Tune the edge and handle to your liking and that will compete in performance with any similar weight head (like a gransfors small forest axe or a. The kelly axe companies produced firemen’s axes for at least 60 years, and throughout that period, the stamping, labels, and form of those axes changed with enough of a. This axe, with its huge imprint on the axe head of the raven, holds some mystique in the axe world today.
KELLY BLACK RAVEN Axe Head. 3 1/2 pounds. 4 3/4 x 7 inches. Extra fine
I recently found and referbed a few axe heads and i was having trouble dating them.
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Any info on what they are and how old they are would be appreciated as. All kelly axes will have a stamp on them that says “kelly axe & tool co.” along with the location of the company (newark, nj; Greatest value is definitely as a useful tool. If so that feature did not come out until around 1960, so you can certainly narrow it.
It has a 3 stamp on the front as well as a embossed kelly black raven stamp. Does it have ridges in the eye of the axe that run parallel with the handle to help grip the handle?
