Need help by identification of a knife

[Rich]

Originally Posted by ingelred

Hello,

at the moment I have no literature at hand but I have sveral books, where this kind of knife is depicted. Accoring to these books these knives where made in the middle of the 19th century in Solingen for export to Middle and South America.

Greetings Helge

I would agree, European, but I was thinking English or Scandinavian, made
for the whaling trade - perhaps a whale butchering knife/ blubber knife??

Rich S