🔎 UNIDENTIFIED What kinda axe head?

[njrelicgairl]

Looking to ID this axe head. It's big and heavy 6 or 7 pounds. I was told that they each state made there Owen. Is that true, or false?

 

[gillious]

It looks like a Jersey pattern head. If you can clean the rust off you may find a maker's mark. I would start with a brass brush to get off all of the loose rust. Then soak it in a solution of 9 parts water to 1 part molasses. It will take a couple weeks but it won't damage the head more. Check it every couple days and clean with the brass brush. That is the process I use for my axes.

 

[traveller777]

Notice ax head #2. Mine has no name on it but looks nearly identical to yours. I found mine in a Civil War Redoubt (earthen fort) in Tennessee. I am 99% sure it is Civil War. Yours is old too.

 

[njrelicgairl]

Notice ax head #2. Mine has no name on it but looks nearly identical to yours. I found mine in a Civil War Redoubt (earthen fort) in Tennessee. I am 99% sure it is Civil War. Yours is old too.


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Yes, yours looks the same.

 

[njrelicgairl]

It looks like a Jersey pattern head. If you can clean the rust off you may find a maker's mark. I would start with a brass brush to get off all of the loose rust. Then soak it in a solution of 9 parts water to 1 part molasses. It will take a couple weeks but it won't damage the head more. Check it every couple days and clean with the brass brush. That is the process I use for my axes.

Was there more or one maker in Nj?

 

[traveller777]

Yes, yours looks the same.

I dug mine about 12" deep just outside a Redoubt on the Tennessee River. Along with several other relics.

 

[njrelicgairl]

Yes, yours looks the same.

Do to some research I did, the people that lived at this old home site ,where I found it at,They had two sons that served in the civil war. Both union officers. I know that has nothing to do with them serving. But it date around that time you say.

 

[traveller777]

Do to some research I did, the people that lived at this old home site ,where I found it at,They had two sons that served in the civil war. Both union officers. I know that has nothing to do with them serving. But it date around that time you say.

I am sure mine dates to that period based on location and depth of dig. Now it is possible it was dropped there before or after the war, but I doubt it. It was likely left in the mud when troops were in a hurry to leave. The Redoubt traded hands many times during the war. Nice find you got there. I have hot waxed mine since that picture was taken. I can post a picture of it waxed if you want to see.

 

[njrelicgairl]

I dug mine about 12" deep just outside a Redoubt on the Tennessee River. Along with several other relics.

This was found lying on top of the ground. I must have walked by this many times. Can't believe I listed this. My detector must have thought it as iron junk. I'm not surprised that yours was down 12". I have found horse shoes that deep, and some pieces of iron junk that deep,like this old iron kettle I found two years ago. Was in bad shape and not worth saving. But I'm shore you found your shear of iron to.

 

[traveller777]

This was found lying on top of the ground. I must have walked by this many times. Can't believe I listed this. My detector must have thought it as iron junk. I'm not surprised that yours was down 12". I have found horse shoes that deep, and some pieces of iron junk that deep,like this old iron kettle I found two years ago. Was in bad shape and not worth saving. But I'm shore you found your shear of iron to.

I dug this Dutch Oven 2 feet deep in a trash pit or latrine of the 5th Ohio camp here in Tennessee. I'm restoring it and will be done with restoration in a week or so.

I did not dig a lot of iron for a while. I wish I had dug everything now.

 

[njrelicgairl]

I am sure mine dates to that period based on location and depth of dig. Now it is possible it was dropped there before or after the war, but I doubt it. It was likely left in the mud when troops were in a hurry to leave. The Redoubt traded hands many times during the war. Nice find you got there. I have hot waxed mine since that picture was taken. I can post a picture of it waxed if you want to see.

Yes please. I clean what rust I could get of with a wire brush an applied this rust extend rust Neutralized. By Loctite. I haven't experimented with wax. Is there a video on you tube about how that works?

 

[njrelicgairl]

I dug this Dutch Oven 2 feet deep in a trash pit or latrine of the 5th Ohio camp here in Tennessee. I'm restoring it and will be done with restoration in a week or so.

I did not dig a lot of iron for a while. I wish I had dug everything now.

I don't like to dig iron either, but I get some of those signals that sound good . And it draws me in. To see what it might be. I do it to just in case I find a cache or something.

 

[njrelicgairl]

I dug this Dutch Oven 2 feet deep in a trash pit or latrine of the 5th Ohio camp here in Tennessee. I'm restoring it and will be done with restoration in a week or so.

I did not dig a lot of iron for a while. I wish I had dug everything now.

Your Dutch oven project is coming along nice. Keep up the good work.

 

[traveller777]

Yes please. I clean what rust I could get of with a wire brush an applied this rust extend rust Neutralized. By Loctite. I haven't experimented with wax. Is there a video on you tube about how that works?

Yes, several videos. It can be dangerous if you do not control the temperature on wax. With a little common sense and a good thermometer no problem. I think I paid 6 bucks for my thermometer at Walmart.

Here is video on hot wax. There are several out there. I also do electrolysis on most things before hot waxing. Some you cannot do electrolysis on. If you cannot open link just search hot wax iron relics. I think aquachigger one is pretty good.

 

[traveller777]

Your Dutch oven project is coming along nice. Keep up the good work.

Thanks, my friend

 

[gillious]

Was there more or one maker in Nj?

Lots of companies made axes in that pattern. It is the name of the pattern.

 

[traveller777]

Lots of companies made axes in that pattern.

Yepper. Thanks as always for your good input, gillious.

 

[njrelicgairl]

Lots of companies made axes in that pattern. It is the name of the pattern.

Ok

 

[njrelicgairl]

Lots of companies made axes in that pattern. It is the name of the pattern.

Thanks, my friend

Your welcome.

 

[njrelicgairl]

Yes, several videos. It can be dangerous if you do not control the temperature on wax. With a little common sense and a good thermometer no problem. I think I paid 6 bucks for my thermometer at Walmart.

Here is video on hot wax. There are several out there. I also do electrolysis on most things before hot waxing. Some you cannot do electrolysis on. If you cannot open link just search hot wax iron relics. I think aquachigger one is pretty good.

Thank you