Odd knife

M ELEY · 14th July 2008, 06:18 AM

Hmmm...one of those 'could be from anywhere' type-knives.

The blade did strike me as Khyber, but the thinness & lack of bolster pretty much rules that out. The huge size of it and thinnes of blade rules out the typical bowies. The blade shape reminds me of the Chinese ox-bow types (sorry, don't know the correct name), but I can't ever recall one with stag hilts? The Scots loved stag handles, but their weapons didn't look like this? Stag hilts were popular on gambler's dirks, but nothing this big! Doesn't resemble any Spanish colonial machetes/espada, too big for a bread knife. Soooo...if I had to guess, I would say this piece might be part of a hunting trousse. Many of the knives were oversized, such as this and typically decked out in stag fixtures. Some were plain and some, quite decorated. They came with a variety of tiny knives, skewers, forks, etc, to prepare the kill.

14th July 2008, 06:18 AM	#5
M ELEY Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NC, U.S.A. Posts: 2,141	Hmmm...one of those 'could be from anywhere' type-knives. The blade did strike me as Khyber, but the thinness & lack of bolster pretty much rules that out. The huge size of it and thinnes of blade rules out the typical bowies. The blade shape reminds me of the Chinese ox-bow types (sorry, don't know the correct name), but I can't ever recall one with stag hilts? The Scots loved stag handles, but their weapons didn't look like this? Stag hilts were popular on gambler's dirks, but nothing this big! Doesn't resemble any Spanish colonial machetes/espada, too big for a bread knife. Soooo...if I had to guess, I would say this piece might be part of a hunting trousse. Many of the knives were oversized, such as this and typically decked out in stag fixtures. Some were plain and some, quite decorated. They came with a variety of tiny knives, skewers, forks, etc, to prepare the kill.