A Trade Axe?

[Ed]

This was represented as a trade axe used during colonial times in the US.

Length overall is 8.5".

Thoughts?

[kronckew]

Looks more like a replica roman legionary dolabra pick axe.

[adrian]

This was represented as a trade axe used during colonial times in the US.
Length overall is 8.5". Thoughts?

I think you will find that it's a slate roofing hammer.
The blade for cropping them to length when needed and the point for making the clout holes.

[fernando]

So let's see how it develops in the Miscellania Forum.

[C4RL]

Represented by who?

Have you read through this? ~
https://www.furtradetomahawks.com/fakes-mistakes--repros---17.html

If you click on the menu there's 31 pages of hawk/hatchet information.


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[Ed]

Represented by who?

Have you read through this? ~
https://www.furtradetomahawks.com/fakes-mistakes--repros---17.html

If you click on the menu there's 31 pages of hawk/hatchet information.


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As I recall, I got this from Bill Guthman when I lived in Westport Ct. Bill and I got friendly and I bought a number of things from him.
https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/noted-scholar-and-dealer-william-h-guthman-dies/
Good guy. Wrote an interesting article on fakes that I am still trying to locate.

Found the illustration below (thanks for the reference). Looks like they are pretty darn close. Mine weighs 6.5 oz.

[Lee]

I am, unfortunately, suspicious of the manner in which this axe head was made, as it appears to be a product of a more modern casting process rather than hand forging. Axes, like spears, can be so difficult because the same forms reoccur in many times and places.

I bought what was supposed to be a frontiersman's belt axe (for disassembling game, etc.) at a country auction at a genuinely old house in upstate New York. I sent images to Mr. Miller, whose fur trade tomahawk site is linked above, and he suggested it was instead a reworking of a small claw hammer. XRF was very consistent with that interpretation. The estate was that of a former re-enactor who dabbled in blacksmithing.