While it may not apply here most larger hardware companies didn't make their own tools but had them made by an actual tool company who stamped or branded their names on the pieces...Think ACE Hardware! Who made them is almost impossible to find out unless you had found some original shipping invoices...Surprisingly, lots of axe makers didn't make double bit axes and those that did usually shipped them to dealers in the Pacific Northwest or to the Maine/Vermont regions where logging actually was a legacy of the lumberjacks..
Can you find any other stamping(s) on the blade other then the Weber one...You could trace it back via that in the trademark books...Then again, he could have had a blacksmith actually forging them in the back of his business--who would have put his stamp on the blade usually just by the eye...If he had a thriving business he could have farmed out the axe making to all the smiths in surrounding communities.
This may help:
http://www.yesteryearstools.com/Yesteryears Tools/Home.html
Sorry, I couldn't have been of more help but the above will answer E-mail questions--eventually!
Can you find any other stamping(s) on the blade other then the Weber one...You could trace it back via that in the trademark books...Then again, he could have had a blacksmith actually forging them in the back of his business--who would have put his stamp on the blade usually just by the eye...If he had a thriving business he could have farmed out the axe making to all the smiths in surrounding communities.
This may help:
http://www.yesteryearstools.com/Yesteryears Tools/Home.html
Sorry, I couldn't have been of more help but the above will answer E-mail questions--eventually!
