Thoughts on this knife?

[Bassmaster96]

Blade is really thin. Homemade? I couldn't find any marks on it

 

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[ARC]

Mid to late 1800's IMO... err possibly.

 

[smallfoot]

Mid to late 1800's IMO... err possibly.

And into early 1900s. I have a few similar knives here along with steels of the same style. Yours has been repaired. There would have been a bolster between the blade and stag handle..sometimes made of silver, some with nickel silver, some in brass. The bolster would resemble a thimble in shape with slot for blade tang. Decorations if any appeared here. Most were simple like the blade.

 

[releventchair]

Well worn commercial English (?) offering would be my guess.
The area that would see a smooth ferrule in other offering has "rings" molded that also appear in some smaller tableware.

Possibly , your knife is from a carving set.

"Warranted" is stamped on many . And means different things than today.

 

[smallfoot]

Couple of shots:

 

[Bassmaster96]

Thanks a lot for the info guys. Cleared up a lot of questions I had about it

 

[conslade]

Looks like the slicer from an old carving set. They usually had a knife, and serving fork. Many were made in Sheffield, England and imported to the US. Sometimes the ferrule ( the little piece between the handle and blade) was made of Sterling silver and so marked. The rest were made from nickel silver.