Anyone recognise this?
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It's 11 inches long and used to have a wooden handle.
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I would guess that it's 11" inches long *now* but used to be longer. It looks like it would have had a long handle too. Can't really guess what it would have been for though.
Tim
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Not sure what you mean, the metal part doesn't look like it's lost any of it. And the stamp has the number 11 in a box.
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Can you make out what the lettering on the blade says?
When you say it had a wooden handle, I presume, from the fact that the blade is socketed to fit on a shaft, that it would have been a relatively long handle. Do you have any idea of how long?
Colin Bignell
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The number 11 in a square on the right of the inscription (which I took to refer to the blade length of 11 inches).
And on the left of the inscription I can see what I think is "OHNS" in the middle of a word, which could be "JOHNSON"?
I have no idea of the shaft length. There is some wood left, inside the socket. The wood has broken off at the end of the socket.
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Hedging 'knife' ?
Avpx
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I don't think it would be intended to cut meat etc against a block because of the curved blade. It could be something used for hedging.
Bill
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I was rather more interested in the bit to the left of that, which looks a bit like a maker's mark.
It could simply be OHNS - Oil Hardening Non-shrinking Steel - an old-fashioned description for a type of steel used for edged cutting tools.
My guess would be that it could be a slasher: a blade mounted on a handle about four feet long and used for cutting down brush and scrub.
Colin Bignell
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This is a hedging knife and it doesn't look quite like that:
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Not sure what that is, if anyone is familiar with them, they could perhaps read it:
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Perhaps, although I thought I could see one character to the left and two to the right which are illegible.
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11 years ago
yes. It looks lie a billhook machete minus the hook.
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curved blades are used in the kitchen, but thats between a chopper and a knife.
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is close
Other poss. is butchery
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The socket for the handle suggests something long. Short handled blades more usually have a tang.
Colin Bignell
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It'll definitely do for beating someone up that's for sure.
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However I fear that may depend, rather a lot, on where in the country you (or the blade) derives from.
Avpx
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If you browse this site
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you will see several very similar blades, all described simply as "slasher blades"
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good point
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Fair enough. I just though the blade tip looked like it had been broken off because of the angles. You're better placed obviously to see whether it looks broken (and maybe re-ground) or has always been that shape.
Tim
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I think it came from the North of England.
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It doesn't look broken. Unless it was broken and reground a long time ago. That edge looks the same as the rest of it.
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By Jove, I think I've got it:
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J.