Tool Types

Axes, Handles, Scythes, Wetstones

DATM Information

Rixford lits an "Est. 1812" date, but probably succeeded L.&L.P. Rixford or possibly some even earlier business. It's unclear whether RIXFORD and EBONY marked axes are earlier or later Rixfords or from the Canada Axe & Harvest Tool Mfg. Co.

Identifying Marks

RIXFORD; EBONY

General Information
 
O.S. Rixford was the youngest son of one Luther Rixford and evidently succeeded him around 1838. He built a foundry to make stoves around 1865 and employed roughly 30 people at the time.

Photographs

 References

Nelson, Robert E., Ed. (1999). Directory of American Toolmakers: A listing of identified makers of tools who worked in Canada and the United States before 1900. Early American Industries Association.

Rixford, O. S. (ca. 1887). O. S. Rixford's scythes and axes East Highgate, Vermont. T. O. Metcalf & Co., Printers, 48 Oliver St., Boston, MA.

Links

http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/FranklinHighgate.html -- Highgate township history including notes on O.S. Rixford