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Category - Knives - Knives - Hunting

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Knives
Knives - Hunting

ultra Rare 1830's Dog Bone bowie knife-with original silver scabbard

Description:
Presenting a bowie knife collection in one knife out of famous collection last 4 owners all ABKA members, provenance will be supplied to buyer- beautiful buffalo dogbone with silver escutcheon plate and silver
pins, entire handle tapered enveloped in pinned silver mounting just shy of 14 inches overall - blade portion 8 5/8" to butrice that fits against the silver sheath with original nickle belt button. the blade shows minor use with slight period sharpening the point is original- also wish to call attention to the scalloping atop the blade a unique feature for sure-the silver guard has one side extended slightly about 1/4" as was done on fighting knives known made in the louisiana area, some call this knife a possible Butcher manufacture in england but the jury is out on both possibilities.They did make a slightly larger wider blade model with with a rat tailed metal scabbard-the smaller variety like mine is much rarer I believe-PLEASE NOTE: the spanish notch so called at the back of the blade an early trait as well as the same notch aligning with the scabbard- No one can conclusively state the intention of the spanish notch- but let me offer my thoughts that it was used to cut sinew-deer flesh-in making rope/twine, one could insert the sinew and by pulling the blade out of the scabbard the sinew would be cut.
The knife is in near mint condition as is the scabbard and as one can see in the photos fts perfectly and shows the outline of the blade from years of storage--there are no makers marks but on the riccaso there is a faint number that appears to be 1834, is it a year or a collection number--i'm more inclined to believe its a year as all the features place the knife historically in that era- It is a wonderful knife and quite rare in the field of collecting, the look it has is quite the eye catcher- please feel free to contact me for any questions you may have as i collect bowies, and civil war weaponry since 1964--

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