↑ 209: Ames

• Made in USA [ca. 1944].
• 925x325 mm.
• Weight: 1270 g.
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 35x25 mm.
• Fixed head with carabiner hole.
• Curved adze with straight edge.
• Adze: 85(l)x63(w)x0(curve) mm.
• Straight Alpine pick with a pointed tip and with 6 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 165(l)x19(h)x7(t) mm.
• Square spike.
• Spike: 68(l)x15(w)x14(t) mm.
• Glide ring and stop are missing.
• This is a solid but very heavy ice axe with a large head.
• Many of these axes had "US" and "AMES" stamped on the pick, but his axe does not; instead, it has those marks stamped on the spike ferrule.

↑ 226: Ames

• Made in USA [ca. 1944].
• 188x320 mm.
• Weight: 555 g.
• Fixed head.
• Straight adze with straight edge.
• Adze: 85(l)x63(w)x0(curve) mm.
• Straight Alpine pick with a pointed tip and with 6 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 170(l)x19(h)x9(t) mm.
• Head only. This one is stamped "U S" and "AMES."
• I plan to make a short handle for this one.