Looking for help with info on this axe/hatchet.

Tom Murdock said:
Was going through my hammer drawer in one of my toolboxes and came across this. I know it’s a PI Schmidt from Elberfeld Germany. Looking for any info and what type of axe or hatchet would this have been used for?

Thanks for any help,
Tom

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Beilpicke
https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/249855-german-pioneers-axe/
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Tom Murdock said:
Just came across this. Could it be a German war Hatchet?
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Not even remotely except in the fantasies of some detached individuals.

There has even been a recent posting here on the axe forum of one of these axes, a super shinny and polished up version if I remember it right. The axe is not something I'd claim much knowledge about but mostly when coming across them on the periphery they are called, along with the generally descriptive beilpicke label, feuerwehrbeil. So we can be confident, and I never had reason to doubt, that is a reasonable, ( compared to "war hatchet"🥱), explanation of this type of axe.
 
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