"Average" EDC knife 50, 100, or 200 years ago?

[Xian]

Just by sheer mass production, I'd assume that the "average" EDC knife today is probably something in 420, cheap, likely pretty small- a folder, with a good amount of plastic, made overseas, and carried by someone who doesn't even know what EDC means.

What was the "average" EDC knife like 50, 100, and 200 years ago? What main style of knife? What main materials? How much did they spend on it? How much did they use it?

 

[not2sharp]

50 years ago(1950s) it was probably one of the common slip joint folders. The stockman would have been the most common, but there would have been plenty of other good choices.

100 years ago (1900s) it would have been a smaller fixed bladed hunting knife. Something like the Marbles Ideal or Woodsman.

200 Years ago (1800) your EDC would have been a full sized fixed bladed knife. Mostly large simple butcher knives, or for the more refined either a Small Sword or hanger.

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