blade id needed

[coinshooter]

Can anyone identify the style name of this blade on a knife I recently purchased on ebay?
The closest I can find in the 4th K C Guide (page 46) is a saber spear but this blade does not have the flat top surfaces shown in the K C G.

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[jonet143]

looks like a clip blade. can you post a larger clear pic. can't see if it's sabre groung.

[coinshooter]

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Better? It's a Cattaraugus 5 inch closed, 2004, no model number and no blade lock. Blade is satin (?) finished

[BIGHEAD]

If it is a Catt,2004 I feel that it is a fake.IMHO

[jonet143]

flat grind clip, not a saber grind. reproduction? the original was full polished.

[coinshooter]

OPPS. My mistake. There was a Catt. sitting next to it when I wrote the question.
Tang is stamped A. G. Russell, 2004, Lowell AR, reverse is blank
I don't know about it being any kind of "clip" blade tho. The top edge is a smooth shallow continuous curve. All the clip blades shown on page 46 in the K C Guide have a distinct point on the top edge where the line of the edge changes direction.
It doesn't seem to match any blade in the guide exactly, at least none that I can find.
The picture is not distorted, the blade does get a little wider as it moves away from the tang and then tapers to the point. With the blade fully opened, edge down, if you lay a ruler across the front and back handle pins, the tip of the blade falls about 1/4 inch below the ruler edge.
It's the combination of the narrow tang end start to the blade, the wider middle portion and the continuous curve back that I can't find in the Guide. I even looked thru the picture sections trying to find a match. No luck

[gmusic]

Hummmmmmmmmm.............................

She's a humpback!

[philco]

The blade does not adhere completely to any of the traditional blade shapes. I think Jonet143 is close to the mark when he called it a clip blade, however it is not exactly a classic clip shape. You are correct in stating that a clip blade is straight along the back edge for about two thirds of its length before angling downward slightly to form a point with the edge rising from beneath. There are elements of the design that are more characteristic of a spear point blade, most particularly the widening of the blade as it sweeps outward from the tang. A classic spear blade would curve in more rapidly to a more rounded point than you knife's blade does. Yours has a more gradual taper out to the point and a resulting narrower tip.
I would say the blade shape shows influences of both the clip and spear blade shapes. The maker seems to have used a bit of "artistic liscense" in designing the blade.
If you must label it, why not call it a clip-spear hybrid?

Or it you prefer, take Gary's advice and call it a humpback!

[coinshooter]

I believe I like "humpback".
Thanks for the help from all

[2 speed]

Here is a scan from an A G Russell Catalog. A variation of the same knife.

[coinshooter]

Thanks. There is one on ebay right now, also a plain blade version like I purchased. The blade shape catches your eye right away.