Can you identify this old knife. No markings
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 6:25 pm
I recently bought it on eBay
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Can you identify this old knife. No markings
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Re: Can you identify this old knife. No markings
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2025 9:14 pm
Deer foot folder made in Bohemia, Austria, and Germany circa early 1900s. Many manufacturers but many by A.W.Wadsworth of Austria. Their stamps were usually very light and easily worn.
Re: Can you identify this old knife. No markings
Posted: Sun Apr 27, 2025 7:30 pm
Here are my two "deer foot" folding pocket knives FOR COMPARISON.
Pictures #1 & #2. Deer foot with no fur left on it.
Pictures #3 & #4. Deer foot, normal looking.
Caption(s), if any, are on the BOTTOM of the corresponding picture(s).
Click on a picture to ENLARGE.
Re: Can you identify this old knife. No markings
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 5:48 am
Here are a few. They also made fixed blades.
Re: Can you identify this old knife. No markings
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 1:22 pm
Covers on the OP knife are wood? It also doesn’t appear to have a corkscrew either. Maybe a modified deer foot knife. 
Ken
Ken
Re: Can you identify this old knife. No markings
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 3:37 pm
I cannot magnify the picture but it appears that the fur covering the foot has either been removed or has fallen off; a common occurence on these knives. Not all have corkscrews or locking blades either. With all the hair removed, the dried skin resembles wood a lot.Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 1:22 pm Covers on the OP knife are wood? It also doesn’t appear to have a corkscrew either. Maybe a modified deer foot knife.
Ken
Re: Can you identify this old knife. No markings
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:11 pm
Ray, I enlarged it and enhanced it a little. Still looks like wood to me. Do not see any signs of a hoof. Did they stretch the fur over a wood base?
Here ya go.
Ken
Do not see any signs of a hoof. Did they stretch the fur over a wood base? Here ya go.
Ken
Re: Can you identify this old knife. No markings
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:33 pm
Ken: thanks for the enlargement! I checked the ones l have and under the fur and hoof is just bone. It is very thin and appears to be hollow under the thickest part and they show evidence of being glued as well as being pinned.Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Apr 28, 2025 9:11 pm Ray, I enlarged it and enhanced it a little. Still looks like wood to me.
Here ya go.
Ken
The enlarged pic almost looks like stag to me and they are definitely replacements. The area near the bolster is too wide and the pins look machine made.
Re: Can you identify this old knife. No markings
Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2025 10:08 pm
Better picture, thanks for the replies. It has no fur, it is wood with brass nails
Re: Can you identify this old knife. No markings
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 1:48 pm
Hi! I don't post here much but its a good source for info.
I also have a Wadsworth import knife.
Im curious as to the date when the nickle silver stag head parts were used.
Like the knife in the OP,
I replaced the very badly damaged handle with walnut scales.
I think it was found by metal detector as the blade and entire knife was severly water damaged. Single locking blade and not cork screw.
I also have a Wadsworth import knife.
Im curious as to the date when the nickle silver stag head parts were used.
Like the knife in the OP,
I replaced the very badly damaged handle with walnut scales.
I think it was found by metal detector as the blade and entire knife was severly water damaged. Single locking blade and not cork screw.
Re: Can you identify this old knife. No markings
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2025 6:43 pm
Cool old knife and great we work on the handle.JonTinkerson wrote: ↑Mon Nov 03, 2025 1:48 pm Hi! I don't post here much but its a good source for info.
I also have a Wadsworth import knife.
Im curious as to the date when the nickle silver stag head parts were used.
Like the knife in the OP,
I replaced the very badly damaged handle with walnut scales.
I think it was found by metal detector as the blade and entire knife was severly water damaged. Single locking blade and not cork screw.