Collins Axe
Nearly all our talk, though, was about logging, because logging was what loggers talked about. They mixed it into everything. Norman Maclean, Logging and Pimping and "Your Pal, Jim" , 1976 My father gave me my first axe on my 11th birthday, he bought me a single bit Collins axe at the Lyon and Garrett Hardware store in Red Bluff, back when the store was on Main Street and still in business. That axe's been re-handled a couple of time and the poll still wears that "Collins blue" paint. I use to use it to split kindling, but now it sits in the tool box with the rest of my axe collection. I found this wonderful Collins axe advertisement, I think it was part of a calendar, at an antique store in Redding.