Small Knife ID Help Needed

Robert · 1st November 2008, 05:38 AM

My thanks to everyone who has answered this thread with their thoughts on where this knife is from. The only thing that I can say with any conviction is that it has been repeatedly sharpened and the last time it looks like it was done with a grinder. The blade is only slightly over 1/8" at the hilt and tapers evenly to the tip. If it has ever been cut down the entire blade would have had to been reground to keep this even of a shape. Without being ground, anything past the existing tip would have been paper thin. Can anyone show another example of one of these knives? Thanks again.

Robert

Gonzalo G · 1st November 2008, 07:13 AM

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

Robert · 1st November 2008, 06:37 PM

Again my thanks to everyone for their help in identifying where this knife is from. The grip I just found out is horn and not wood as I originally thought. There is also a very small bolster between the blade and grip. I agree that the curve in the sharpened edge was done by either repeated sharpening / honing or was ground away to remove a broken or chipped portion. Because of its size and overall design I did not think that it was ever intended to be used as a weapon. Just an interesting old knife well worth finding some history on.

Robert

1st November 2008, 05:38 AM	#1
Robert EAAF Staff Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Centerville, Kansas Posts: 2,196	My thanks to everyone who has answered this thread with their thoughts on where this knife is from. The only thing that I can say with any conviction is that it has been repeatedly sharpened and the last time it looks like it was done with a grinder. The blade is only slightly over 1/8" at the hilt and tapers evenly to the tip. If it has ever been cut down the entire blade would have had to been reground to keep this even of a shape. Without being ground, anything past the existing tip would have been paper thin. Can anyone show another example of one of these knives? Thanks again. Robert

1st November 2008, 07:13 AM	#2
Gonzalo G Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Nothern Mexico Posts: 458	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

1st November 2008, 06:37 PM	#3
Robert EAAF Staff Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Centerville, Kansas Posts: 2,196	Again my thanks to everyone for their help in identifying where this knife is from. The grip I just found out is horn and not wood as I originally thought. There is also a very small bolster between the blade and grip. I agree that the curve in the sharpened edge was done by either repeated sharpening / honing or was ground away to remove a broken or chipped portion. Because of its size and overall design I did not think that it was ever intended to be used as a weapon. Just an interesting old knife well worth finding some history on. Robert