Please assist with identity and age of these axes.

[Noel Greeff]

The axes featured in the photos below have recently arrived from an auction in the USA.IMG_6587.jpgIMG_6588.jpgIMG_6589.jpgIMG_6590.jpgIMG_6591.jpgIMG_6592.jpgIMG_6593.jpgIMG_6594.jpg

[Jim Koepke]

The first one looks like an early maul for splitting logs.

The second looks like what is called a bill hook or a brush axe. It found use for trimming tree branches and clearing brush. It was also used as is or modified for a military weapon.

The last two look to be hewing axes due to their offset. The first of the pair looks like it may have seen a lot of use. The edge is usually longer. It looks to have been reduced over time by sharpening.

You might try Google with > axe style identification < or variations to bring up more information. Also put in words like > antique, metal detecting and others for variations.

jtk

[Tom M King]

The only one I recognize, having seen plenty before, is the third one. https://www.tigersupplies.com/Produc...e__COU212.aspx

Around here everyone calls them a "bush axe" but the offset style is probably from the 1950's and some later.

The only version I've seen in decades is the better balanced and easier to use "bank blade" that everyone around here still calls a "bush axe".

https://www.zoro.com/council-tool-di...waAoX-EALw_wcB

The others are probably locally made by blacksmiths with the ones with offset blades for some hewing function, and the wedge for splitting.

[Jim Koepke]

The only one I recognize, having seen plenty before, is the third one.

They could be cousins:

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Except for the hang hole and the blade pinned to the handle socket those look a lot a like.

jtk

[Noel Greeff]

Thank you Jim.
That is a helpful reply.
noel

[Noel Greeff]

Thank you Tom.
Noel

[Tom M King]

Around here, bush axes were mainly used for cutting brush and vines on ditch banks that you couldn't get to or reach with a swing blade. That was before the time of weedeaters and clearing saws.