Masback Hardware Company

crbnSteeladdict · Oct 8, 2017

http://www.waltergrutchfield.net/masback.htm
Any idea what company actually produced Mosbakc's private line of "Red Diamond" axes?
https://books.google.com/books?id=7...WAhVPziYKHVuoAiQQ6AEIMjAC#v=onepage&q=Masback red diamond&f=false

Steve Tall · Oct 8, 2017

We can play "Guess the Maker" for the examples below, based on various details, stamp location, etc., but Masback could have changed its axe maker several times over the decades since it first used the Red Diamond trademark in 1930 (according to the trademark registration).

Hickory n steel · Oct 8, 2017

The eye on that half hatchet sure is something I've never seen before.

crbnSteeladdict · Oct 8, 2017

Hickory n steel said:
The eye on that half hatchet sure is something I've never seen before.

It looks similar to my Sid Axworthy hatchet https://imgur.com/crBfUQQ
https://imgur.com/uU0BGtb

Hickory n steel · Oct 8, 2017

crbnSteeladdict said:
It looks similar to my Sid Axworthy hatchet https://imgur.com/crBfUQQ
https://imgur.com/uU0BGtb

It's not in the picture, but us the eye an oval on your hatchet ?

crbnSteeladdict · Oct 8, 2017

Hickory n steel said:
It's not in the picture, but us the eye an oval on your hatchet ?

You are totally right: Steve's hatchet eye looks oval . I do not have access to that sid axworthy right now but I bet the eye is NOT oval

crbnSteeladdict · Jul 28, 2020

Steve Tall said:
We can play "Guess the Maker" for the examples below, based on various details, stamp location, etc., but Masback could have changed its axe maker several times over the decades since it first used the Red Diamond trademark in 1930 (according to the trademark registration).

Looking at double bit posted by Steve Tall 3 years ago. I think I see straight electric weld lines. At least some of double bit Red Diamonds were made by Vaughan.