🔎 UNIDENTIFIED What was this 14" knife used for?

[oldbattleaxe]

measures 14" long. On the top of the blade it has smooth bumps on the spine. It is quite heavy.

 

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[bowwinkles]

When I was a kid and we had tools like that and they were referred to as being Butcher Knives".

 

[oldbattleaxe]

Me Too Could very well be. I have never seen a knife with humps like that on the spine though.

 

[releventchair]

Nice knife. Nice full tang and a stop to not want a guard on it.

Use it for many things.
But it's near roach belly design is more of a slicer. Also called scalpers some places at one time.

Why the back of the spine is like it is I don't know. Perhaps baton-ed on with something too hard.

If the knife held on it's side flexes just a little then it's good to go brawl against the wilderness and folks headed back of beyond might have considered it suitable.

If it's easy to bend and flexes easy it would work as a boning knife for deboning critters. Chase around bones efficiently and trim tight to them.

Otherwise ,breaking down a large animal quickly into manageable portions from deer to moose it should work.
It's design wants to slice. Not stab.
Compared to the bulbed flare on a butcher knifes profile than kind of helps cut steaks , your pictured knife is more like the modern butchers convex curve kinda like a scimitar. But curved more at the end/front. Another slicer.

General purpose but more.
And fancier than a cheap butcher knife which did much of society's work over time.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Agree with others, butcher knife.

 

[Almy]

The marks on the side and top edge appear to be made by a course grinder. That and the overall shape of the knife (including the waves on the top) suggest that it was handmade from a piece of steel, perhaps some other implement like a file or a piece of farm equipment. I like it.

 

[potsherd_creek]

Those bumps are the way it came out of someone's coal forge, handmade in a time of necessity and when function came second to clean lines. It helped a family(s) get through many a winter.
Very old, cool as heck and a keeper for sure.

 

[Tony in SC]

Blacksmith made butcher knife!

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

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What was this 14" knife used for? ... obviously it was used to butcher North American large Game animals like the one who donated the antler for the handle I also make these ​