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Circa: mid to late 1800's
This is a very rare mid-1800's, large rocker type chopping knife, with the half-moon blade the is 11" long and has two handles that are hand forged, on the square peg attachment to the blade. The handles themselves are hardwood, but have the center iron pin with threaded nuts on the ends. As you can see there is a split line in one of the handles, but is is very solid, and is not loose at all.
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| The handles also have old brass furrule that are pinned in place, to help keep the wood from splitting. We believe that this is a leather cutting type knife, considering it's larger size, but it may have been made for some kitchen application as well. The blade is in nice shape, fairly thick and heavy duty at the top, tapering down gradually to a normal knife blade width, with a fairly sharp cutting edge on it, but most likely hasn't been sharpened in decades. You may want to give it a new honing if you intend to use it. A unique antique knife! |
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