Marble's what?

Thomas Linton

Thomas Linton

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This was a slight risk off ePrey. Turns out the light area on the cheeks was sliver paint. Handle not close to fitting.
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The head is 2 3/8" tall at the edge, 4 1/4" back to front, 1 7/8" tall at the eye, with a 1 1/4 x 9/16" eye (Marble's three tube).
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Marked in the usual place Marble's/GLADSTONE, MICH., U.S.A.
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Suggestions as to what model head this is?
 
I have a number 6. I'll measure it when I get home. There's replacement handles on eBay. Search for hatchet handle. It's a goat's foot handle.
 
Thank you! I always wondered what a Marbles "game getter" was all about and looked like. Apparently these were hardware store over-the-counter items in Canada at one time but are currently outright 'prohibited/restricted" and in the same category as AR-15's and handguns. Woodsmen and trappers loved them because they readily carried in a pack and were handy to dispatch live or wounded animals, or pot the odd rabbit or partridge when the opportunity arose. I'm also told they were easy and inexpensive enough to get that poachers hung them in trees along game trails and attached them to trip wires, and that that was where their ominous reputation began.
 
Whittling out a new handle to fit snug in the eye of a Marbles axe would be an extra challenge. Were these heads solid cast/forged and then drilled out to create an eye? Or was this done to ensure that Marbles wood shop cornered the market for replacement handles.
 
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Now that the infamous Game Getter caught my attention I'm really at a loss why they got such a bum rap. Folding stock on an 18 inch stack barrel, one of which is not rifled; big deal. Trying to stuff one down your pants in preparation for a bank heist would be complete foolishness, or suicide. But collectors have really gotten into these; $1500-3000 for a 'clean' one.
Were you the custodian of a Game Getter in Canada (and it hadn't been impounded or confiscated somewhere along the way) you'd be stuck with having it officially registered with gov't and having to upgrade to a 'restricted' category firearms license and then having to apply for an ATT (authorization to transport) just to be able to plink with it at an official range. All this for a low powered (22RF & 410) piece that is capable of 'loosing off' maybe 8-10 rounds a minute!
Sorry for the side-track. Marbles Co. has to be unique in that they made axes, and guns. Plumb, Kelly, Collins and the others pretty much stuck to what they were good at.
 
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My number 6 measures 4 5/8" long. Bit is 2 11/16". Eye is 1 1/4" long.
 
Damage could explain the loss of 1/4" of length of head and the heel sicking out more than the toe.

Despite the tempered poll, it is somewhat deformed around the edges. Poor baby!
 
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