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I. Wilson was a famous knife company in Sheffield, England, during the 19th Century. They made knives, packed them several gross to a wooden keg and shipped them to America. The mountain men and fur trappers carried them and also used them as trade knives to the Indians. They were used in hundreds of thousands of kitchens as butcher knives.

The one at the top of the picture is an original I. Wilson, and according to my mother, was used by her, her mother, her grandmother, and great grandmother. It is about 140 or 150 years old. Still cuts as well as when it was new, so long ago.

The lower butcher knife is about 75 years old and my father bought it for our kitchen, It was from John C. Primble Co. I've used it on many a deer and elk camp.







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