Scottg's little safety hatchet

[johnsironsanctuary]

Scott,
Don't let that pretty little hatchet out of your sight. You might consider sleeping with it under your pillow.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-HEN-TEETH-PAT-MAY-24-1898-MARPLE-SAFETY-AXE-SER-NO-130-/140685827567?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20c1875def

[rusty]

Must be a full moon....

Hmm..odd..moon cal says no moon tonight...

[Papaw]

Scott's is prettier- not that that matters at all.

[rusty]

>Scott's is prettier- not that that matters at all.

It is also unique. There are at least 130 of those marples, assuming that is a serial number as the selller claims.

(Who puts serial numbers on hatchets? It's more likely inspected by Number 130...)

[kxxr]

It's "Marble's" with a B for those safety axes, isn't it?

[rusty]

>It's "Marble's" with a B for those safety axes, isn't it?

Yea...

But then, handel is usually spelled the other way also...

[kxxr]

Yea, but nobody would mistake that thing for an 18th century composer.
Where is this hatchet of Scott's anyway? I couldn't find that either... or is it rarer than hen's teeth?

[Papaw]

Look here- http://www.papawswrench.com/vboard/index.php?topic=2621.msg15640#msg15640

[johnsironsanctuary]

Here is one with an all wood handle. I wonder if that's older or newer?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-MARBLES-MARBLES-ARMS-NUMBER-6-SAFETY-HATCHET-AXE-GLADSTONE-MICHIGAN-U-S-A-/120840016087?_trksid=p4340.m185&_trkparms=algo%3DSIC.NPJS%26its%3DI%252BC%26itu%3DUA%26otn%3D5%26pmod%3D140685827567%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D5885116141589801188

[kxxr]

The Cutler's Cove website often has a few examples of those and many other items, especially knives and they seem to know what they are talking about. There are a couple of Marble's axes listed in the "Just Reduced" section right now and they have a lot of Marble's knives.
Check 'em out if you're interested. http://cutlerscove.com/

[scottg]

Webster Marbles made these things for 35 years and more. There are a bunch of different models out there.
  Not all are super valuable, except many people think they are, and then ask a price nobody is going to pay.
Mine was only ever a #2, even the day it was made. Even mint original it wasn't the most valuable.
  Its currently about worthless on the collector market. Collectors what nothing but original.

  Practically everything I make is worthless.
   I like it and I'll keep it, especially since I can't sell it.

Along about 30 to 50 years after I am safely dead,  I'll be known as an outsider artist or a folk artist and my stuff will gain in value 100 to 1000 fold overnight.
  But only after I'm good and dead. 
   
Same as Van Gogh and so many others.  Who died in the gutter flat broke and starving,
and then 50 years later on the auction block at Southeby with rich people fighting over it tooth and nail.
  This is the way it works.

Oh yeah Webster Marbles of Glastone Michigan himself, who made this hatchet and the best game calls and peep sights ever made, plus several dozen other really important items of outdoor gear?
Things still being copied today, because they were the best design ever conceived?
yeah he died broke too.
     yours Scott

[Branson]

Some French writer thought that his death would increase the sales of his one work.  His suicide didn't help -- the story of his attempt at glory never mentions his name that I've seen.

[kxxr]

ya, fer sure, your death only guarantees one thing.

[rusty]

>ya, fer sure, your death only guarantees one thing.

Yup, guarantees all your relatives will fight over your stuff - P

[Dustin21]

>ya, fer sure, your death only guarantees one thing.

Yup, guarantees all your relatives will fight over your stuff - P

or you have my case and just leave everything to one person lol