Miniature carpenters axe?

[somehiker]

Miniature carpenter's axe?

A friend found this item while digging in his own backyard.I suspect it was part of a sculpture since it appears to be a bit small to be part of a child's tool set.It has an oblong hole for the handle as well.Nothing else has turned up.
Regards:Somehiker

 

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[somehiker]

Re: Miniature carpenter's axe?

Other side:

 

[mojjax]

Re: Miniature carpenter's axe?

It might be a "salesman's sample" of a shingling hatchet

 

[La Beep]

Re: Miniature carpenter's axe?

Looks like a roofing hatchet.
Hammer
Nail puller
Hatchet for cutting / sizing wood shingles
also used to trim edges

 

[dkw]

Re: Miniature carpenter's axe?

Looks like a roofing hatchet.
Hammer
Nail puller
Hatchet for cutting / sizing wood shingles
also used to trim edges

It's 2 1/2 inches long.

I agree. Maybe a sample or a pre-lawyer toy.

 

[Montana Jim]

Re: Miniature carpenter's axe?

Hmmmmm..... looks familiar!

I have one made of lead, 1 1/2 inches, lost between the late 1860s and probebly no later than 1910, found in Montana.

Mine has the words "WASHINGTON HATCHET" on it.

It also has a small hole where a handle might have gone...

Souvenier? Sample? Toy?

 

[somehiker]

Re: Miniature carpenter's axe?

Thanks Montana:
Doubt that what he has is any different than yours,with the exception that the lettering has eroded away.I will have to search the name and see if I can find out more to tell him.
Regards:SH.

 

[somehiker]

Re: Miniature carpenter's axe?

A few things out there.It apparently is the head of a souvenir " Washington Hatchet" as used by George to taunt them tree huggers.And here I was thinking that we could prove that lepricans lived there.
Regards:SH.

 

[warsawdaddy]

Re: Miniature carpenter's axe?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Vintage-Miniatu...ryZ66518QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Re: Miniature carpenter's axe?

You can have my toy hammer to go with it. lol. http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,141302.0.html

 

[trikikiwi]

Re: Miniature carpenter's axe?

I thought I had seen the hatchet before.

Check out the third pic down in this recent thread in Todays Finds
http://forum.treasurenet.com/index.php/topic,178573.0.html

I presume that's the 'full size' model

Mike