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Originally Posted by JoeCanada42
Hi everyone, I just picked this up today, won it at a local auction, I think it could be as old as 18c, i think it may be called a belt axe or a hammer pole axe, I cant find any markings on the rusted axe head, it has also been painted at one point, a green almost blue color, quick search into the possibility of the color being significant turned out to be interesting. I acquired it in PEI Canada.
anybody with knowledge on the subject to share? thanks
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its a modern carpenters hatchet probably post ww2.. older once are more fancy and a more complex consturciton in the head ther eis for example on the old handforged ones some style to the bevelling of the surfaces .. especially unde rthe beard of the axe. older ones have larger cheeks on the eye that extend down somewhat below the socket