Let's see your good old basic fixed blades, Bowie's, Stickers, etc.

[SharpBits]

This is a funny one to find on the basement floor under something. Not quite a Dadley and not quite a butcher.
Clauss Shear Co/ Clauss/Fremont OHIO USA

Levine 2 has a Clauss Cutlery Co in Fremont OH 1887- present at the time of Levine 2.

Found this article about Clauss Cutlery: https://www.thenews-messenger.com/s...ade-its-home-in-fremont-in-1880s/65408875007/

 

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Found this article about Clauss Cutlery: https://www.thenews-messenger.com/s...ade-its-home-in-fremont-in-1880s/65408875007/

Thanks!
So I'm probably before 1910, when they became Clauss-Henckel. Though that post-1910 article doesn't name any knives among Clauss's products.

 

[tongueriver]

I think that pattern is usually marketed as a "duct knife," but it is often purchased as a "pig sticker," and used for that purpose, bleeding hogs.

 

[josha840]

Found this article about Clauss Cutlery: https://www.thenews-messenger.com/s...ade-its-home-in-fremont-in-1880s/65408875007/

Comparing to modern knives being sold, I’d say that looks like a sailor’s knife.

 

[tongueriver]

Most duct knives sold now have plastic handles, but they have been sold for decades with simple wooden handles like other butcher knives. Ontario made a few million of them. Here is one I found a pic' of on the great Google. Many pigs have gotten a fleeting glance at one of these.

 

[screened porch]

I was carrying this around this morning under the tie of my robe. Very unobtrusive; I kept thinking I must have put it down somewhere, but no.

With my other Oaxacans:

 

[tongueriver]

Good thing you got those before the tariff

 

[screened porch]

Good thing you got those before the tariff

Yeah.

 

[Travman]

 

[screened porch]

My Nieto criollo has really grown on me lately.

It's about 4 mm thick and flat-ground. 1.4116 steel.

 

[Horsewright]

 

[black mamba]

Dang, Dave, they don't get any more perfect than that one!

 

[echoscout]

That's a dandy of a Coyote

 

[HFinn]

Very hard competition between these two about "perfect pocket sized fixed blade" prize, of the knives I own of course. Helle is more compact, actually it would be a very nice knife for a girl/boy scout or adventurous woman. I modified the handle slightly with sandpaper and now it gives a comfortable 3,5 finger grip. The lanyard and bead give extra support. Casström has a longer handle, but needs a deeper pocket if you don't want the knife to show. Blade and edge length is the same, Helle's scandi grind is better with wood and the steel is better than Casström's. Casström wins when cutting foodstuff's.

 

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The Chinese are making belt sheathes for kitchen knives. This is their big one.

I've had this military chefs' knife wrapped in newspaper and plastic wrap for years.

 

[Horsewright]

Dang, Dave, they don't get any more perfect than that one!

That's a dandy of a Coyote

Thanks guys! Guess I’ve been lost in space. Just finding your kind comments now!

 

[hairblades]

Lucky Dog Knife Co - GaurdDog fixed blade with my GEC #81

 

[Horsewright]

And UPS lost this one while en-route to the customer:

I'm starting over.

 

[screened porch]

This Nieto having given up its sheath to a Mexican Bowie, I went looking for the Buck 120 sheath I knew had this Ypsilanti, MI-made knife in it. (The two guys I saw selling these didn't know the name of the maker.)
So anyway, the Ypsi knife is nicer than I remembered, so I had to order another sheath, which will work like a pouch sheath for the Nieto.

 

[Horsewright]