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6th July 2024, 03:06 PM | #1 | |
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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. |
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12th July 2024, 11:39 AM | #2 |
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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. |
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