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Would like to ID this Hatchet.

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When I was a little kid I use to tag along with an older brother and his friends when they went out exploring distant woodlands and old farmsteads. Often they came back with old tools they found. Quite often they would ditch me miles from home and being clueless as to where I was, I wouldn't get home until dark and often got an $#% whipping for missing supper. Back then it was a safer world then what exists today and little kids were pretty safe out in rural areas. On one such trip in 1967, I found this on an abandoned farm in what was left of a collapsed barn in Bellleville, Illinois. My father grew up in the same area and said the farm was abandoned "sometime during the war" which would have been during World War II but couldn't remember who might have lived there.
There are no markings on the hatchet head or handle. If you might know something about this kind of hatchet please feel free to reply. Thanks in advance.
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What it won't be is 'made in Taiwan, China or Mexico' Lots of life left in that one. Many of the big makers offered no-names to large chains who would then affix their own paper label.
 
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