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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: mullet on March 28, 2010, 08:37:44 pm

Title: flea market find
Post by: mullet on March 28, 2010, 08:37:44 pm

 I really like hatchets and tomahawks. I think if given a choice in a survival situation I'd rather have one than a knife. Anyway, I came across this beauty at the Flea Market this morning.

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Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: cowboy on March 28, 2010, 08:39:21 pm

I need one of those for the canoe. Mechete's are a favorite of mine..

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: Pennhawk on March 28, 2010, 08:45:32 pm

Nice find, looks like it was hardly used. I can't read the writing on it was it made in the US?

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: Jesse on March 28, 2010, 09:02:21 pm

Those Marbles are nice. I have one and I like it a lot. I believe they are made in MI.

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: mullet on March 28, 2010, 09:33:24 pm

 Jesse's right, MI.

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: El Destructo on March 28, 2010, 09:41:40 pm

Gladstone Michigan is where all of the Good Quality Marbles Knives were made...Webster Marbles was known as the Inventor of the Modern Hunting Knife...and His Hatchets made Him Famous.....

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: RG on March 28, 2010, 09:45:08 pm

Good find Eddie

Ron

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: Mechslasher on March 28, 2010, 09:53:30 pm

lucky rascal.  as lucky as you are, i'm guessing you only paid $10 for it.

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: mullet on March 28, 2010, 09:55:53 pm

  Six, ;) ;D

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: aero86 on March 29, 2010, 12:40:16 am

Wow! I bought a hatchet just like that this weekend!  But not for that price

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: Josh on March 29, 2010, 12:44:44 am

that's a beautiful hatchet Eddie... I'll give ya 7 fer it...   ::)   ;D

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: DanaM on March 29, 2010, 06:59:34 am

Ya Marble Arms is in Gladstone, MI 40 miles from me, find an old one of them eddie for $6 and you have something.
Thats a modern version, their not bad but the steel isn't the greatest at least not like the their originals. All old Marbles
stuff is very collectable, the knives, axes, sights, match cases and pin-on compasses.

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: huntertrapper on March 29, 2010, 09:44:32 am

thatd be great in my pack when in the woods. and you said youd rather have it than a knife, i once read a woodsmen should be able to wittle with a hand axe.  :D

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: jamie on March 29, 2010, 10:49:53 am

i agree on the axe ed. i have a small gerber that goes everywhere with me. i may forget my knife but not the axe.

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: RidgeRunner on March 30, 2010, 10:05:21 am

The Marble's knife company is going through a Bankruptcy.

In the March 2010 Smokey Mountain Knife works there are single bit #5 and #9 GOLD edition axes.
The price is not bad IF they are made of good steel????  I wonder if they are just for looks...
They both come with a presentation box.

David 

Title: Re: flea market find
Post by: DanaM on March 30, 2010, 11:06:05 am

I haven't seen anything in the local paper about a bankruptcy ??? The steel is from China not sure on the gold edition ones but I'm guessin its all the same :(