Spear point with raw unfinished steel tang ??

[brad2008]

marked 1914 with the number 16 below it .... i dont even know where to begin researching this so any help would be appreciated ......the tang is 3/8's thick and the blade itself is 5 1/2''s long and 1'' an its widest point

thanks in adance

[Vanguard41xx]

To me it looks like someone was in the middle of forging/hammering it and stopped... ???

[brad2008]

To me it looks like someone was in the middle of forging/hammering it and stopped... ???

do they typically stamp knives before theyre finished ? .........i dont know just throwin out ideas

[Fixed Blade]

It looks like one of the blades they forged from pieces of schrapnel but the date is a tad early for WW1.
FB in Vt.

[tltt]

WWI souvenir made from shrapnel. See the 1914 16 date? Years of the war that the person was probably there.

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Edit - Similar - http://www.collectorsweekly.com/stor...-letter-opener .

Google search "WWI shrapnel trench art" .

[anvilring]

Now I love that....

[brad2008]

looks like the same guy made both the one i have an the one on that website .......practically identical........aprreciate the help, thank you

[Ishrub]

It looks like one of the blades they forged from pieces of schrapnel but the date is a tad early for WW1.
FB in Vt.

The rest of the world was at war for quite a while before the US came in late. World War I (WWI) was a global war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918.

The U.S. Congress declared war on 6 April 1917. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_W..._United_States