A Trade Axe?

C4RL · 6th July 2024, 05:25 AM

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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Ed · 6th July 2024, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by C4RL

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.

Lee · 12th July 2024, 11:39 AM

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.

6th July 2024, 05:25 AM	#1
C4RL Member Join Date: Sep 2023 Posts: 50	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. . Last edited by C4RL; 6th July 2024 at 05:50 AM.

12th July 2024, 11:39 AM	#3
Lee EAAF Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Upstate New York, USA Posts: 932	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.