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Interesting little George Wostenholm
Picked this up off the bay and it was delivered a couple of days ago. It's a 5/8 near wedge IXL Spanish point with a worked spine. The tang has fine jimping on the top and bottom. The edge looks like it will come back with a bevel set. The scales are from a Robeson 35H350 "razor that fits your face" and are in pretty good shape (a few deeper scratches around the pivot). They look like they have the original wedge and wedge pins.
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The tang stamp is what I'm finding interesting. There's no indication of England or Sheffield anywhere on the tang. Strazors states the Washington Works factory ran from 1848 to 1978. The company was bought by Joseph Rodgers in 1971, then Richards in 1975, and finally Imperial Knife of New York in 1977. I'm wondering if this could have been produced by Imperial in New York explaining the lack of Sheffield or England stamps :shrug:
Should clean up pretty nice with some new scales.
At the moment I have no use for the Robeson scales, so if anyone wants/needs them let me know and I'll send them out.
