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So, I've found very little in the form of information about the very old axes marked with three diamonds with tba stamped in them. Besides the fact that a very few seem to pop up here and there. Well that changed today. There's a local Maine axe guru that attends the auctions I go to.. I picked up a nice wedge pattern solidly hafted on a 27" handle with the full metal top type wedge needed little sharpening.. Good score I think for $12. It has a p stamped in front of and a 27 stamp behind the bottom of the eye. A 4 stamped on the middle of the right cheek and the three diamonds with tba stamped up near the poll on the same side. I would think that all these marks led in to be an Emerson and Stevens/spiller and that assumption is correct! These were made for a hardware store out of Portland Maine called Talbot Brooks And Ayer by Emerson and Stevens. The guru had found this information from some old catalog he had collected years ago is what I think he said. So there if anyone else was wondering there's another little piece of information for axe identification. And if the "guru" is on here, thanks again it's much appreciated
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