Attempting to Identify

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Chad Harrod

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I recently picked this up for next to nothing at a flea market and was hoping someone could help me identify the blade "type" and possibly a date? As you can see from the photos its Taylor Cutlery 440 stainless. It's very faintly etched Japan under 440 stainless which I dont know came through in the photos all that well. I'd like to find a sheath for it as it seems a decent quality and fits my hand quite well.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u2VxqPLOOJ_5l3LP3pbpkFNNDhOp6Z-_/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XjuC0u-kckVohAGy9QJG7ZrzfQK7oOq2/view?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/17oPCXHwyGndn-lGu7_NeKvF0qXEJ-ZhS/view?usp=sharing
 
I would call the blade a bull-nosed skinner. Probably made in Seki Japan, maybe early 1990s, should be a very serviceable knife.
 
Blade shape looks like a skinner, with all the 'belly' curvature there. Googling around a bit, I see a lot of similar blade profiles described as 'bull-nose' skinner, with that blunted or clipped tip profile.
 
Thank you kindly for the replies fellas. I'll do a search for bull-nosed and see if anything pops up.
 
I can tell you it's from the 80's and the laminate handle scales are what's called frost wood.

It seems the knives from Taylor, parker, and frost always had the model numbers and or model names on the box and not the knife.
Sometimes an etch on the blade if there was an animal like a grizzly bear or something involved in the name which they could do an image of.
 
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