Hi picked up this Hammer Axe

[Bucky902]

Hi picked up this Hammer Axe with name but can not make out the name does anyone recognize it?

[Northwoods]

Possibly in Cryllic or Greek?

[amecks]

There seems to (maybe) an (M) (O) stamped unevenly, followed by (BELL) stamped evenly.  Possibly the BELL is the phone company?  Did they ever use this type of tool?  Perhaps the (M O) are someone's initials.
Al

[Bucky902]

Thank you amecks  i do see the M ? maybe O followed by BELL so i will try a search on Bell 

[Papaw]

Was there a Missouri Bell ?  Mo Bell ?

[p_toad]

There is/was a Missouri Bell at one time; had the individual companies in most of the states.   I did find a Bell System axe head in a generic search of the web and the info i read said it was manufactured by Stanley probably between 1940 and 1960.   The example pictures almost all have a square cutout in the cutting edge and no hammer head and it appears that an axe may have been made, also.  I know it's messy, but you might try filling the low areas with chalk and re-photographing that thing.

[Bucky902]

thank you i did try soap stone but did not work so i will try chalk i did see the Bell ones with the hole in them to but nothing like this one so far 

[Bucky902]

I should ad that it was found in Nova Scotia Canada

[lptools]

Hello, Does it look to be all original? In other words does it lok to be manufactured that way? I'm just guessing, but is that a grind mark in the photo on the hammer head? Regards, Lou

[turnnut]

 I just went to google and put in "vintage axe/hammer used by Bell of Canada"

  3 pictures were shown of axe with hammer heads.

[Northwoods]

I just went to google and put in "vintage axe/hammer used by Bell of Canada"

  3 pictures were shown of axe with hammer heads.

So, there you have it, folks. Another case of a heartless computer's having taken over the jobs of actual human experts.

[lptools]

Did any of those look like the axe posted by Bucky902??????

[chips]

It's a Campbell's axe.  There were other makers of this pattern and for a time was called a "killing axe."

[Bucky902]

Wow Thank You i think you are right is it a Campbell's

[turnnut]

 on the killing axe, they would hit the animal to be slaughtered on the head with the hammer head, which I think they called the "pole".