A leather blade guard for the Snow & Nealley Penobscot Bay Kindling Axe, the Maine-made 17 in kindling axe with a 1-3/4 lb head and a 3-3/4 in wide bit.
Charles Snow and Edward Bowdoin Nealley founded Snow & Nealley in Bangor, Maine, in 1864. It started out making hardware for ships, then tools for the region's booming lumber trade. After the old company closed, a Maine Amish family bought the brand and brought the work back to Maine, where they drop-forge each head from high-carbon steel, then hand-temper and grind it.