The one that got away...

[Dmitry]

Let's save these photos for posterity.
Look at the pick end again, and imagine if you'd drove it into, say, an oak door. Do you think a flat-planed blade would be easy to pull out, provided it didn't break upon impact?
Paraphrasing the great Levine - "Read the axe, not the story". In this case the seller was right - it is a fire axe, [probably used to hang on a wall of a janitor's closet].