Smallest axe head ever???

[Snowjonson]

I was walking my dog along a trail and looked down and saw this lying on the ground. It looks like a tiny axe or hatchet head but I can't believe how small it is!

Anyone have any idea what it is?
It weighs 39.6 grams

Quarter for size reference

 

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[Worm-Slicer]

Wow, I love that! That's super-cool and never seen another one.

 

[ARC]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/190379508/vintage-toy-tools-childs-hammer-hatchet

 

[firemac]

Lilliputian perhaps?

 

[trapperart]

I think AARC nailed it

 

[against the wind]

Yep, child's toy axe
Congrats

 

[A2coins]

Old crude dentist tool LOL

 

[Snowjonson]

https://www.etsy.com/listing/190379508/vintage-toy-tools-childs-hammer-hatchet

Yeah that looks like what it is! For some reason I thought it would be older than 50's, but still cool!

 

[texjim]

Pretty neat looking.

 

[eyemustdigtreasure]

On pg 18 of the book "A Museum of Early American Tools" by Eric Sloane

the author illustrates and measures "a tiny Carpenter's Hewing Hatchet" at 3.25 inches long, total,
and it has a flat side to the head - but, yours isn't flat on one side. Dinky, yes, but then...I found it!
On page 21, the book has a chapter on hatchets, saying (yours) to be "The Shingling Hatchet",
with a SEVEN INCH-long head, but looks like yours, with the nail-puller,
AND the edge of YOUR hatchet (from Maine area) is flat/level,
where the Shingling Hatchet from New Jersey area,
has a slight belly to the edge.

a very nice find - Colonial stuff is cool!

 

[port ewen ace]

for scalping small minded people?

 

[austin]

Very impressive because I've never seen one real or posted...