A Trade Axe?
 

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

Length overall is 8.5".

Thoughts?

Looks more like a replica roman legionary dolabra pick axe.

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.

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

Represented by who?

Have you read through this? ~
https://www.furtradetomahawks.com/fa...pros---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/n...-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.

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.