Help identifying this cleaver!

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rachet197

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I believe is says SOLID STEEL
FOSTERBROS
TRADE
arrow mark
MARK
What time period?
Is Foster Bros a quality brand?
Any idea on the steel used?
1/4" thick. 6" edge, 5" tall at end hump. 12" total length.

THX in advance
 
Foster Bros was known for the quality steels through the early 1900s. As the butcher industry progressed they moved on early in the century to saws to reduce the amount of bone shards that were caused by hand work (cleavers). I have read that Foster Bros was well known for thier in-house heat treat. I have several Foster Bros cleavers and they do seem to perform well.
 
tomsch said:
Foster Bros was known for the quality steels through the early 1900s. As the butcher industry progressed they moved on early in the century to saws to reduce the amount of bone shards that were caused by hand work (cleavers). I have read that Foster Bros was well known for their in-house heat treat. I have several Foster Bros cleavers and they do seem to perform well.
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Thanks for the info, they sound high end.
Great for me as this was going to be a user.
 
I have read the comments here and elsewhere about Foster markings on cleavers. My question is this: Can anyone distinguish between "Foster Bros" marked items that also say "trade mark" (like this thread, with the arrow picture) and those that do not have those additional words? Seems that ought to break the "Foster Bros" mark period into halves, of certain specific years---those before and those after the addition of the "trade mark" lettering. Nothing I see explains sub-periods during that long period of manufacture marking. My cleaver does NOT have the "trade mark" words.
 
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