Axe I found...

[Canotrouge]

This summer, wile driving to the put in of our Big Salmon river trip, the South Canol rd was being plowed(dirt rd) and I saw something sticking out of the mud... So I stopped and the thing was a small axe, in good shape and look to be quite old and of good quality, so I picked it up.

I played with it this weekend and I think it will clean up nicely, the haft is still in great shape and I managed to remove it w/o killing it!! I even mange to take the steel wedge out and so I will clean every thing and reuse all but the wooden wedge!!

I will clean it all up, make it nice and gift it to my 9 years old daughter!!

If any one have a bit of info of that axe, mainly how old it can be....

 

[Guest]

A start here:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/827412-Flint-Edge

 

[Canotrouge]

Thank you Mike... Could be pretty generic axe, and maybe not really old even if the haft is really nicely shaped and that the grain is running the right way!!

 

[sweeper]

I found this:

One of the major players, if not THE major player in axe history, Kelly has defiently made a place for itself it axe lore.

Here is a quick, perhaps not 100% accurate timeline run down - but shoudl be pretty close :

1875-76 - Old man WC Kelly gets things going - but not with axes at first
1896 - moves to alexandria indiana (Kelly Axe and Mfg Co)
1904 - moves to Charleston, WVa - Mfg Co and Tool Co names both used, some confusion here)
1921 - buys out the AATCo
1930 - bought out by AFHoeCo (now Kelly Axe and Tool Works)
1949 - realinged to True Temper name
1987 - Kelly Line sold to Barco Industries, Pa.

@http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/887793-Kelly-Axe-Mfg-Co-Tool-Co-Tool-Works-True-Temper

 

[Canotrouge]

I found this:

One of the major players, if not THE major player in axe history, Kelly has defiently made a place for itself it axe lore.

Here is a quick, perhaps not 100% accurate timeline run down - but shoudl be pretty close :

1875-76 - Old man WC Kelly gets things going - but not with axes at first
1896 - moves to alexandria indiana (Kelly Axe and Mfg Co)
1904 - moves to Charleston, WVa - Mfg Co and Tool Co names both used, some confusion here)
1921 - buys out the AATCo
1930 - bought out by AFHoeCo (now Kelly Axe and Tool Works)
1949 - realinged to True Temper name
1987 - Kelly Line sold to Barco Industries, Pa.

@http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/887793-Kelly-Axe-Mfg-Co-Tool-Co-Tool-Works-True-Temper

Cool, so anywhere from 1950 to 1987....

 

[sweeper]

They still make them

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Union-To...75035&wl11=online&wl12=29756796&wl13=&veh=sem

 

[Robin]

Nice find. Better than store bought imo, it has a history somewhere and now it will have a story that your daughter will tell around campfires to her friends and family.