Shingle Axe Head
Description
- Creator
- Various, Photographer
- Media Type
- Image
- Description
- A colour photograph depicting a rusty axe head resting on a map of the world.
- Notes
- An axe is a steel tool used in felling trees and chopping wood. The thick part of the axe is called the head and contains the eye, into which the handle is driven. The blade of the common axe is wedge-shaped and has a curved edge from five to six inches long and in line with the handle. The handle, also called the helve, is from two and one half to three feet long, and is for use with both hands. The shape of the axe varies in different countries, but the common American Pattern is considered the best. A hatchet is a small axe with a short handle to be used in one hand. It is used in shingling and lathing. A braod axe has a chisel-shaped edge and a wide blade. It was formerly used in hewing timber. The shingle axe was used for splitting wooden stakes. Shingle Axe Head Used for splitting wooden shake shingles. Donated: Stan Hunziger, Humphrey, 1975
- Date Of Event
- 1975
- Subject(s)
- Personal Name(s)
- Stan Hunziger
- Collection
- SMB
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 45.2334 Longitude: -79.69964
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- Donor
- Stan Hunziger
- Copyright Statement
- Protected by copyright: Uses other than research or private study require the permission of the rightsholder(s). Responsibility for obtaining permissions and for any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Copyright Holder
- Seguin Township Museum
- Copyright Holder Contact Information
- 3 Museum Rd., Seguin, ON P2A 2W8 Keith Carscadden Phone: 705-732-6490 email: committee@seguinmuseum.org
- Contact
- Humphrey MuseumEmail:ceoseguinlibrary@gmail.com
Website:
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