Since posting this photo the first time yesterday, I googled Briddell and got some information. Charles D. Briddell was a blacksmith/knifemaker near Crisfield, Maryland who served the watermen and boatmen on Chesapeake Bay in the late 1800s. ~1910, he bought a building in downtown Crisfield and opened a cutlery factory employing a good number of locals. Production was at the highest levels during WWII when he received a special award from the US Navy for excellence. After the War, his son sold the factory to Carvel Hall Cutlery.

Chicken killing, splitting winter squash? Found this at the flea market this past weekend. Heavy sucker feels like a couple pounds, near a hatchet. Don't know anything about the maker.

Very nice!! Weathered elk would be dandy on that