United States / England
1850s
Steel blade, wood handle with brass rivets; TUO stamped on blade
Length 10 in. (25.4 cm)
Provenance: Private Texas collection
Sheffield trade knives were produced in large quantities in England for the North American fur trade and frontier market, with the TUO stamp identifying the blade as a product of the Sheffield cutlery industry exported to American traders and merchants. This example retains its original dark wood handle with brass rivets and a plain steel blade stamped TUO, in the utilitarian form typical of mid-nineteenth-century trade knives distributed across the American West and Plains. Private Texas collection provenance connects the piece to regional collecting of frontier material.
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United States / England
1850s
Steel blade, wood handle with brass rivets; TUO stamped on blade
Length 10 in. (25.4 cm)
Provenance: Private Texas collection
Sheffield trade knives were produced in large quantities in England for the North American fur trade and frontier market, with the TUO stamp identifying the blade as a product of the Sheffield cutlery industry exported to American traders and merchants. This example retains its original dark wood handle with brass rivets and a plain steel blade stamped TUO, in the utilitarian form typical of mid-nineteenth-century trade knives distributed across the American West and Plains. Private Texas collection provenance connects the piece to regional collecting of frontier material.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
