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Please
note that the axes listed here have already found new owners
*listed prices in Australian dollar are averaged between lowest
and highest if multiple bids were received. If only one bid was received
the listed price equals the actual sales price.
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Average
offers
received
2021
A$
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100 |
Early German coopers stave axe with maker's and owner's
initials. Attractive tool, professionally re-steeled and fitted with a Tasmanian
blackwood handle by Steve. One of Steve's favourite feature display axes. 9 x 10 x
18", 1.9 kg
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260 |
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99 |
Massive 14" Hurds razor blade broadaxe in very good
condition. 10 x 14 x 29" 3.9kg |
320 |
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98 |
Plumb Au-to-graf double bitted axe in little used
condition with full 35" Kruger handle. 10 x 5 x 35"
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350 |
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97 |
Kelly "Flint Edge Best Axe Made" manufactured to the
Yankee pattern 1930-1949 by American Fork & Hoe Co. Fitted with re-used hickory handle. 7 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 33 1/2" 2.4kg
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200 |
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96 |
4.5lb Canadian Kelly with Kruger hardwood handle. 8 x 6 x
31" 2.8kg
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240 |
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95 |
Zenith 3lb felling axe with very good embossed /
acid etched Marshall Wells stamp.7 x 4 1/2 x 29", 2kg
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280 |
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94 |
Danish Steel Industries (DSI) 4 1/2 lb axe fitted with
new spotted gum handle. 7 x 6 x 30", 2.6kg
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175 |
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93 |
Brades 3 lb shipwrights adze - little used, also
marked T.A.1900 with a hickory handle that seems to have been stripped.
5" cutting edge. 13" x 27", 2.1kg
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80 |
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92 |
W Gilpin large 4 1/4 lb shipwrights adze No 3 with
old handle. 13 1/2 x 4 3/4 x 29" 2.4 kg
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80 |
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91 |
Collins & Co Hartford - very little used lipped 3lb
shipwright's adze with attractive handle. 11 x 5 x 27" 1.8kg
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120 |
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90 |
Brades 1565 4lb felling axe with refitted hickory handle.
7 x 5 1/2 x 29" 2.2kg
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100 |
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89 |
Walters Charcoal Temper made in Canada with blackened
hickory handle. 7 x 5 1/2 x 28", 2.6kg
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180 |
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88 |
Mann Edge Tools Indian Chief fireman's half axe - unused
with partial paper label. 9x 3 1/2 x 24" 1.8kg
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275 |
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87 |
Walters & Sons Hull, Quebec, Canada 12" l/h broad axe 8 x 12
x 30" fitted with Kruger hardwood felling axe handle
9 1/2lb / 4.2 kg
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200 |
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86 |
Osborne 1 Racer in very good condition. Must have had
some sort of a grip attached to the end of the handle. 8 x 8 x
29", 2,8kg |
400 |
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85 |
W Beatty & Sons Canadian pattern 11" broad axe 9 x
11 x 30" 9lbs/ 4.1kg new hardwood handle.
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200 |
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84 |
Jack O'Toole 4.5lb felling axe. Please note that
the engraving has nothing to do with
the Jack O'Toole family and their racing axes. Former owner might have
poked fun at his own wood chopping skills? You can still
see part of the original maker stamp on the cheek. 7 x 5 1/2 x
29" 2.6kg
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70 |
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83 |
Impressive German 2.5kg Bundaxt - a carpenter's axe for framing and
general work. Bundaxes came in two different forms, Bart
or Schmal - bearded or narrow. This one obviously is a Schmalaxt.
Two maker/trademark stamps front and back 10 x 4 x 27 1/2", 2.8 kg |
150 |
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82 |
Plumb hatchet (National Axe pattern), little used
with original hickory pre-Permabond handle. 6 x 4 1/4 x 16" 1kg
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120 |
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81 |
Stiletto broad hatchet, close to new. According to the
records it even had the paper label on the handle; sadly it made a meal
for the cockroaches. Owner's mark on handle, otherwise fine. 6 x 4 1/2 x
16" 1.2kg
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140 |
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80 |
Kelly claw hatchet with hickory handle. 6 1/2 x 4 x 13
1/2" 0.8kg
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100 |
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79 |
Americanax AARTCO side hatchet with hickory handle.
Good condition with crisp stamping. 6 1/2 x 4 3/4 x 14 1/2"1.4kg
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70 |
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78 |
W Gilpin Edge Mills hatchet/tomahawk 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 14
1/2" with old hickory handle
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40 |
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77 |
Glorious little William Gilpin patn 325 shipwrights pin
pole adze with typical hickory shipwrights handle. Condition:
magic....Steve's words, he obviously liked this one a lot. 10 x 4 14",
handle 27". 2 1/4 lb head, 1.5kg overall weight.
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120 |
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76 |
I Sorby No 2 shipwrights adze 11 x 3 3/4 x 25", 1.7kg
Wire brush markings but overall in good condition with what looks like
an old custom made handle.
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120 |
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75 |
Elwell 12" broad axe 9 x 12 x 30" 8lb/ 3.6 kg.
Owner's mark JSW, according to Steve's records they were bridge builders for the
now defunct Morton Shire Council. Mark on handle from old sticker.
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250 |
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74 |
Collins & Co 4 lb unused felling
axe with almost complete original label and 36"hickory handle.
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300 |
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73 |
Gilpin 6lb felling axe fitted with Tasmanian blackwood
handle. 9 x 5 1/2 x 18 1/2". 3.1kg
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150 |
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72 |
Kelly 2 kg made in Australia
- unused, with original price sticker and label on American hickory
handle. 7 1/2 x 6 x 32" 2.9 kg
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300 |
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71 |
A B Riken 8 x 12" Swedish broad axe. Steve's note: "it
may appear worn out but the opposite is the case, it had never seen a
handle and still has the original japanning in the eye". Steve
obviously fitted a new handle. 2.9 kg |
270 |
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70 |
Stiletto side hatchet 6 1/2 x 5 x 14" fitted with new
hardwood handle. Very good condition, good stamp but shows signs of
'cleaning' by an alchemist of the vinegar/molasses/electrolysis variety.
I found a good buffing with compound and a hard stitched cloth buffer
is a good way to mask the 'sandblast" look. Time permitted I might give
it a go. 1.4kg
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80 |
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69 |
Douglas Axe Mfg Co - W Hunt & Co broad axe 9 1/2 x 10"
fitted with Kruger's hardwood handle. The thick blade makes this a
surprisingly heavy 4kg axe
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200 |
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68 |
Plumb - lipped shipwrights adze virtually unused. 10 1/2
x 4 1/2 x 27" with hickory handle. 1.5kg
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150 |
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67 |
6 lb Jackson racing axe. I know very little about modern
axes and we couldn't find the index card to go with it. Steve left
a label that reads:
only 20 made. $ 800 8 x 7 1/4 x 30 3.6 kg
Darryll Littlejohn kindly
shed some light on the subject: Made in Smithton Tasmania by Ray
Jackson. Someone challenged him that he could not build an axe. He
finished 7 ready to use and the rest were unfinished (not heat treated) |
600 |
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66 |
Mathieson No 2 Scotch pattern shipwrights adze with
hickory handle. 10 1/4 x 3 1/2 x 25" 1.5kg
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200 |
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65 |
Gränsfors Bruk - Swedish broad axe (knife grind) 8 x 7
3/4 x 19", purchased in 2002, fitted with original hickory handle. 1.6kg |
250 |
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64 |
D R Barton side axe with a beautiful hand made Bob Wood red cedar
handle. Some chips and cracks on poll. 8 x 7 x 22" 1.6kg
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200 |
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63 |
Kelly Axe & Tool Co 10" broad axe manufactured
between 1904 and 1930, fitted with short bent hickory handle. 8 x 10 x
25", 3kg
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275 |
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62 |
N Z R ( New Zealand Railway) axe 4.5lb with prominent
inventory number 790 on back. 7 3/4 x 5 3/4 x 30", 2.6kg
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125 |
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61 |
D Sharps Gold Medal American axe 8 x 5 1/2 x 30" 2.7 kg
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120 |
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60 |
EET&Co No 1 hatchet - Eagle Edge Tool Co 379 (Eagle stamp high
on poll, hardly visible) rubs and scratches. fitted with a new Red Dog
handle. 5 x 3 1/4 x 14" 1kg
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40 |
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59 |
Keen Kutter flooring hatchet with original hickory handle
6 x 4 x 14" 1kg
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120 |
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58 |
Brades 1560 "Fame" 3 1/2 lbs axe with hardwood handle. 6
1/2 x 5 x 27", 2.3 kg
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220 |
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50 |
Marples & Sons 4 lbs ship axe 11 1/2 x 4 3/4" 1.6kg |
170 |
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49 |
Henry Carter small 3 1/2 lbs ship axe head 10 x 4
1/6" 1.6kg
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125 |
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48 |
6 1/4 lbs ship axe head, maker not clear.... sure
somebody out there is familiar with the stamp 11 1/2 x 6 1/4",
2.5kg |
80 |
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47 |
Early long (and thin) Sheffield made 4 1/4 lbs blocking
axe / ship axe head 13 1/2 x 5 1/2" heavy pitting. My best guess
for the maker's stamp is W. Butcher (several listed in the Sheffield
Edge Tool Directory) 1.8 kg
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120 |
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46 |
WM Beatty & Son, Chester ship axe head 11 3/4 x 5 3/4"
1.7kg |
100 |
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45 |
R. Sorby 4 lbs coachmakers axe head, 8 x 6 1/2", 1.9kg
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225 |
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44 |
Very rare Brades Co 6 lbs shipwrights axe head Newcastle
pattern 14 x 4 1/2", 2.7 kg
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300 |
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43 |
B Smith large ship axe head 11x7", 2.3kg
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120 |
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42 |
Fayette R Plumb ship axe head 10 1/2x 6", 2.4kg
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120 |
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41 |
Elwell with 1942 DD arrow marking felling axe head 5 lbs
9x5 1/2", 2.6kg
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100 |
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40 |
James Howarth Kent type 3 1/2 lbs axe head 9 x 5", 1.7kg
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100 |
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39 |
Marathon felling axe head 4 1/2lbs 7 1/4x6", 2.1 kg |
40 |
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38 |
Gilpin 2 1/2 lbs side axe/ hatchet head 7x5", 1kg
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50 |
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37 |
Gilpin 4 lbs Staffordshire pattern miners axe head, 9"x5
1/4", 1.9kg
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100 |
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36 |
Brades 3lbs side hatchet head with DD arrow marking, 7
1/2x6", moderate pitting, 1.4kg
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50 |
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35 |
Collins 4 1/2 lbs ship axe head 10 3/4 x 6 1/2", 2.2 kg
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100 |
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34 |
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Gray little used 5 lbs shipwrights axe head 11 1/2x6", 2.3kg
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120 |
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33 |
German 2 1/2 lbs bearded stave axe. This is a common European designed
lightweight broad axe 9x9", 1.2kg
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100 |
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32 |
D. Sharp 5 1/2 lbs ship axe head 11 1/2 x 7 1/2", moderate pitting 2.6kg
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100 |
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31 |
French 3 1/2 lbs sabotier (clog maker's) axe head with a somewhat
rough weld repair or maybe just a bad job by the maker. 7 1/4 x 7
1/4", 1.7 kg
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150 |
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30 |
Kelly Perfect 5 lbs axe head 8 x 5 1/2", 2.2kg
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50 |
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29 |
Large Elwell 7 1/4 lbs axe head 9 x 6 1/4", 3.3 kg, moderate pitting
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65 |
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28 |
Elwell 6 lbs marked 1943 axe head with DD arrow marking, mild pitting 8
1/2x 5 1/2 ", 2.6kg
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50 |
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27 |
Early Germanic or Romanic bearded axe head with simple decorations 12x 7
3/4" 2kg, pitted
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200 |
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26 |
Massive 6 1/2 lbs blocking/squaring axe head made by blacksmith Ron
Devin "The Axe Doctor" (and honorary father Christmas) to Steve's
design. Sadly, Ron only survived Steve by 6 months. They were an often
photographed pair at my market stall in Fernvale where Steve showed up
for breakfast every Sunday without fail. 15 3/4" x 5", 3kg
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200 |
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25 |
Sorby 048 5 3/4 lbs heavy felling axe head 10 1/2x4" 2.7 kg
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180 |
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24 |
Gilpin Yorkshire pattern 3 lbs axe head. Wire-brush marks 9 1/2 x 3
3/4", 1.4kg
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150 |
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23 |
Collins ship axe head 5 lbs 11 1/32 x 6 3/4", 2.3 kg
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150 |
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22 |
Whitehouse 5 lbs coachmakers axe head 9 1/2 x 6 1/2"
2.2kg
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275 |
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I Sorby 4 lbs cooper's broad axe head in little used condition 8 x 10",
1.8kg
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150 |
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German felling axe head DIN 6113-2000
with 9" with 6" cutting edge , 1.8kg |
40 |
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Mathieson
coachmakers axe head 9 1/4" with 7 1/2 edge, small hairline crack to
poll or maybe just a forging line to go with the "dents" all of which
one would not expect to see in a Mathieson quality tool. 2,1kg
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300 |
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Germanic
broadaxe head marked 1778, 8 1/2 x 12 1/2",2.3kg. This is probably a
one-off. I suspect it was stamped and decorated for religious/ceremonial
purposes. Hot stamp IHS ( (symbol for the name Jesus) over Roman VIII
(for 1778) and topped with a cross. I'm aware that there are fake age
marked axes on the market but I believe this is not one of them. I
actually sold this tool years ago to a third party and no surprise, it
eventually found its way into Steve's shed. |
500 |
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Gilpin No 2
ship / shipwrights axe head, minor pitting marks, 13 x6", 2.2kg
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100 |
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Gilpin
Lincolnshire pattern side axe head, 5lbs 11 1/2x6" 2.2kgs, crisp
markings
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180 |
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Early French
clog makers (sabotier) side axe head 8" with 10" cutting edge, 1.6kg
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200 |
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Gilpin 1 1/2"
mortising axe head Pat No 47, 11 1/2" long, 2kg, moderate pitting marks
(I'm sure Steve didn't clean this head - polished steel and pitting
marks just don't mix) |
70 |
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Ward large
coachmakers side axe head, minor pitting marks, 9 1/2" x 8 1/2", 3kg |
350 |
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Kelly True
Temper Red Warrior axe with attractive new handle 5" cutting edge 2.2kg.
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160 |
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L&I.J. White
American ship axe head, little used, 10 1/4 x 6", 2.1kg
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220 |
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Massive
wheeler's broad axe, London pattern, by Sorby. 13 x 9" with custom made
Bob Wood handle. 5kg. A most impressive tool, one of Steve's
favourites. |
700 |
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Gilpin 3lb
small coachmakers axe head 8 x 6" 1.3kg
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250 |
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Edwards
poll-less long felling axe head 10" x 3 3/4" 2kg
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150 |
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Gilpin
Yorkshire pattern hedging axe head 10" x 5", 1.8 kg pitting marks |
70 |
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Collins pre 1875 ship axe head 11" x 6 1/2" 2.2kg |
150 |
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Isaac Greaves heavy pitching axe head 12x3" 2.8kg |
150 |
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D Sharp axe with refinished handle. 9 x 4 1/2" 2.8kg
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50 |
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Germanic broad axe head, re-steeled at some stage with
early markings 8 1/2 x 13 3/4" 2.6kg |
120 |
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Mathieson Scotch pattern axe with what looks like
re-fitted old handle. 8 x 4 1/4" 1.6kg |
150 |
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German made Spanish axe head in excellent unused condition. 8 x 6"
1.5kg |
50 |
