🔎 UNIDENTIFIED BLADE. HAYS KANSAS

[ixKNIVESxi]

Found this in my front yard about a foot deep. Its VERY, VERY durable......

Reminds me of the tip of a cutlass?

Or rather (and perhaps more likely) an old buffalo skinning knife.

Any ideas?

 

[Mud Hut]

A broken tine off of an old spring harrow would be my guess.

 

[ixKNIVESxi]

A broken tine off of an old spring harrow would be my guess.

Ehhhhh i looked up images of all different types and saw nothing that looked even remotely similair. It could be?! I duno. But lets keep delving lol

 

[DizzyDigger]

The on-edge pic sure looks like a knife edge, to me. It's old, and
was likely hand forged, but the blade is not really designed as a
skinning knife, although I'm certain that back then they used
whatever was at hand.

 

[Mud Hut]

Ehhhhh i looked up images of all different types and saw nothing that looked even remotely similair. It could be?! I duno. But lets keep delving lol

You are probably right.. after another look, it doesn't appear to have any curvature to it.

 

[searcher]

Does appear to be a broken knife blade.
There's so much corrosion and pitting it is really hard to tell who made it, what it's original shape was and what the original use was.

You could do a hardness test if you have the files.

Or a spark test to kind of guess what steel it is made from.
Grind it and see type and color of sparks it produces.
Instructions can be found online.

 

[Sandog]

It is reminiscent of some of my fathers old butcher knives made from even older saw blades. They had that same hammered look.

 

[Sandog]

It is reminiscent of some of my fathers old butcher knives made from even older saw blades. They had that same hammered look.View attachment 2230309

That butcher block is a single tree trunk section.

 

[Older The Better]

May not amount to much but over here in the other corner of the state a piece of metal in that state tends to be in that 1800’s range, I’ve got a lot of stuff clustering around 1830 that have that level of degradation. I think it looks good for a knife