J Russell 'California Carver' Copy 9" Offset Carving Knife Carbon Steel Nickel Stag 1870s-1920s Isamitsu two stainless bolsters and olive Vintage Wusthof 9

J Russell 'California Carver' Copy 9" Offset Carving Knife Carbon Steel Nickel Stag 1870s 1920s Isamitsu two stainless bolsters and olive Vintage Wusthof 9 two stainless bolsters and olive handle scales With humor This knife is done in the style of San Francisco made knives from the 1860s to turn of the century which became popular after the transcontinental railroad connected San Francisco to the East Coast in the 1870s Imitations of the iconic offset carving knife with a hump on the spine and carving fork and sharpening steels with antennae like guards cropped up from makers as far away as Sheffield and Germany in the later 19th century as the copiers were copied themselves