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Interesting. Just appeared on ebay. I've done an internet search and have only come up with others also searching; no Baker Axe Co., etc. I did find a Baker Hardware in South Dakota and Baker & Hamilton, Agricultural Goods and Hardware, San Francisco.
I have no connection to the seller

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rare-Baker-Axe-H...o-/131420903442





Hunter Arms Co. made water meters, electric motors and fans, and bicycles. Of course Winchester made tools and roller skates and about anything else that would sell. And J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co.
Any other turn-of-the-century gun makers also produce tools?

Drew,
I can't comment on the hatchet. I do have, and use often, a Charles Parker, Meriden, CONN bench vise. I've seen another one and would have tried to get it had it not been broken. Occasionally a Parker coffee grinder shows up.

Parker made hundreds of other items besides guns, lamps, tools, kitchen and household items, even flatware and piano stools, much of it precedes their making guns.

I have not heard of Baker (the gun maker) producing tools, i wonder if the Batavia town historian has any info on their products

maybe Daryl Hallquist will chime in

http://bakercollectors.com/index.php?p=1_6_History-of-William-H-Baker

Baker continued as a foging company making automobile parts among other things, after they dumped their gun business on H & D Folsom Arms Co.

E. Remington & Sons made farm machinery and other hardware items with their excess plant capacity after the Northern War of Aggression. Remington Arms Co. continued and also made typewriters, sewing machines, bicycles, etc. After The Great War Remington Arms Co., Inc. made a lot of cutlery.

A.H. Fox Gun Co. made golf equipment, fishing reels, toy guns, lots of automobile accessories, and other light industrial items after The Great War. They continued making such items up to at least 1980 as Fox Products, after they unloaded the tottering gun business on Savage Arms Corp.

Ithaca Gun Co. made typewriters at one time and much later made an insecticide sprayer that I know of.

My dad had a two horse one row walking cultivator made by Parker. I think its still at his old place somewhere grown up with weeds. I forget exactly how it was marked, perhaps Parker, Snow or soe version of that. At one time I had looked up approximately when the name was in use. The vises & coffee grinders are fairly common.
If my memory is correct I recall that in the LAC 1913 catalog they were listing bicycle chains.

I am not aware of any Baker tools. If so, I think the Baker Gun and Forging Co. logo would have been on the item. After Baker sold the gun making part of their business in 1919, the Forging business continued. I believe a later name of Batavia Metal Products is in business today.

You are correct Miller. 1903.
https://books.google.com/books?id=qC4qAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA135&lpg
"also makes hammerless shot guns"

Thanks everyone and Daryl the font is certainly different than the usual Baker logos. Both 1898.

Doc Drew, there might be some thing to the hardware store connection. There are similar pattern hatchets and heads available, and they are all over the map with values and descriptions. One of them is a 'keen kutter', another big hardware store retailer. They may have been marked as the customer preferred.

I have a Parker Bench Vise that I would love to sell to someone that can figure out how to ship it.