Today's bunch o' axes.

[DarthTaco123]

Welp here's today's findings. Fairly standard stuff, only one that really stands out to me but I can't make out the mark on it, looks to be two peice construction however, and has a good patina. What would y'all say is the most valuable of the haul? Probably going to sell the '30's craftsman (already have one in a Michigan pattern in slightly better condition) and possibly mystery head depending on what it is. On the fence about the homestead, the handle needs some glue for sure, thankfully it has a removable wedge! The true temper doesn't have a TT stamp (that's visible) and appears to maybe have been painted over at one point. Has ridges in the eye, however and has the stamping of B40 (seen it on a few True Temper axes), anyone know what line it might have been?

Top to bottom: Group shot, 1930's Craftsman, Homestead (Collins?), True Temper, and then the mystery head. I've got pictures of the union tool co. and Garant coming. The Garant looks newer, and had vestages of yellow paint at the bottom of the handle. The poor Garant's handle had quite a bit of rot under that tape, thank God the handle was thick, should be able to sand/rasp it down to work. Still has the Garant stamp on the handle (most of it anyways). Has the shape of a mans head in the place of the current handle stamp though. Not sure what era that'd make it.

The True Temper

And the mystery! All I can make out is __E G(C?) & co. I'll have a better look at it soon.

 

[DarthTaco123]

Whoops, double posted. Must have hit reply instead of edit.

 

[300Six]

Garants, to my knowledge, are typically Canadian sold and distributed. I don't think they ever made their own stuff (handles maybe and assembly of shovels/rakes/axes/wheelbarrows etc) and certainly these days they appear to be affiliated with True Temper and Collins.
In 1992 while perusing the Home Hardware axe and maul rack of new Garant-labelled arrivals I stumbled upon 2 Oxhead Iltis Canadian axe heads that Garant had accidentally? put their handles on and painted up to look like all of the others. Needless to say one of those came home with me pronto. A West German Oxhead for the price of an economy axe! In hindsight I guess should have snapped up the second one too.

 

[DarthTaco123]

Think that the mystery axe has been identified, took the pictures to a fairly large axe collector facebook group and incidentally a fellow I met yesterday identified it for me on the group after we parted ways in town. Appears to be made by E. Gammon & Co. who made edge tools in Gorham in the mid 1800s.

The steel on the Garant is good, I'd say somewhere from the 70s-80s but I'm not quite sure. Might gussie her up and put it up for sale.

 

[rockman0]

Nice haul! I like the craftsman.

 

[DarthTaco123]

I really like the Craftsman as well, it's got the beard of a Jersey yet no lugs, I'm not sure if I'll hang on to it (I really like the feel of the handle as well) or sell it. I believe the double ring stamps on Craftsman are from the 30's.

 

[Square_peg]

I believe the double ring stamps on Craftsman are from the 30's.

1930's and into the late 1940's. Here's an image from the 1948 Sears Fall/Winter catalog. It features both the new block lettering and the old double oval stamp.