Pre-Purchase Axe Info Please

[marbat]

Has anybody seen a axe or hatchet with a Reindeer stamp on it and if so any info about them?
Fella selling a few axes including a True Temper Black Prince for $8 each and he has a couple other ones. Worth it?

 

[Steve Tall]

This deer stamp is Made In China:

As I started to clean up this head, an interesting stamp started to emerge. It appears to be an antelope or a deer set against a small circle. What I find really odd, however, is the "Made in China" script that surrounds it, together with a Mandarin character.

The degree of rust on the head--together with the aged splinters of wood inside the eye--suggest that this axe head wasn't exactly made yesterday. I generally associate "Made in China" with recent, lower-quality production...but perhaps that isn't the case here.

Has anyone here seen such an axe head before? Any ideas as to its origin or date of manufacture? I'm quite curious to know what I have here, and any assistance is greatly appreciated.

 

[Steve Tall]

If the deer stamp matches either of these, it's made in Germany::

If it looks like this, it was made by Gebrüder Busch, Remscheid (Germany):

http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/hirsch.phtml

Found in this "Database of marks used by manufacturers and merchants of woodworking tools; Current content: 648 German and European marks." After clicking on US flag for English language, entered "deer" as the detail.
http://www.holzwerken.de/museum/hersteller/markensuche.phtml

 

[marbat]

Good info, good to know. Thankyou. I have not seem this axe yet in person.

 

[Curt Hal]

Looks like it says Made in China. Jump all over the Black Prince, however.

 

[marbat]

Yeah it was the made in China one, left it there but came home with The Prince, an Iltis and a Plumb head.
So far have the Black Prince re-hefted on it's original handle and just about done restoring it.

 

[marbat]

Sorry, double post due to computer issues.

 

[markv]

some of those obscure Chinese axes are pretty good steel
just saying

 

[gben]

Did Buck Brothers ever make an axe or hatchet with a deer-head mark? I have a hammer, a straight razor, a wood plane and many chisels from them and many of them have a deer-head.

 

[marbat]

The one I saw was as the first picture Steve Tall posted. Googling didn't show a deer head mark during my search.

 

[rjdankert]

Did Buck Brothers ever make an axe or hatchet with a deer-head mark? . . .

Interesting question. I have some chisels with the deer head logo.

1831 -- R. T. (Richard Taylor) Buck born on October 1.

1875 -- R. T. copyrights the Buck's Head logo and starts marking tools with this logo. Thus, if your chisel has a Buck's Head on it, it was made on or after 1875, although not all the chisels made after 1875 has the logo

Quotes from: http://sawnutz.galootcentral.com/buck/

Found this and another like it. Marked BUCK BROS, but no deer head.

Bob