Surely a carving knife???
 

Look here
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWA:IT&ih=008
Looks like a carving knife part or the knife fork set. It just does not look convincing. Whay say you?

Well I must agree with Tim definately a carving knife. Old Sheffield bowies were pretty stout knives this one seems whimpy to me.

Lew

Looks like a nice hollow ground carving knife to me. The point looks to be reworked, possible to give it that bowie appearance? JMHO

This is almost certainly a carving knife from a late 19th early 20th century set usually with a similar sized twin tined fork and sometimes a sharpening steel as well, lots on E-Bay. The long necked short tailed hound is a deer.
Regards,
Norman.

Its a carving knife, the poor use of ground ends to the antler to make it fit the blade would be 20th century not 19th if made in England or indeed europe, IMHO of course...

Spiral

Gentlemen , Forbear !
 

Somewhere ; someone believes . :cool: :cool:

Maybe if we sprinkle fairy dust on it and wish really,really hard. :p :rolleyes: :D

Lew

I doubt that this is a carving knife.

I have a number of 19th century carving knives and in all cases the blade thickness at the base of the blade is very, very much less than the blade thickness of this example.

Perhaps 20 or so years ago I owned a very similar knife to this one that was still with its original leather sheath.

I think that this is probably the larger of the two knives that were used for field dressing of game in 19th century Scotland.

A sort of carving knife :D certainly not a bowie. Too light, no rivits, no through tang.

No, definitely not a bowie, and I guess yes, some kind of carving knife---just not for use at table.

I think the correct name is a gralloch knife---but I'm running on memory and could be wrong.

Hello,
Gralloch is the correct term with regard to the dressing of deer.
Regards,
Norman.

Thanks Norman.

That's a deer on the pommel cap, isn't it?

Hello A.G.,
I would say it's a deer, I've kept hounds, in fact I have a rather large Greyhound lying at my feet at the moment and she agrees, long neck short tail it's a deer, yummy.
Regards,
Norman.

Ah, well, since we have the agreement of our expert greyhound, I guess it truly is a knife for use on the deer.

For use on deer, certainly, whether out on the hill or out of the oven is another question altogether?
Regards,
Norman.