Stag Saturday - Let's See Some Traditional Stag!

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Will Power said:
An interesting question yes.

Levine has a page on Rase Knives or Timber Scribers and as Charlie rightly points out was used in timber trades or for marking barrels, crates. Levine notes that in the c19th nearly every commodity was shipped in wooden containers so a marking tool was an essential part of commerce. The blade works with a pull stroke and carpenters used them as did ship wrights in the days of wood.

Levine says that Rase knives were mosly just equipped with the scriber blade that folds away safely into a recess in the handle but "some have an ordinary spear or clip blade as well" There were also fixed one and some made with bronze or brass handles for saltwater use.

The one shown has the Lamb Foot blade so you can infer it is English not American, tang stamps if any, will of course reveal more. The quality of Stag, shield, Rat-Tail all point to an expensive and top quality knife- something for a rich merchant or land-owner not just an everyday knockabout tool. But the inclusion of a pedestrian LF as the blade may be rather unusual, but who knows what might have been ordered from the factory or on the whim of a cutler? Just don't know. Exceptional looker though and very glad to see such an unusual piece.
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I can't make out the tang stamp. As you said, it wasn't intended to be a knockabout tool, the fact that it has a shield sets it apart from the run of the mill Lambsfoot, very few were graced with a shield. Someone had put together a small collection of 2 bladed scribes, I bought the Lambsfoot for myself, a sheepsfoot that I bought and traded to a friend, and one more Lockwood that I left behind. The last picture is of the group that I traded to a friend for a handful of Lambsfoot knives which are still in transit. 20251101_090036.jpgIMG_0362.jpgFullSizeR(12).jpg20251022_114745.jpg
 
rockman0 said:
I can't make out the tang stamp. As you said, it wasn't intended to be a knockabout tool, the fact that it has a shield sets it apart from the run of the mill Lambsfoot, very few were graced with a shield. Someone had put together a small collection of 2 bladed scribes, I bought the Lambsfoot for myself, a sheepsfoot that I bought and traded to a friend, and one more Lockwood that I left behind. The last picture is of the group that I traded to a friend for a handful of Lambsfoot knives which are still in transit. View attachment 3013580View attachment 3013581View attachment 3013592View attachment 3013593
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Those are amazing 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
 
My only stag knife this week is one of the two stag models I carried last week. Cracker Jack, my Ashley's Choice stag lambsfoot, was Lambsfoot of the Week for me a week ago, and this week, it moved categories and serves as my Stag/Horn Knife of the Week. Here are pics of both sides soon after I got it in Fall 2018:
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(An interesting-to-me feature of the 7-year-old photos is that it shows wisteria starting to spread over the east end of the on-edge parallel 2x8s suspended over the patio behind our house. As the years passed, the wisteria completely covered those "rafters" to form a shady arbor. But they also spread past the west end of the structure and jumped into the branches of an oak tree, they became entangled with boxwood bushes growing on the south edge of the patio, they climbed up the brick wall of the house onto the roof, and they spread east along the base of the wall all the way to the front of the house. Each growing season was a battle to keep the wisteria away from where we didn't want it. This week, my wife decided she didn't want it any more, so we've been tearing it out.)

- GT
 
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