| Items available for Education Loans from The Davistown | 19-May- |
| Tools |
| Marlin spike | 93011T16 |
| 6" long, 5/8" diameter tapered |
| unsigned |
| It has a hole at the end for threading the rope. |
| SubCategor | Unidentified Tools |
| Unknown tool | 52016T4 |
| 13 3/4" wide, 11 1/2" long, 1 1/4" thick |
| unsigned |
| SubCategor | Watchmakers, Jewelers, and Silversmiths' | Peter Stubs Tools |
| | Tools |
| Hammer head | 31011T7 |
| 2" long, 3/8" wide, 1/4" diameter round head, straight closed claw | bio |
| signed "P S STUBS" "1" |
| SubCategor | Woodworking: Axes and Hatchets |
| Hatchet | 72714T3 |
| 21" long, 4" cutting edge, 6" long head |
| signed with a fleur de lis and an indeterminate touchmark |
| Hewing ax | TAX3500 |
| 6" long with 4 1/4" blade | photo |
| signed with an obscured manufacturer's sign and with a number "3" |
| This 19th century ax is an excellent example of the American designed ax, which was |
| substituted for the lighter in weight English trade axes that the first settlers brought to America. |
| The lighter English axes with their lack of a poll were impractical for cutting the large tracts of |
| forested land in New England. In the late 18th century American blacksmiths' designed new |
| heavier axes that were much more practical to use in cutting and clearing the forests of New |
| England and the eastern United States. This ax is the best example in the museum collection |
| of this new type of ax with its heavier poll, which played such an important role in frontier |
| communities. The transition from the steel blade to the forged iron poll is clearly visible in this |
| Mast ax | 72801T2 |
| 10 3/4" long, 7" wide blade, 28" handle | photo | bio |
| signed "PAYSON" |
| Payson is not listed in DATM (Nelson 1999); there are three different Payson's in the Registry |
| of Maine Toolmakers. This ax has a Portsmouth, NH, area origin and illustrates the Kent |
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