Strange Knife "What is it"

Don't have any answers for you about the knife, but I'm glad to see that the prices for slaughter goats is still holding steady :)

JB

For sectioning grapefruit ?

It is a Jewish ceremonial knife for doing circumcisions on twin boys, one of which is liked, the other is not liked. The sharp knife is used on the favorite. The serrated edge is used on the bad one.

Steve ;-)

Try medical/surgical instruments, historical. It looks a lot like something my Dad found in the late Doc Fisher's tool-kit. Doc was a real "sawbones" who practiced from around Civil War times into early CenturyXX.

Flash

Just a guess, but I suspect it is some sort of ferrier's tool, or something along those lines that might be used by a large animal veterinarian.

Jerry Foster

Y'know, I considerd that as a possibility earlier this morning, but discarded it as too unlikely.

It *DOES* look as though the top, serrated section is more like a spoon than a knife, and the curved lower blade would likely make quick work of the rind...

I used to help our ferrier and never saw a similar tool. He was a traditional ferrier. He even forged the shoes from bar stock. Karl

Jerry Foster wrote:

I wonder how many of us would be thrilled to get to watch the whole process?

Wes S

One. Next?

--Winston

It was interesting. He was trained at a traditional ferriers school In Virginia if I remember correctly. Karl

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I think...think..that its a "weavers" knife, used for cutting threads on a weaving mill. The serations on the top are used for aligning the threads as you set up the thread spools.

Gunner

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