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Steve & Maree Lehmann's Axe Collection
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Please note that the axes listed here have already found new owners
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| 600 |
Vintage strapped slate roofing hammer with nail pull. 9 x
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| 599 |
Kelly Canada 4 1/2 lb felling axe with white hickory
handle. Steve removed burring to poll. 7 3/4 x 5 x 31", 2.6 kg |
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| 598 |
Collins 4 1/2 or 5 lb Kentucky pattern with slender
hickory handle. Given the type of handle and a total weight of over 6lb
I think the head most likely is 5lb. 8 4 3/4 x 31", 2.7kg |
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| 597 |
Ancient German carpenters broad hatchet with spike/nail
puller and unique offset hammer poll and decorations. Fair for age with
a crack below the heavy ridge going right through the cheek. This
Bavarian design goes back to the 17th century and continued virtually
unchanged right into the 19th century - which makes this a true antique
no matter when it left the smithy. 5 1/2 x 6 x 14", 1.1kg |
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| 596 |
Tuatahi Kingi racing axe with custom made Bob Wood handle
7 1/4 x 7 x 31", 3kg |
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| 595 |
97 True Blue Racer in excellent condition. 7 1/2 x 7 x
30", 2.8kg |
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| 594 |
Little used Sorby coopers broad axe. 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 x 14",
1.3kg |
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| 593 |
Simmons broad axe cut down into side axe with nice fawn's
foot hickory handle. 9 1/2 x 7 x 33", 2.8kg |
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| 592 |
Plumb 4 1/2 lb with hardwood handle. 7 1/2 x 5 x 31,
2.6kg |
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| 591 |
NOS Plumb Super Scout axe with label. 6 x 4 1/1 x 27",
1.3kg |
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| 590 |
Collins Australian pattern 13" broad axe, little used
with good hickory handle. 9 x 13 x 30", 4.3kg |
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| 589 |
Elwell topping/lopping axe pattern 3516 with vintage
hickory handle. 9 x 7 x 33", 2.5kg |
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| 588 |
Scarce Gilpin bearded side axe with hickory handle in
excellent condition. 8 1/2 x 6 x 23", 2.1kg |
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| 585 |
Keesteel 83 racing axe, successfully used by Tasmanian
world champion David Foster. New grind and handle. 7 1/2 x 7 x 30",
2.9kg
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| 584 |
Early Dundee pattern shipwrights axe with custom made
White Cedar handle by Bob Wood. Wm Low punched twice on cheek could be
owner's mark. One of Steve's early purchases that set him
off amassing around 150 ship axes. I told him many times that he
probably was a shipwright in a former life. Pitted. This might be a case
of the handle makes the axe. 10 1/4 x 5 x 31", 2.5kg
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| 583 |
24" long German style morticing axe/push axe in very good
condition. Used to
clean/enlarge mortises in large timbers. 1 5/8" cutting edge.
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| 582 |
R. Sorby coachmakers axe. 8 x 6 x 16", 2kg
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| 581 |
Massive 7 1/4" Ochsenkopf German made racing axe,
obviously meant for the export market with company name stamping 'Ox
Head'. Unused with original American hickory handle. 8 x 7 1/4 x 32",
3.3kg
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| 580 |
Rare Brades Cockatoo 4 1/4 lb rafting axe with spotted
gum handle. Excellent condition. 8 x 4 1/8 x 30 1/2", 2.6kg
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| 579 |
Small 7 1/2" froe by Richard Thomas (early Birmingham
maker). Little used condition. 10 x 15 1/2", 1kg
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| 578 |
Whitehouse & Sons 9 1/2" coopers froe. 11 1/2 x 19",
1.3kg
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| 577 |
Elwell pattern 1131 1 5/8" morticing axe in very
good condition. 11 x 1 5/8 x 24", 1.4kg
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| 576 |
Kelly Perfect 4 1/2 lb user grade with professional
repair. 8 x 5 1/2 x 31", 2.7kg
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| 575 |
Joseph Breck & Sons turf axe with stained hickory handle.
9 x 8 1/2 x 31", 2.4kg
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| 574 |
Unused square 10" Plumb Pennsylvania pattern broad axe
aka 'The Small Square Shouldered Plumb broad axe'. Fitted with a new Red
Dog handle. 8 x 10 x 32", 3,6kg
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| 573 |
NOS Collins shipwrights adze head with paper label and
original paint job. 11" with a 4 3/4 cutting edge.
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| 572 |
Immaculate Kelly Black Raven with spotted gum handle.
7 1/2 x 4 3/4 x 29", 2kg
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| 571 |
Klein Logan & Co Pittsburgh 12" froe with turned handle
(could be from an old table leg). Some mushrooming to top.
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| 570 |
Brades 5 lb side axe with hand carved offset hardwood
handle. Minor burring to poll. 8 3/4 x 7 x 20", 2.5kg
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| 569 |
Most attractive Brades 301 2 1/2 lb coppice axe with
vintage hickory handle. 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 18", 1.4kg
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| 568 |
Kelly Perfect, probably 4 1/2 lb with stripped white
hickory handle. Some dings on poll and owner's marks on the back. 8 x 5
1/2 x 32", 2.5kg
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| 567 | Hurds Razor Blade 10" broad axe. 9 x 10 x 32", 4.2kg - very heavy for a 10" axe! | ||
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| 566 |
Outstanding NOS Plumb Explorer half axe/ Boy Scout axe -
I believe from the 1960s? in just about mint condition. Former owner's
initials on the back. Both labels intact. 6 3/4 x 4 1/4 x 26",
1.6kg
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| 565 |
Small French miner's axe 8 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 16", 1.5kg
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| 564 |
Mathieson 7" broad axe. Head probably was cleaned in
molasses and there is a casting flaw on the off-side but overall in good
condition. 9 x 7 x 29 1/2", 2.7kg
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| 563 |
Very rare Hults Bruk 7" racing axe, banana ground to
preserve the maker's mark. 7 1/2 x 7 x 31", 2.6kg
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| 559 |
Long felling axe marked Underwood. 12 x 3 1/4 x 23",
3.1kg |
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| 558 |
Early Germanic 8" side axe with most unusual large
socket/handle configuration. 6 x 8 x 19", 2.3 kg
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| 557 |
Large 4 1/2 lb coopers adze L.& I.J. White Buffalo 1857
with good hickory handle. 10 x 3 1/2 x 10", 2.4kg |
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| 556 |
Early French Sabotier axe with bulbous fruitwood handle.
8 x 8 1/2 x 20", 2kg
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| 555 |
W.M. Weed No 8 3 1/2 lb broad axe/squaring axe. 8 x
8 x 27", 2.1kg
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| 554 |
Gilpin 6 1/2" broad axe fitted with a stained hardwood
handle. 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 x 24 1/2", 2.5kg
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| 553 |
Gilpin Kent pattern axe with straight hickory handle. 9
1/2 x 6 x 28 1/2", 2.5kg
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| 552 |
W.A. Lyndon Kent pattern half axe. Small stress cracks
below eye on both sides and an age crack to the handle. 7 3/4 x 4 1/2 x
24", 1.5kg
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| 551 |
Probably unused 12" broad axe by BLODGETT TOOL CO.
Manchester, N.H. 1853-1862. Extremely rare to find such an early axe
with a lot of the original paint job intact. 9 1/2 x 12 x 30". 4.2kg
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| 550 |
Early French Doloire marked Potevin. Pitting and
minor surface rust. Comes with an early curved
fruit wood handle. 14" cutting edge, overall length 29", 3.6kg |
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| 549 |
D. Simons ship axe with Tasmanian Blackwood handle. Some
bruising to poll. 11 x 6 x 30", 2.7kg
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| 548 |
Probably unused Zenith Marshall Wells 11" broad axe with
crisp acid etching. 8 1/2 x 11 x 34", 3.9kg
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| 547 |
German Bundaxt - used for roughing out the side of logs
- I include Steve's display card and added a picture illustrating its
use. 11 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 30", 3.3kg
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| 546 |
Scarce genuine 19th century Carinthian long bladed hewing
axe (Beschlagbeil) with age conform markings and decorations. 20"
cutting edge. I rate this one the best in the shed.
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| 545 |
Splitmaster 7 1/2 lb log splitter. One of the more recent
crazy log busters apparently developed by George Hillinger of Los
Angeles, California. Copy of U.S. Patent included. 8 x 4 1/4 x 33 1/2",
4.5kg
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| 544 |
Plumb 4 1/2 lb fitted with a new spotted gum handle. 7 x
5 1/4 x 31 1/2", 2.5kg
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| 543 |
Collins 11 1/2" broad axe, probably unused with most of
the original paint intact. 8 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 32", 3.3kg |
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| 542 |
Jeklo Ruse German/Austrian style 14" broad axe/squaring
axe. Slovenian quality maker (close to Austrian border) since 1840
still produces axes today. Nice hickory handle could be original. 8 x 14
x 21 1/2", 2.3kg
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| 541 |
Canadian 9" LH broad axe by George Conley, Pictou Nova
Scotia ca 1847, fitted with a Krugers handle. 9 x 9 x 31", 3.4kg
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| 540 |
Tuatahi two piece racing axe with late Qld timber man
Cyril Dahl (1944-2018) etching. Very good condition. I found the
original leather sheath marked C.J. Dahl to go with it. 7 x 6 1/4 x 29",
2.8kg
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| 539 | Vulcan / Kelly True Temper rafting axe. 7 1/2 x 4 3/4 x 34 1/2", 2.5kg | ||
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| 538 |
Gilpin broad axe 9 x 7 1/2 x 29", 3.5kg
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| 537 |
J. Jamieson blocking axe fitted with a Tasmanian
Blackwood handle. Pitted. 16 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 27", 2.8kg
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| 536 | Brades 4lb Cockatoo made in England with very good (possibly original) hickory handle, 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 x 32", 2.4kg | ||
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| 535 |
Kelly True Temper Flint Edge Michigan pattern with Trojan
hardwood handle. 8 x 5 x 31 1/2", 2.6kg
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| 534 |
Elwell 10 1/2" froe |
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| 533 |
Hillington 10" froe, had a vinegar bath |
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| 532 |
Lyndon 10" froe |
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| 531 |
Gilpin 9" froe |
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| 530 |
D Barton American coopers adze. Maker's mark partially
obscured. 7 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 9", 1.2kg |
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| 529 |
Little used Plumb 10" broad axe with squared off
shoulders. Lacks wedge. (I'll get a spare from Maree) 8 x 10 x 29",
3.6kg |
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| 528 |
Early European hand adze with decorations. No maker's
stamp. 3 5/8" cutting edge, 10" long, 0.9kg |
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| 527 |
German hatchet, Stolper pattern from the border region
with Denmark - hence the distinctive Scandinavian look. 1200 grams. 7 x
4 1/2 x 15 1/2", 1.6 kg |
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| 526 |
Swiss carpenters side axe/broad axe with keyhole nail & spike puller.
Steve listed it as German but the maker's name is a lot more common in
Switzerland. This type of bearded hand axe probably goes back to the
16th century. The oldest dated example I know of is from 1725. 6 x 5 3/4
x 16 1/2", 1.1kg |
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| 525 |
Sabot axe marked Mathiew. Name and purchase history
suggest this is a Dutch clog makers tool. Beautifully grained handle. 8
x 6 1/4 x 17", 1.8kg |
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| 524 |
French swallow tail froe. I only ever managed to buy one
of these super rare tools and Steve was very upset when he missed out.
It took him years to find this superb example. 14" long, 2 1/2" deep
with a 10" cutting edge and an 18" handle. |
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| 523 |
Scarce mid 19th century Sorby Kent pattern grooving axe.
Stamped on both sides. Fitted with a Tasmanian Blackwood handle. 10 x 6
1/2 x 31 1/2", 3.2kg |
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| 522 |
True Temper Flint edge 12" broad axe in little used
condition with most of the original black finish intact. 8 1/2 x 12 x
33", 4.1kg |
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| 521 |
A & F Parkes & Co, Birmingham. Kent pattern axe
with narrow neck and poll, ca 4lb. Fitted with short Blackwood handle. 8
1/2 x 5 1/4 x 23", 2.1kg |
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| 520 |
Black Prince Welland Vale Canada felling axe ca 4 1/2 lb.
6 3/4 x 5 1/4 x 30", 2.5kg |
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| 519 |
Rare antique German squaring axe (Beschlagbeil) -
an early form of an extra high yet lightweight bearded axe documented
back to the 16th century. The long neck all but disappeared by the 19th
century which probably makes this the oldest tool in Steve's shed. Some
stamping marks, age conform moderate to severe pitting that probably
obliterated additional markings or decorations. (Illustration:
wood engraving The Holy Family at Work ca 1500) 13 1/2 x 7
3/4 x 24". 1.4kg |
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| 518 |
Keesteel 4 1/2 lb with spotted gum handle. 7 x 5 1/2 x
31", 2.4kg |
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| 517 |
Kelly Perfect ca 4 1/2 lb with Ipswich Fire Brigade markings.
Fitted with painted white hickory handle. 7 3/4 x5 x 32", 2.6kg |
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Kelly True Temper Dandenong pattern ca 4 1/2 lb racing axe made in Canada with
painted white
hickory handle. Most unusual 'Racing Axe' stamping. 7 x 5 1/2 x 32",
2.55kg |
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| 515 |
Zenith (Marshall Wells) ship adze head, unused with
label. 5 1/8" cutting edge, 11 1/2" long |
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| 514 |
Elwell #4441 2 1/2 lb axe head, unused with label for the
Spanish speaking export market. 7 x 3 3/4" |
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| 513 | Collins ship adze head, unused with paper label. 11 x 4 1/8" | ||
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| 512 |
L & I J White shipwrights axe, little used with good
stamping. Previous owner's marks both sides. 10 3/4 x 6 1/4 x 25", 2.5kg
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| 511 |
Wards Kent pattern half axe with short vintage hickory
handle (Steve listed it as original). 9 x 5 x 22", 2kg
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| 510 |
Yet another shorter version of Clarks' Patent AG Axe
(Tordon axe) 8 1/2 x 1 5/8 x 16 1/2"
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| 509 | Wm Greaves & Sons left hand coppers broad axe with polished hickory handle. Little used. 8 x 11 x 16" | ||
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| 508 |
North American rough cast racing axe. According to
Steve's records one of only 200 made by Charlie Bishop (USA). No other
information provided except for Steve's price tag. 8 x 7 1/2 x 30
3.6kg
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| 507 |
Embossed Plumb Autograf manufactured in St Louis MO
1920-1941 in a most unusual Jersey pattern. According to Steve's notes
the only one he's come across. Fitted with a nicely shaped Blackwood
handle. 7 x 4 1/2 x 30", 2.1kg
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| 506 |
Two local lads pointed me in the right direction and back
to Steve's facebook entry: Turns out this is a Tuatahi two piece Hard
Hitter ex David Foster, re-ground with extra weight added to the
pole. 9" (without extension) x 7 x 31", 3.1kg
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| 505 |
W.A. Lyndon Scotch pattern with reshaped hickory handle.
Very good condition. 9 1/4 x 4 3/4 x 27 1/2", 2.1kg
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| 504 |
Scarce Brades 5lb single lugged pattern 296 felling axe
with stained hickory handle. 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 29", 2.8kg
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| 503 |
ADE & Co slaters axe/sax with nicely turned offset wood
handle. 10" cutting edge, 15 1/2 long |
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| 502 |
Chas Thomas Birmingham brick dressing axe 9 x 4 x 10" |
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| 501 |
Early small coopers broad axe by J.L.Brice and dated
1855. According the Steve's records blacksmith Ron Devin did a repair
job on the eye - very hard to spot. 8 x 6 1/2 x 17 1/2", 1.4kg
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