A group of axes

CutlassCollector · 1st March 2013, 12:29 PM

Great to see so many axes and thanks Mark for starting the thread, I particularly like your spiked trappers tomahawk.

Possibly Junker or the group can answer a question for me concerning the fire axe the lower one in his picture. I have seen an almost identical one sold at auction as an 18/19th century German boarding axe and I have also seen it pictured as a German trench axe from WW1 on the net. Is it a German government model used across different services? I know these questions are not always easy to answer but it has puzzled me for a while.

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1st March 2013, 12:29 PM	#18
CutlassCollector Member Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Scotland Posts: 343	Great to see so many axes and thanks Mark for starting the thread, I particularly like your spiked trappers tomahawk. Possibly Junker or the group can answer a question for me concerning the fire axe the lower one in his picture. I have seen an almost identical one sold at auction as an 18/19th century German boarding axe and I have also seen it pictured as a German trench axe from WW1 on the net. Is it a German government model used across different services? I know these questions are not always easy to answer but it has puzzled me for a while. CC