one very small nick in the blade. Since I'm kind of a Kelly guy, I allowed it to follow me home.

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I'd sure love to find one of their axes but until then this will hold their marker in my collection.

Seattle Hardware Co. - Occident pick.

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Had a good weekend of garage saling for a change.
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A newer crap Collins, Wood slasher cruiser, Red Warrior, flint edge, a rafting axe head that may not have a name and a Columbian vice.
 
Out of the Spring and Summer I have 5 nice axes or heads from Flea market, zero from yard sales and the Local Goodwills have not had one axe. Finally talked to a guy that worked as a sorter and he was told there to throw sharp items in dumpster! Axes, hatchets, machetes and handsaws. I managed ONE large miter saw.

I need to travel to a better grade of flea market.

Bill
 
Square_peg said:
I'd sure love to find one of their axes but until then this will hold their marker in my collection.

Seattle Hardware Co. - Occident pick.

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That looks like some really good steel. Never heard of the company. I'll definitely be watching for their products.
 
lmalterna said:
Out of the Spring and Summer I have 5 nice axes or heads from Flea market, zero from yard sales and the Local Goodwills have not had one axe. Finally talked to a guy that worked as a sorter and he was told there to throw sharp items in dumpster! Axes, hatchets, machetes and handsaws. I managed ONE large miter saw.

I need to travel to a better grade of flea market.

Bill
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Or become a Good Will sorter.
 
I thought about offering to volunteer some time sorting there!! My oldest son is the one that worked an assignment there- he saw plenty of things he wanted but super warned him to toss them. I would definitely be willing to raise someones take home pay for some axes and hatchets to play with. Imagine a Lincoln Axe getting tossed to the dumpster. Not likely but heartbreaking to think about.

Local flea market has mostly no names with bad chips or ground out toes- and few enough of even those. I would fair better if I did not work so many weekends and could go to some larger annual meets.

Bill
 
We give a lot of stuff to the good will in our area, this makes me wonder how much of it ends up in the trash. We've always thought it better to just give it to someone that can use it than try and sell it in a yard sale or something
 
tag sale / antique store run today.

brush axe $5. bought for the handle pretty much. Says Rixford on the handle.

Maine style ax. not sure of the maker yet.

Carborundum slip in mint condition. $1



 
Cooperhill you are the picking king around here. Love the hafts on both of those axes. Be interesting to see if a Rixford stamp shows up on that brush axe when you clean it up.
 
That Maine style is beautiful Coop. I could see that baby cleaned up with one of those cool Coop stickers. ;)
 
That axe is really nice Cooperhill. Is that one of those rounded wedge caps, or the handle just sticking out a little? If it's a rounded cap, it possibly is Peavey Mfg.
 
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