Lets see if I can get the all correct left to right. I'm sorry to say that I did have a few all nice and shiny but did not keep them up. 1. Germantown 2 .Collins 3. Unknown- home made sheath with base board plastic stressed with torch held together with copper rivets 4. Official Boy Scouts Plumb 5. True Value that I grew up with 6. unknown 7. Fulton - same type of sheath as 3 8. Splitting axe 18th century? only ref I could find was in a book "An Ax To Grind" page 9 9. unknown 10. my beater/root axe - cheapo with the glue in head 11. Railroad - no name 12. My favorite - Old school forged 18 lb with handle beast. Nail a wedge with it and things move!!!
Nice collection. I'll have to dig up a pic of my antique tomahawk /trade axe collection. Some date to the late 1500-early 1600s, some in the 1700s and some in the early 1800s...
Nice collection you have there. Number 6 looks to be a carpenters adze for hewing logs. Number 8 I believe is a ship builders hatchet. I saw a similar one in an Eric Sloane book and found some information. The peg poll end was used to set nails and spikes on a ships wooden ribs. The hatchet was used after to shape the rib to accept the planking. I could be off though.
Newest estate sale score - 2 coal miner picks. I know the rest of the stuff in the pics is non related but was all part of a $10 bundle ( 2 picks, few files, 10" R.H Forschner butcher knife with rose wood handle, sharpening stone and 436 piece nitrile o-ring set-not in pic). With a little grinding, I think the blunted one may turn into a pickaroon.
