Axe #410

Nicely stamped vintage Dunlap boy's axe. Straight-grained 28" Amish-turned hickory handle hung on a 2.5 lb. head and secured by a black walnut wedge. 

The Dunlap brand was a Sears-owned line of tools, supposedly named after Tom Dunlap, the manager of the Sears hardware division from the 1930s through the 1950s.

Sears filed a trademark application for the Dunlap brand in 1938 and the trademark was issued as #369,614 on August 1, 1939. The trademark registration shows an oval design enclosing the text "Dunlap", and the first use date was listed as January 23, 1937.

Dunlap tools began appearing in the Sears catalogs in the 1938-1939 Fall and Winter edition.  Dunlap tools continued to be offered at least into the late 1950s.