Small old axe

[MackDigger]

My only keeper of the day. Any idea how old or what it was used for?

 

[ekeisler]

I would say modern with the full metal. It may have had a wooden or rubber handle on it.

 

[g-olden years]

Cool old hatchet! Dunno anything about its age though.

On some scrub land above ocean last month, as I was hoping to dig old Spanish gold coins under big ole tree, instead I dug an old hatchet head -- nice surprise as I love old tools. About twenty feet away I dug its eroded wood handle which my detector found only because there were a few metal brads in it. My hatchet isn't real old though. When I began this hobby a couple years ago, one of my first eyeball finds was a modern circular saw blade embeded vertically in a tree trunk about at my eye level -- my son & I had some laughs about that one, & yep, I took it home. HAVE FUN! Andi

 

[kuger]

Hatchet,splitting kindling and not very old......clean it up and re use it!!

 

[dfx-kevin]

i agree, take a brushwheel on a grinder, clean it up an reuse it , very cool you should find a maker's mark/logo on it. i found an old stanley that i reused

 

[vpnavy]

Nice find MackDigger. I would clean that puppy up and put it in my MD hunting bag.

 

[history hunter]

looks like an estwing hatchet. clean the bottom and there should be the name there

 

[history hunter]

it use to have a leather ring handle a leather sheath with a pine cone designEstwing Sportsman's Axe with 10 in. Leather Grip Handle-E24A at ...

 

[unclemac]

it use to have a leather ring handle a leather sheath with a pine cone designEstwing Sportsman's Axe with 10 in. Leather Grip Handle-E24A at ...

yep...I was thinking estwing all the way...have one myself and a couple of hammers too.

 

[Mekong Mike]

I remember that from the 60's and 70's.