Winchester Brand Axe Heads

kilowatt · Aug 12, 2014

A friend of mine showed this Axe Head last week to me after he had put a buffying wheel on his bench grinder. Yes, he took the stone wheel off and just the cloth polishing wheel and lot of "rouge" and it looks alot better than when he bought it off Ebay. Found two more Winchester Axe Heads and bid and got them, more polishing to do when he gets them.

Real nice Axe Heads manufactured by WINCHESTER some years back.

Brian
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eelgrass · Aug 12, 2014

A polished up Winchester axe head is worth about $10.

One in original condition, unpolished sells for up to $250.

Looks nice!

Eel

1911 · Aug 12, 2014

>A polished up Winchester axe head
>is worth about $10.
>
>One in original condition, unpolished sells
>for up to $250.
>
>Looks nice!

>
>Eel

Eel, it is the late night beach side axe gash that is ten bucks. The polished head is closer to twenty. You're confused.

elkun · Aug 13, 2014

who would of thought a polished job would make your head worth less??!!

ZIGGER · Aug 13, 2014

LAST EDITED ON Aug-13-14 AT 08:26PM (MST)[p]....keep your buddy away from any single action colt revolvers......

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1911 · Aug 14, 2014

Eel, do you know if these actually came out of a Winchester factory or did another maker pay for their headstamp?

eelgrass · Aug 14, 2014

>Eel, do you know if these
>actually came out of a
>Winchester factory or did another
>maker pay for their headstamp?
>
>

Well, according to Rick on Pawn Stars, Winchester started making axe heads in 1914. They made about 2300 up until WWI started, then production stopped. They were all hand forged and stamped by Winchester. He said original unmolested examples are getting harder to come by.

Hope this helps.

Eel

ZIGGER · Aug 14, 2014

Lol eel......you made that all up huh??

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buttshot · Aug 17, 2014

Unmolested?????
WTF is wrong with this picture?
Eel doesn't make up a lot of stuff,,,,, but????

hank4elk · Aug 17, 2014

I found one on my place at the old homestead site. It's a little ground down,but otherwise ready for a new handle and sharpening.
I have a collection of artifacts like the axe head, growing at the base of old pinion.

hank4elk · Aug 17, 2014

LAST EDITED ON Aug-17-14 AT 07:20PM (MST)[p]>Unmolested?????
>WTF is wrong with this picture?
>
> Eel doesn't make up a
>lot of stuff,,,,, but????

I took my model old 92' Win,32-20 my uncle left me to some gun guys to see what it was worth.
One guy said,"Well before your uncle "molested " it with the most beautiful metal-refinish/blueing job I've ever seen,it WAS worth"...