Handmade hunting knife with corner tang blade
Description
Automatic translation from Danish.
Handmade hunting knife, the blade a so-called corner tang blade, which is a forged copy of a grave-found knife from the Iron Age (the original at Moesgaard Museum), of Böhler 720 steel, oil-hardened and tempered to 58 HCR, signed A. Handle of stabilized elm knot, front grip of polished buffalo horn, inlay of bronze and black fiberboard. With side-stitched scabbard of 2 mm vegetable tanned full grain leather dyed with red-brown grain ink, sewn with 5/18 waxed flax thread, wet-formed and treated with leather hardener. Blade length 87 mm. Total length 206 mm. Appears unused.