Need Help Identifying an Old Broad Axe

[Peter_C137]

Hey Everyone,
I am need of some help. I was given some old hand tools, one of which being an old axe. I was able to identify it as a broad axe, but am unsure the mfg who originally crafted it. Typically I would look for some trade markings, but all I was able to find is an old B circled on the one side. I have looked, but no luck on finding the MFG. The person who gave me the axe said she got it up in Canada years ago at an old barn sale.
Knowing the original manufacturer would be really interesting, as I would like to restore it make it look like new again.

Thanks for the help! It is really appreciated!

 

[Hickory n steel]

Hey Everyone,
I am need of some help. I was given some old hand tools, one of which being an old axe. I was able to identify it as a broad axe, but am unsure the mfg who originally crafted it. Typically I would look for some trade markings, but all I was able to find is an old B circled on the one side. I have looked, but no luck on finding the MFG. The person who gave me the axe said she got it up in Canada years ago at an old barn sale.
Knowing the original manufacturer would be really interesting, as I would like to restore it make it look like new again.

Thanks for the help! It is really appreciated!

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[Steve Tall]

... B circled on the one side...got it up in Canada years ago at an old barn sale...

Here's an axe-maker from Canada that had a circled-B mark:

E. Broad & Sons (St. Stephen Edge Tool Co.)
St. Stephen, N.B. 1883- 1900
Shipwrights axes, chisels, hammers, sledgehammers and mining picks
Workers: 15 (1884) 20 (1895)
capital: $15,000 (1885); production value: $15,000 (1885);
took over the Douglas Axe Manufacturing Co. in 1885;
became a corporation in 1891; capital: $40,000 (1891);
taken over in 1900 by an American company named Mann, and became known as Maritime Edge Tool Co.

from INVENTORY OF MAJOR CANADIAN TOOL AND DIE MANUFACTURERS FROM 1820 TO 1914


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http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2014/01/we-used-to-make-things-in-this-country_20.html

 

[300Six]

Far out, Steve. Any chance a 'Broad' pattern axe is where the descriptive name originated? And if so what were they referred to as before.

 

[Shaun Joyce]

Do you still have the axe? Im interested in purchasing any tool that bear the Douglas axe, or E Broad that was manufactured in st. Stephen, nb canada.