Tru-Value hardware's line of axes. Not much info out there on them. A google search turned up an ad for Tru-Test in a 1972 Popular Science magazine, and there was a mention of them in a late-50s trade publication. And there is some talk around the WWW of them being made for Tru-Value by Collins, but I did not see any proof of this. The Tru-Value name was owned by none other than Hibbard, Spencer and Bartlett(!) until 1962 when they were bought out and the name adopted by the buyer Cotter and Company. So there is a chance the Tru-Test name may have been used by Hibbard, Spencer and Bartlett before 1962. A major manufacturer probably made the axes for both HS&B and Tru-Value through the decades.
This Tru-Test axe is from the estate of a 90-year-old man and looks like it has had an easy life.
This Tru-Test axe is from the estate of a 90-year-old man and looks like it has had an easy life.

