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Can anyone help me date this axe head. There area no makers marks that I can find.

Thanks in advance for advice/ information.

Looks like a blacksmith forged head probably made in the late 1800's, just a guess however Terry

This one has some of the design elements

I do not have any knowledge about that axe, but I do have an opinion. I would guess that it was left in a fire, or in a burning building, at some point and lost its temper there. In my experience, an axe will break before bending like that one unless it is heated and not tempered.

Its a 'Kentucky' style head and I don't think it was burned. I could be wrong.
If you re-handle it be careful, the forge fold is splitting.

I would agree it's a Kentucky or Baltimore/Kentucky. It was pretty common to work the poll and sides of the head in mild steel and then hand forge the hardened "bit" between the two pieces that make the sides of the eye. I've got a number of hatchets and small axes that were beat on and disfigured like that. I've had some beautiful name axes in 3 1/2- to 5 pounds that were used as wedges and ruined. I found this little 2 1/4 pound Plumb. On a whim I got a flap disc for my angle grinder and polished it, I ground 8 ounces out of it, then made a handle out of a piece of White Ash firewood. I didn't like it polished so I browned it. There was plenty of hardened bit left to get an arm shaving razor edge on it. Then I made a throwing ax out of it. There are a bunch of pics in the Ax and Hatchet thread, Joe.

Treejakal wrote:This one has some of the design elements

That looks like a hewing ax for squaring logs. I was told that one reason they had the triangle bib facing up and down, was that hewing axes were only sharpened on one side. So, they are predominately right handed. With a bib facing up and down, the head could be flipped over on the handle, and be used left handed.