My pleasure! and it was fun research! I was pretty excited finding the link online with the pertinent data with clues. These kinds of things are pretty hard to match, and typically blacksmith oriented it seems deviations might have been likely, as noted often axes were entities unto themselves.
In the 18th century the colonists were mostly British of course, and typically supplies were from England. Even after the end of the Revolution, the colonists were culturally British, and arms into the colonies largely of British make.
Naturally there came to be colonial makers from just prior to the Revolution and increasingly after, but largely imported arms.
Thats why Neumann's book is such a treasure trove of info on European weapon forms.
Yours is distinctly 18th c.. IMO.
Thank you for the note on the Highland basket hilts, and hearts. That was years ago on most of that research, and I was trying to discover the background of the heart in pierced cutouts in typically Glasgow hilts.
As near as found, I thought it to be a Jacobite secret symbol, but its wider use seemed to make that rather tenuous.
Its interesting your note on hearts on the belts of the Black Watch, I had never heard of that! The carrying of belt axes in America by the 42nd is not surorising. The 'S' in the heart is compelling.
Always learning! Thank you!
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