Found a Knife Looking for info

[Hunter1805]

Found this yesterday at a river war of 1812 site .. Not 100 years old but it is old .. Who can tell me about it.

 

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[Blackfoot58]

I can’t tell any history, but I consider it to be a wonderful find. It appears to have been a large, heavy duty work knife. It doesn’t have the tapered tip of a fighting knife. I’d guess it’s main purpose was for butchering meat. Probably had a hickory handle. Nice and heavy for chopping through smaller bones. May have been used around the campfire as well.

 

[Nathan W]

Found this yesterday at a river war of 1812 site .. Not 100 years old but it is old .. Who can tell me about it.

 

[ARC]

Looks like a kin folks.. or a chatillon.

You need to clean and post better pictures.

 

[Digger RJ]

Found this yesterday at a river war of 1812 site .. Not 100 years old but it is old .. Who can tell me about it.

Cool!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Blackfoot58]

Looks like a kin folks.. or a chatillon.

You need to clean and post better pictures.

The blade certainly resembles a chatillon. I’m not familiar with any having such a pronounced bolster/guard though some may have had them. I’ll bet it was an important part of every day life for its owner.

 

[oldmxrat]

Cool find, def needs a soak in the electrolysis tank. There might be markings on it.

 

[hampton detector]

Found this yesterday at a river war of 1812 site .. Not 100 years old but it is old .. Who can tell me about it.

Very cool!

 

[E-Trac-Ohio]

Great find !

 

[Tencents]

Found this yesterday at a river war of 1812 site .. Not 100 years old but it is old .. Who can tell me about it.

Looks like a military medical knife

 

[Tencents]

Looks like a military medical knife

WW2 military bolo knife

 

[EDavis]

Found this yesterday at a river war of 1812 site .. Not 100 years old but it is old .. Who can tell me about it.

Looks cool, hope you find out. I wouldn’t butter my bread with it though 🤣👍