Excellent presentation boxed long discontinued CAS Paul Chen New Orleans Bowie. $ 195
Price includes book "New Orleans Cutlers" by Phil Bazer which features the original Pradel Bowie on the cover and 9 pages of information on the maker, this knife, and others.
Price is shipped insured Priority Mail to US States and Territories.
There are some minor hairline sratches on the satin finished blade and the blade does not fit into the sheath since the wooden liner has aged over the last ten years.
I will oil the carbon steel blade and the handle prior to shipping which will greatly improve the appearance. Great for Bowie collectors or as a gift for someone who loves old knives.
Not interested in trades but might consider a Bowie of equal quality with a 9 to 11 inch blade.
This is the original CAS Paul Chen Hanwei write up:
This knife replicates an existing original, made in the French Quarter of New Orleans by a cutler named Pradel. The knife is relatively compact and could well have been commissioned by a client with easy concealment in mind. The checkered buffalo horn grip and clean lines give this piece an outstanding appearance.
The Bowie Period in American History was a turbulent one. It was born on a sandbar on the Mississippi River near Natchez, Mississippi in 1827. A political duel became a free-for-all. James Bowie, who was an observer at the duel, was shot and stabbed through with a sword cane, but he managed to dispatch his major opponents with a Bowie knife, even though his wounds were so grave that his life hung by a thread for weeks afterwards. The infamous Sandbar Fight, as it was later called, took the imagination of the country by storm. Newspapers far and wide copied the stories from the Natchez papers and soon every man wanted a knife like Bowie’s - a Bowie knife. American cutlers (many of them surgical instrument makers) and Sheffield, England cutlers began to make Bowie knives to fill the market demand. The Bowie Period only lasted about forty years - from the Sandbar Fight to the end of the Civil War. When pistols became reliable and plentiful the size of the knife shrank. By the 1870s and 1880s, the Bowie knife was used as a hunting knife much more than as a primary defense arm.
The Bowie was made in a period of hand labor; the industrial revolution had not touched the cutlery trades. All the work on the old knives was by hand, with an artisan’s craft skills that were learned during a long apprenticeship to master forgers, grinders and cutlers.
The Historical Bowie Series from CAS Hanwei covers both Bowies made in different American States and Bowies made in Sheffield for the American market. Each piece in the series is crafted with a forged high-carbon steel blade, nickel silver fittings and natural grip materials, as were the originals. Each sheath is crafted in top-grain leather and a belt frog, where applicable, is included. Every effort has been made to replicate accurately the details of the original pieces, so as to provide heirloom-quality Bowies to the collector.
Made by Hanwei.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Key Features:
Historically accurate
High-carbon steel
Great for collectors
New Orleans Bowie
Made In China
SPECIFICATIONS
Overall: 12 ¼”
Handle Length: 4 ¾”
Weight: 10oz
Thickness at Guard: .180”
Specs will vary slightly
from piece to piece.
Price includes book "New Orleans Cutlers" by Phil Bazer which features the original Pradel Bowie on the cover and 9 pages of information on the maker, this knife, and others.
Price is shipped insured Priority Mail to US States and Territories.
There are some minor hairline sratches on the satin finished blade and the blade does not fit into the sheath since the wooden liner has aged over the last ten years.
I will oil the carbon steel blade and the handle prior to shipping which will greatly improve the appearance. Great for Bowie collectors or as a gift for someone who loves old knives.
Not interested in trades but might consider a Bowie of equal quality with a 9 to 11 inch blade.
This is the original CAS Paul Chen Hanwei write up:
This knife replicates an existing original, made in the French Quarter of New Orleans by a cutler named Pradel. The knife is relatively compact and could well have been commissioned by a client with easy concealment in mind. The checkered buffalo horn grip and clean lines give this piece an outstanding appearance.
The Bowie Period in American History was a turbulent one. It was born on a sandbar on the Mississippi River near Natchez, Mississippi in 1827. A political duel became a free-for-all. James Bowie, who was an observer at the duel, was shot and stabbed through with a sword cane, but he managed to dispatch his major opponents with a Bowie knife, even though his wounds were so grave that his life hung by a thread for weeks afterwards. The infamous Sandbar Fight, as it was later called, took the imagination of the country by storm. Newspapers far and wide copied the stories from the Natchez papers and soon every man wanted a knife like Bowie’s - a Bowie knife. American cutlers (many of them surgical instrument makers) and Sheffield, England cutlers began to make Bowie knives to fill the market demand. The Bowie Period only lasted about forty years - from the Sandbar Fight to the end of the Civil War. When pistols became reliable and plentiful the size of the knife shrank. By the 1870s and 1880s, the Bowie knife was used as a hunting knife much more than as a primary defense arm.
The Bowie was made in a period of hand labor; the industrial revolution had not touched the cutlery trades. All the work on the old knives was by hand, with an artisan’s craft skills that were learned during a long apprenticeship to master forgers, grinders and cutlers.
The Historical Bowie Series from CAS Hanwei covers both Bowies made in different American States and Bowies made in Sheffield for the American market. Each piece in the series is crafted with a forged high-carbon steel blade, nickel silver fittings and natural grip materials, as were the originals. Each sheath is crafted in top-grain leather and a belt frog, where applicable, is included. Every effort has been made to replicate accurately the details of the original pieces, so as to provide heirloom-quality Bowies to the collector.
Made by Hanwei.
PRODUCT DETAILS
Key Features:
Historically accurate
High-carbon steel
Great for collectors
New Orleans Bowie
Made In China
SPECIFICATIONS
Overall: 12 ¼”
Handle Length: 4 ¾”
Weight: 10oz
Thickness at Guard: .180”
Specs will vary slightly
from piece to piece.
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