Liquidation Sale J Russell Green River Works 14" Bullnose Carbon Steel ~1890s-1920 Best Choice [jHTDQZna]

Carbon steel J Russell Green River Works 14" bullnose butcher knife with hand forged balde and 5 pinned rose wood handle. If you are named Choc this has been pre-personalized for you. 

This knife had been sharpened in enough to have a thick blade behind the edge and had some unsightly fugs from some dumb bench grinder sharpening on the sides of the blade which have been mostly removed. It is however ready to get back to work with a nice convex faced sharp edged blade that is nice and straight. 

Russell Green River Works was the first American knife-maker to look to aggressively meet the new and growing American cutlery market which was being met with English imports from Sheffield. In the pre-Civil War time period of the 1830s to 1860 Sheffield engaged in a protracted trade war with the new American knife makers, dumping underpriced knives on the American market in an effort to bankrupt companies such as J Russell, Lamson and Goodnow, and Harrington Cutlery. Russell's answer to this was to offer wages double that being available in Sheffield and to incorporate immigrant Sheffield skilled labor into his process. 

14" blade, 19.75" overall length 13.25 oz