Should i pick this up for $15?

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JoeNorlund

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Saw this at an antique store I passed on it but I am doubting myself now...

What do you guys think? It looks like it would clean up nice.. just don't know how rare or the AGE of it...


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Jump! Very hard to make a serious mistake on an intact and non-abused tool for $15 when you consider what that $15 will get you at a hardware store new these days. That there is an ID stamp (which I can't make out) on the blade should already be worth $15 when it comes to being a collector item.
 
That stamp is OVB in a shield. I have a hatchet with the same stamp, and an axe with a larger version. Both in the back room waiting for me to do something with them. Our Very Best was a hardware store brand, I'm unsure as to who actually made them. One of the serious collectors will have more information, surely. If I was in the market for a sheetrock hatchet (what that appears to be to me) to use while making a living I'd jump on it, new stuff wouldn't come close. For adding to the collection I might try a lower offer and see what happened.
 
Nothing a wire brush & some naval jelly can't make look good. Or leave it like that and hang it on the wall. Wall Axe Art!
 
I have no need for a lathing hatchet as I have never laid a plaster wall, but I would snag that in a heartbeat
 
It would have to have a very special etch or stamp for me to buy it. Does anyone collect them hatchets? Or even use them?
 
Jump at it, for the price you can't really go wrong, get a project and at the end of it what is probably a very nice tool.
 
Is perchance a lathe hatchet mid way in heft between a drywall hammer/hatchet and a shingler's hatchet?
 
A lathing hatchet is made to nail and cut small strips of wood to studs to make something for plaster to grab onto. It was used long before drywall.
 
The lathing hatchet may be interesting and cheap....But, what are you going to do with it after spending 15 bucks and a few hours of work to get it cleaned up?

I would think it would be a much better deal at $5.

Tom
 
smith357 said:
A lathing hatchet is made to nail and cut small strips of wood to studs to make something for plaster to grab onto. It was used long before drywall.
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I am sorry to have 'put you out' my good man. I am perfectly well aware of 'lathe and plaster', as well as lead pipe, Oakum gum for cast iron pipe joints, and 'knob and tube' wiring.

Plaster board was an intermediary of 'drywall' in the mid to late 40s and during the 50s and quickly? (over the course of 10 years) made obsolete the hundreds of thousands of separated slats of wood that some poor slob carpentry apprentice was turned loose on and had to nail on to wall studs and floor and ceiling joists in advance of the 'base' and then the 'scratch coat' of plaster. Electric chop saws (and most other electric tools aside from primitive table saws) did not exist at the time and a sharp hammer/hatchet would have been indispensable.

All I was asking is how does a drywall hammer and a roofer's hatchet compare in weight to a lathe 'tool'.
 
I went anpd found my picture, mine are not exactly like yours. They are useful when camping though - hatchet on one side and hammer for tent stakes on the other:
 
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