Originally Posted by rockinbbar
Originally Posted by kaywoodie
Trade (butchers or scalpers if you prefer) were imported to this country literally by the 10 gallon keg! The english knives even sported exotic wooden handles like cocobolo early on!!

Ononostota war chief of the Cherokee. 1775-1780.

(One of my fav pics!)

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I bet he'd cut your gizzard out with that knife, too! grin


Ononostota; I have heard he fenced his garden with the femurs of British Redcoats.

I have a knife much like that, built as a replica of the genre.

And IIRC cocobolo wood was stuffed as filler into the empty spaces around the main cargo in the holds of merchant ships returning to England from Belize, cheap enough to use on mass-produced trade knives.

The working conditions in Sheffield where they cranked em out en mass bad enough that Friedrich Engels even wrote his first book about them, catching the attention of his buddy Karl Marx.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744