OLD AXE ....but what type ? Tabar ?

katana · 20th April 2009, 12:38 AM

Hi Gene

,
thanks for your comments....a quick search on the net suggets that not all fire axes have the spike. The 'spike-less' type used to break locks or 'batter' the hinges of doors etc.

Interestingly Victorian firemen tended to be recuited from ex-naval personnel ....perhaps that is why the design of axe is often mis-ID'ed as a boarding axe, as the design was more 'familiar' to the 'Tars' and I suppose adopted.

All the best

David

PS I've resigned myself to the fact that the axe is not a weapon

but it is nicely made

.....and it did cost me the princely sum of 30 pence.

...so a little disappointed

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20th April 2009, 12:38 AM	#6
katana Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Kent Posts: 2,658	Hi Gene , thanks for your comments....a quick search on the net suggets that not all fire axes have the spike. The 'spike-less' type used to break locks or 'batter' the hinges of doors etc. Interestingly Victorian firemen tended to be recuited from ex-naval personnel ....perhaps that is why the design of axe is often mis-ID'ed as a boarding axe, as the design was more 'familiar' to the 'Tars' and I suppose adopted. All the best David PS I've resigned myself to the fact that the axe is not a weapon but it is nicely made .....and it did cost me the princely sum of 30 pence. ...so a little disappointed