Scottish Tool

My scottish grandfather had something very similar about 2 inches long and it is was a fruit knife. He used to cut fruit in his hand to eat.

Swiss Army Knife Mk.1...??? ... lol


Looks like something you would shuck oysters with.....
regards

Naaaa...Its a cut throat razor for someone who had really bad acne as a kid....
The bits that stick out are to get into the craters.

True

Gday Doug

Not a lino knife eh.

Cheers

Hi Doug,

Don't know what it is, but absolutely fabulous use of the timber as a background.

Regards,

Jim

G'day all;

I think its a leatherworking tool: useful for cutting long straight bits (reins, etc)

Dr Hook

This is a blodd letting knife (fleam). In those days people thought you had to release blood to cure some diseases. I have seen one that n=my grandmother had.

see wedsite below for a similar photo to yours

cheers

Fleam
19th century three blade fleam with buffalo horn handle. Chunky pocket knife with three thick blades, each with a small tomahawk-like extension. Blades fold into the buffalo horn case handle. One blade is marked 'Brown'. There is a space for a (missing) lancet.

Likely to be a veterinary fleam used in the nineteenth century for the treatment of horses. A human fleam is similar, but of slightly finer gauge blades (as seen within the phlebotomy collection of The Royal Society of Physicians). Wilf Lunn stated that the fleam case is made of buffalo horn and that the fleam is traditionally used with a 'bloodstick', a specialist wooden hammer.

Donated By: Mr Wilf Lunn

(1995:009)
http://www.thegarret.org.uk/collectionbloodletting.htm#1995009

Nowadays blood letting tools are called Governments

or should that be bloodsucking either or both take your pick.


LOL

A knife for peeling potatoes and removing the eyes!!!! Michael

Helped my grandfather castrate some piglets nearly 50 years ago and he used a knife identical, but only had 2 blades if my memory is correct.
I remember him saying his father bought it over from Germany when he migrated here . I understood it to be a pig castration knife.

Hope this helps Doug.

I cannot see the photo
are they still there ?
can you repost them so U can have a look ?