TRUE TEMPER timeline

phantomknives said:
got any eye ridges?
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Neither one of them have eye ridges. I suspect that the one on the right fits in to the eye ridge era, though. I'm sure the one on the left is an older stamp, but I'm not sure of the dates that the unbroken line that crosses the T's was used.

I have one other head with a known date, an old Flint Edge double bit that a now deceased friend gave me back in the 80's, it was issued to him when he joined the CCC'S in 1937. It also has the unbroken line. But, I also have a head that dates older than '37 that has a broken line stamp also. I'm wondering if different manufacturers had different stamps?
 
quinton said:
Neither one of them have eye ridges. I suspect that the one on the right fits in to the eye ridge era, though. I'm sure the one on the left is an older stamp, but I'm not sure of the dates that the unbroken line that crosses the T's was used.

I have one other head with a known date, an old Flint Edge double bit that a now deceased friend gave me back in the 80's, it was issued to him when he joined the CCC'S in 1937. It also has the unbroken line. But, I also have a head that dates older than '37 that has a broken line stamp also. I'm wondering if different manufacturers had different stamps?
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I checked the True Temper trademark registrations over the years, and none of them had that unbroken line at the top, except... there was a sorta similar unbroken line in the True Temper trademark registered in 1907 by American Fork & Hoe (for forks, hoes, rakes, and potato hooks). So my guess is that the unbroken line version on the TT axes is the initial version they used after AFH bought Kelly in 1930, and then they modified the trademark (to the broken line) within a few years.

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http://www.wipo.int/branddb/en/showData.jsp?ID=USTM.71024683
 
Steve Tall said:
I checked the True Temper trademark registrations over the years, and none of them had that unbroken line at the top, except... there was a sorta similar unbroken line in the True Temper trademark registered in 1907 by American Fork & Hoe (for forks, hoes, rakes, and potato hooks). So my guess is that the unbroken line version on the TT axes is the initial version they used after AFH bought Kelly in 1930, and then they modified the trademark (to the broken line) within a few years.

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http://www.wipo.int/branddb/en/showData.jsp?ID=USTM.71024683
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Thanks, Steve Tall!
 
Hello,
I am a new poster here. Sorry for resurrecting on old thread, but this is all I could find regarding old True Temper axes. I have a hatchet and would like to find out how old it is. It has the True Temper logo with the continuous line across the top, like the one on the left in the earlier post in this thread. It is 16.5" long, although the handle may not be original.

Photos are here:

https://flic.kr/ps/3ViP1S

Any info you can provide would be helpful.
 
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