Robert, it could perfectly be mexican. I have seenmany times this kind of old knifes here, secured with wire, when I was a child. And they were already old. There have been many manofacturers of this type of knives along the time, and along the country´s territory, so it is not strange to find a stamp previously unknown. I think the curved edge was made along the resharpenings. Sometimes this can happen when a portion of the edge is broken and there is a need to remove this part to get a continous edge again, sometimes only a part of the edge is resharpened because it is the most used and continuosly dulled. Those knives were treated as tools, and not as a collector item. This kind of knife was an unexpensive and common working tool in the old times, when Mexico was an agrarian country. I don´t know if in other countries had very similar knives, but it is no impossible.
Regards
Gonzalo
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