Recognize the Stamp on this Old Hatchet?

Cute! But that fellow hasn't seen a file or stone in years.
More and more I'm seeing that maker's stamps or marks are not always located on the port side (left hand when you're holding the assembled article) of an axe. To me that in itself is already curious. Was there ever any manufacturers spoken or unspoken convention about this? Any and all of my striking tools (and knives) are marked only on the port side and with only the occasional letter or mark to be found on the other (starboard).
 
Any possibility of getting a closer shot of the imprint so we have a better look at the lettering/striking under that W or M ??
 
Thanks guys. I wouldn't even spend the time but since it was moms I'd like to know. Here are some pics. Nothing on the port side. Almost looks like a star under the W on the left. Wizard? That's a WAG. Could be a Chinese piece for all I know.



 
It's a keeper nevertheless, for you. If your mom is still cooking perhaps you can get some idea of when she bought it or what the origins of it are. I doubt (for instance) you'll find much Chinese stuff from the 1960s. My dad (who is no connoisseur of fine tools) went out and bought an inexpensive new axe in the early 60s (I was with him when he did it) but that one has Sandvik stamped on it.
 
Mom passed away in 2000 at the age of 80. Our family is from Alaska so mom knew how to process wood, butcher fish (they didn't call it "cleaning fish"), shoot a gun and all the other stuff Alaska women do. I don't know if she got this from my grandfather when he passed away or picked it up in Pt. Angeles, WA where we lived after Alaska. Still, for sentimental reasons I'm going to sharpen it and use it. I'd like to think its American made. :p
 
If it came from up north I wonder if that was a Welland Vale stamp of some sort. I doubt it but I consider everything when trying to dig in.
 
Got me guys. Really got me thinking now. Did some digging on Google but could not find a match. The "W" kind of looks like the W in Winchester but they always spell out the whole name.......right?
 
I don't know much of anything at all about axes but if you look at it upside down it looks like an M with 1 3/4 marked under it. Hope that helps. Nice looking hatchet though!
 
Never looked at it like that because everything about that direction is upside down and backwards. But it DOES look like a 1 3/4 stamp......but very rough. Now, what's the M? Mexico?
 
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