🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Iron and bone Knife

[Wild Colonial Boy]

Found this knife today, at a colonial farm site,
looks like a craft style knife
appears to have bone or antler handle and maybe one brass lozenge stud, any insight to its age and use
much appreciated

 

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[hollARDog]

Is the tip broke or a sheepsfoot style?

 

[Blackfoot58]

Is the tip broke or a sheepsfoot style?

That doesn’t appear to be a Sheep’s foot style. Attached is a sheep’s foot photo. Yours looks broken or rust away at the tip. Still a very nice find. Congrats!

 

[hollARDog]

That doesn’t appear to be a Sheep’s foot style. Attached is a sheep’s foot photo. Yours looks broken or rust away at the tip. Still a very nice find. Congrats!

To early for my eyes 😔
I'll go feed animals now🤘

 

[callmez]

Table knife with forged bolster, more or less "factory made". Could be very old, but they were made this way for quite some time (let's say 1800-1900 on this one). If it is marked, the marking would be roughly an inch in front of the bolster on the obverse side (left side if you were holding it as if you were about to cut something.)

 

[ToddsPoint]

I don’t think it’s a table knife. It looks like a Spanish dagger. The top edge of the blade would be thin on table knife. A Spanish dagger would have a thick top edge. The Spanish dagger was the model Bowie used for his knives. This is a Spanish dagger I finished. It was a rough forging from France when I got it. Mammoth ivory scales backed with ebony.

 

[ToddsPoint]

Here’s a pic of some of the knives made by Bowie along with my Spanish dagger.