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Log Marking Hammer

2022.41.01

Log marks were registered in each county according to laws established in the Michigan legislature. The men who worked in the logging camps and on the rivers were a gregarious lot, who teased, and made up songs and crafted stories of Paul Bunyan. The design of log marks were another creative outlet for the men, an art using mainly line in patterns – straight lines, initials, triangles, squares or combinations of them. For example, the mark “C” for Cranes, a company in south Frankfort, from about 1895. Hammers like this were used to blast the mark into the log. The number “C” and "X" is forged backwards into the tool, to properly mark the log.

1835 Logging and Lumbering

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approximate

6 in

3 in

18 in

Sec 3E Shelf S18

Fair

A well-used tool. Heavy, metal head wobbles on wooden handle.

Johnson, O.R. 1815-1895

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