Looking to identify

[harris1]

Found in field metal detecting , wandering what era it's from much thanks to whomever responds.

 

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[GTK96]

It's a knife with the wooden handle rotted away and the holes left to attach it still present in the handle

 

[Bryanhashemi]

yep...looks like GT gottit

 

[haraldmartin]

Maybe a bread cutter? is it in cm you are measuring the knife with?

 

[vpnavy]

Just a quick suggestion harris1 - unless I am missing it (having another senior moment) the maps are great but maybe the state would also help?

 

[creskol]

My guess would be around Lexington, KY

 

[Moonrover]

My guess would be around Lexington, KY

Was the revealing clue ... "Man-O-War Blvd"? <lol>

M

 

[creskol]

Was the revealing clue ... "Man-O-War Blvd"? <lol>

M

 

[vpnavy]

Geez, the ole "Man o War Blvd" got past me!

 

[harris1]

Sorry new to forum and that's only way it seems to let me post with item and my location. And yes Lexington Ky

 

[kuger]

I have several of that same blade,yours has seen some use....repeated sharpening

 

[BosnMate]

Well sharpened over years of use. It's impossible to date a knife from looks, because knives have been around for so many hundreds of years that there is no shape that has not been made. Your knife has a very common shape and is in use today. Knives of that shape were called "scalping knives," when traded with the Indians. Skinning knives had/have a different shape.
This is probably close to what you knife looked like when new. This one is the traditional skinning knife.

 

[nhbenz]

Any markings (even partial) near the base of the blade?

 

[DCMatt]

Well sharpened over years of use. It's impossible to date a knife from looks, because knives have been around for so many hundreds of years that there is no shape that has not been made. Your knife has a very common shape and is in use today. Knives of that shape were called "scalping knives," when traded with the Indians. Skinning knives had/have a different shape.
View attachment 762050This is probably close to what you knife looked like when new. View attachment 762055 This one is the traditional skinning knife.

Agree. Well used butcher knife sharpened many many times. My dad still has some like these at home in the kitchen from the early 1960's.

DCMatt

 

[ginnysdaddy]

Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done
She gave her father forty-one.

 

[Paleopilot]

Found in field metal detecting , wandering what era it's from much thanks to whomever responds.

Definatly a Butcher's knife, more specifically, a boning knife. Age, because of the wooden "cheeks", turn of the last century or so. Here are some typical knives.