Do You Recognise This Knife

[mumscuppa]

Hi, We bought this at a carboot sale this morning. Does anyone know its purpose please ? T.I.A


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[woofgang]

How big is it?

[Prudie]

Can't really tell the size but looks like a bone handled bread-knife

[B00]

Yes, it's called Dave.


(sorry)

[Prudie]

LOL B00- better than 'no officer, never seen it before in my life'

[mumscuppa]

Hi its about 20 cm long , one side has a hallmark and the other side has a fancy decorative scrolling pattern.

[sunny-dave]

OI !!

Looks like an old bread knife to me.

[lardhelmet]

I've got one just like it in my kitchen drawer and I've always used it to slice bread. Think it was my mum's once upon a time.

[boxtops]

It's very like my mother's old family breadknife. It it's the same as theirs, don't put it in the dishwasher or in the washing up - the handle's bone or ivory (not that you would with silver, anyway), but the handle dries out and cracks if it keeps being submerged in water.

[Chipchopper]

I'm thinking that it could be a 'fish scaler'

[RATTER15]

It doesn't look like a bread knife to me, it appears to be aggressively serrated on the top edge and a straight cutting edge, so maybe for de-scaling fish as chipchopper suggested

[melv16]

Boo.. It could be a fish wife:-)

[stuey]

I would say that it is, as others have said, a bread knife The teeth are set to cut; it come to a point so as to pierce the bread; and the other plain side is probably to spread the butter. The teeth of a fish-scaler are not set to "saw".