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1 Here are some of the old ones. The axes are at least pre 1950 USA made as they were mu grandparents and great grandparents. Hatchet is a Plumb and is newer I suspect.
2 This is the only mark I see on one but is too light for me to make out. Any ideas?
3 One with the mark. It's banged some wedges!
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5 Handle split out on this one.
6 This one is the one with a split handle and boy does it have a side bow. Odd with the round ball end too.
7 I used this one and the next a lot as a kid splitting locust.
8 For several years I gave my grandma a Christmas present of splitting the locust in her woods. I chopped it all by hand as well and she called it her beaver wood. It was 2 or 3 trucks a year as I remember. this was in the 1970's before I was allowed to run a chainsaw as I was 8 years old.
9 This one was the one I remember Grandma using. Looks like a handmade handle as is the shortest, lightest in the group. They used to bust used lump coal with them too.
10 Here is a full view of it.
11 Plumb Hatchet
12 This is the oldest one I have. It is a specialty axe.
13 Short throw and it is 15 1/2 inches from end of handle to where it comes through. Cutting edge is 6 inches.
14 14 Handle is offset totally to one side. This was used to hand hewn wood beams before the days of saw mills
