| Davistown Museum Inventory of Tools - Industrial Revolution - | Axes |
| Other | Status | Location |
| 10407T6 | Double-bitted ax | DTM |
| Drop-forged steel and wood, 7 1/2" long, 3" wide blades, unsigned. |
| An interesting ax made in one of America's hundreds of small ax factories in the late 19th century. |
| 52707T1 | Double-bitted ax | DTM |
| Welded steel with ground and filed steeled edges, 35 1/2" long handle, 10 1/2" long and 3 11/16" wide head with a 5 1/2" |
| curved cutting edge, signed "G53 D/W MS". |
| A nice quality, late 19th century example of a heavy duty, double-bitted, felling ax. |
| 61204T16 | Hatchet | photo | DTM |
| Cast steel and wood, 13 3/4" long including a 11 1/2" handle, 3 1/4" wide cutting edge, 1 3/16" poll, signed "FINDLAY AXE & |
| TOOL CO." "FINDLAY O. U.S.A." "1". |
| The Findlay Axe & Tool Co. is not listed in DATM (1999). This is a rare mark not often found in New England tool chests. |
| Jack Devitt author of "The Who, What, Where and When of Ohio Toolmakers and Their Tools" in 2000 states that "Findlay |
| Axe and Tool Co. was in business in the late 1890s." The Grant Motor Company website indicates that "The Findlay Motor |
| Car Co. produced passenger cars from 1910-13, in the old Findlay Axe and Tool plant at the foot of Santee Avenue." |
| 041505T26 | Hatchet | photo | DTM |
| Drop forged steel and wood, 6 1/2" long, 3 5/8" cutting blade, 1 3/16" diameter poll head face, 13 3/8" long handle, signed |
| "COLLINS & CO" HARTFORD" "LEGITIMUS" with a crown hallmark on the head and a red paper label on the handle stating |
| "COLLINS TOOLS". |
| The Collins Co. was in Canton, later Collinsville, CT from 1826 - 1957. This circa 1950 edge tool is by one of America's most |
| prolific and famous edge toolmakers. An excellent example of a modern all steel edge tool. |
| 12900T7 | Hewing ax | bio | DTM |
| Die cast and drop forged steel, 11 5/8" long, 7 1/2" wide blade, obscured foreign maker's sign and touchmark, ca. 1900 - 1910. |
| An edge tool from the Pyrenees or Alps area of France or Spain that was brought to the US by Kenneth Lynch. |
| 91303T11 | Ice ax | photo | DTM |
| Cast steel with a wooden handle, 11 1/2" long, 2 1/4" wide blade, signed "Wm. T. Wood & Co". |
| A typical ice ax with an atypical short handle. The Harvard Business School Baker Library has a catalog from this company |
| circa 1895: Wm. T. Wood & Co. Manufacturers of ice tools, Arlington, Mass. DATM (1999) lists the working dates of this |
| company as 1845 - 1905. William bought the company from an uncle, Abner Wyman. In 1905, the company merged with |
| the Gifford Brothers to become the Gifford-Wood Co. While the factory was located in Arlington, the offices were in Boston. |
| 12801T12 | Offset hewing ax | bio | photo | DTM |
| Forged iron and weld steel, 6 1/2" long, 5 5/8" wide cutting edge, no handle, signed "JOHN KING" "OAKLAND, ME.". |
| A nice example of a welded steel ax, this is our first example of a John King ax with the imprint in the iron rather than on a |
| paper label. King may have made axes as early as 1877. Follow the bio link to see the comments on John King and the |
| John King Ax Co. in the Registry of Maine Toolmakers. This ax was located by Dana Phillippi of Liberty, Maine at a Burnham |
| auction, October, 2001. |
| 62207T4 | Splitting ax | DTM |
| 6 13/16" long, 3 3/4" wide blade, unsigned. |
| Blacksmith and Farrier's Tools |
| TJD1006 | Blacksmith's rasp | DTM |
| Drop forged iron, 15 11/16" long, 1 5/8" wide, signed "HELLER BROS NEWARK NJ" with its famous horse and farrier 4 touch |
| mark. |
| This tool is unusual because it shows little sign of wear. Heller Brothers was one of the great late-19th century tool |
| manufacturing companies. Rather than being a blacksmith made rasp, this tool is a product of the factory system that arose |
| during and after the Civil War. DATM lists Heller as ca. 1870 f. |
| 50402T9 | Blacksmith's tap | DTM |
| Cast steel?, 3 1/2" long, signed "J M KING" and "14". |
| J. M. King is an early mark of J. M. King & Co., Waterford, NY (1887 - 1910), maker of dies, pliers and taps. (See pg. 151 - |
| 152 of DATM(1999)). |
| 81200T12 | Cross peen hammer | DTM | MHC |
| Drop forged steel, 5" long, 1 1/4" wide peen, 1 3/8" long head, unsigned. |
| A typical late 19th century factory made blacksmith's cross peen. |
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