Scrooge's pickax - a Don Rosa error?

[Olaf Solstrand]

Don Rosa really confused me this time. My question is about Scrooge's 
pickax, which he used in the gold rush.

The story "last sled to Dawson" shows that the pickax was on the sled with 
other memories from Scrooge's past. Yet, in Lo$ part 12, Donald finds the 
same pickax in the chest on Scrooge's store room! We KNOW that "Life of 
Scrooge part 12" (1947) happened long before "Last sled to Dawson" (1954), 
so what's the explanation?

One possible explanation is that this was two different pickaxes, but I 
doubt it. Scrooge would never buy a new pickax when the old one still was 
useable. (or another english word...) Which it appearantly was - if we 
presume that the last pickax Scrooge ever owned was the one on the sled 
(which we must believe, since he would not need to buy another pickax when 
he was leaving Whitehorse for the last time), the eventually first one was 
the one in the chest in the storeroom. And when it still could be used to 
open a door, I don't see why he didn't use it for the rest of the gold rush.

Was this a fatal mistake, or does everything have a logical explanation?




-olaf-
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