BLACK CAT AXE NY USA

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Mister Moon

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Hi guys,

I found this axe some days ago and i search some information about it... the maker etc etc, the quality of the steel and all over best infos.


Thanks for help!

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Something about this axe head just doesn't seem right to me.
I did a bit of googling and could find absolutely zero info.
could find ( besides somebody making Axe design T shirts ) were one old Ebay listing on worthpoint and a few of these heads that had been sold in Malaysia.

Also I could be nitpicking, but the head is stamped " The best forged steel " while the label says " Celebrated cast steel " which is odd to me.
 
I have to say this head doesn't have a very old look to me, and since no information could be turned up on the supposed company or of such a company / business having existed at the address on the label it's making me think this may be a fantasy made for sale in Malaysia.


With that much info to go off of on the axe and label, it should not be hard to turn something up.
 
Square_peg said:
I agree with H&S. I bet this is a modern import.
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And the million dollar question is what exactly the story could be.

The shape / profile of the head screams modern, while the branding and the wording of the brand and markings say turn of the century.

my thought is a modern head marked and branded to seem like an antique.
The problem is it seems to have been done in or for sale in Malaysia, and is a little too elaborate/ well done for a brand that's made up or just extremely obscure.
 
I don't believe 194 West Street is there anymore, looks to have been razed for a roadway. The directories for the area don't list a "National Tool Works" ever doing business there, but there was a hardware import/exporter named Markt and Co (and Markt and a few other partners) that serviced Europe, South America, and Asian for a lot of years from that old address.

That brand might've been theirs, I agree that it looks like a new label though.
 
Hickory n steel said:
And the million dollar question is what exactly the story could be.

The shape / profile of the head screams modern, while the branding and the wording of the brand and markings say turn of the century.

my thought is a modern head marked and branded to seem like an antique.
The problem is it seems to have been done in or for sale in Malaysia, and is a little too elaborate/ well done for a brand that's made up or just extremely obscure.
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Well summarized!
 
tltt said:
I don't believe 194 West Street is there anymore, looks to have been razed for a roadway. The directories for the area don't list a "National Tool Works" ever doing business there, but there was a hardware import/exporter named Markt and Co (and Markt and a few other partners) that serviced Europe, South America, and Asian for a lot of years from that old address.

That brand might've been theirs, I agree that it looks like a new label though.
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On the other hand, if I may say so, I do not see the interest for Asia in sending hatchets manufactured at home to the American market knowing that the USA has far more than enough manufactured hatchets. on its territory.
I contacted an American company with the same name as the one engraved on one of the sides and I am waiting for their response.
 
Mister Moon said:
On the other hand, if I may say so, I do not see the interest for Asia in sending hatchets manufactured at home to the American market knowing that the USA has far more than enough manufactured hatchets. on its territory.
I contacted an American company with the same name as the one engraved on one of the sides and I am waiting for their response.
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Markt and Co wouldn't have been importing axes into America, but exporting out of America to Asia. They were active 1899 - 1920s. They were the only business at that that address over the years that had anything to do with hardware.

Anyway, I think this might be a case of someone buying the old trademark, and using an old trademark.
 
tltt said:
Anyway, I think this might be a case of someone buying the old trademark, and using an old trademark.
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That is very possible but it's so odd that nothing turns up about the potential reproduction or originals when we have as much as a brand a company and an address to go off of.
 
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