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14th October 2015, 05:04 PM #1Senior Member
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Lets Play Name that Axe / Hatchet
Hi guys. Y'all seem to know everything between you, so try this one.
An old axe / hatchet head I picked up recently and want to identify. It's marked with an anchor/heart/cross stamped mark, 900(g) and what might be two Russian letters. Also in English the letters WERC and maybe an O after the C.
All I could find by internet search was this http://be-cause-blog.com/tag/axe/ which shows an axe purchased in South West Germany which has a very similar anchor/heart/cross stamp - but no identification.
Here's mine:
sdf axe 001.jpg
Thanks for playing.
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14th October 2015, 07:43 PM #2SENIOR MEMBER
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There is a manufacturing company in the right field. WERCO (slovakian) but I don't know their history
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14th October 2015, 08:53 PM #3
It looks flat on the display side so that makes it a broad axe.
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16th October 2015, 10:57 PM #4GOLD MEMBER
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The Cyrilic letters are probably an ownership mark, one of the letters looks to have been partly made with a centre punch of some sort.
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18th October 2015, 07:25 AM #5Novice
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According to a list on my website Werco is the trademark of the German company Schniewind:
"Werco = Ludwig Schniewind & Co., Wuppertal-Cronenberg"
If you search for "Schniewind Cronenfeld" on ebay you will find a letter from that company showing their trademarks one of which is your anchor/heart/cross stamp.
Wolfgang
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21st October 2015, 08:34 AM #6Senior Member
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Astounding work. Many thanks.
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