All About Pocket Knives

As The crocodile man might say this is nearly big enough to be a knife. The blade is a full 12 inches with the handle adding another 5 1/2 inches for 17.5 oal. If you could find an animal big enough this could be a great boning blade on top of its normal
duties. The wood on the handle is truly a work of art. Look closely at the way the slabs have been finished. The blade is fully forged. I have not tried to check age but I would bet somewhere in the last half of the 1800's, closer to the middle. You can hold the blade at the tip with your thumb and index finger and let go of the handle and it falls about 4 inches. It is floppy with plenty of spring to come back to normal. I suppose this needs to go into a museum if one exists for items like this.
moss

A fine piece of historic cutlery for sure.

Cool old piece of cutlery. Made after 1891, likely early 1900s since it has "England" on the blade.

If I had it would use it.

Gunsil:
Thanks, I knew that and just plain old forgot it. I stand corrected.
moss

wlf:
With the gaps between the tang and the handle I think it would suffer damage with washing. Repairing would IMO detract from the appearance of knife. I do carefully use it for light duty chopping every now and then like maybe today.
Thanks,
moss

In Bernard Levine's 4th edition I believe he said that Jordan was a preferred butcher knife to collect, for quality reasons.

Nice old knife, Moss.

Here's a slicer from about the same vintage. The blade is very thin at the tip.

I bet these old one would take an edge that would split a hair. Nice knife. By the way the use of aetna was began in 1869. I will find the photo and come back with a URL.
moss