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Interesting. Who's the maker?

Mid 1800's?

NEAT knife!!

THAT is a NEAT old knife! Don't see them over here. :(

I did find an old warrior for a decent price the other day though.

KA-BAR folding hunter with the dogs head shield and "match striker"...

Jimmy, I think it looks that way because the blade has shifted due to either the old pin being worn or bent. It's not uncommon for a spring to bell out where the blade contacts it upon opening in...

Here ya go. A fairly recent one G. David model.
http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/uu303/Wullie_01/G%20David%20Laguiole/Lag4.jpg
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WOW, it's even prettier than I thought. That scales are works of art.

The "milled" liners are a nice touch as well.

Interesting about the violet and the Bonapartists. That would date the knife...

BEAUTIFUL!!

I hope that meat isn't so tough that you had to use that hammer to stick that pretty knife in it. ;)

I carry a Challenge Cutlery "tear drop" jack with ebony scales every day. I too like the oldies. I'm down to around 100 or so of various configurations, but the old spear blades and straight pulls...

Here ya go Jimmy,
http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/uu303/Wullie_01/Horseman%20Knife/12-29-2009018.jpg
ebony handled version of that pretty you posted.

No rooster nutters in my pile. but I have...

Hoosiers knife looks like, a knife. Old lock back. The steel/nickel silver pin through the bolster was and still is a German style of pinning up a pocket knife. Knife might have been re-pinned at...