Unmarked J Russell 'California Carver' Copy 9" Offset Carving Knife Carbon Steel Nickel Stag 1870s-1920s Steel Care Sakai Kikumori was started in Style:24cm Shallow

Unmarked J Russell 'California Carver' Copy 9" Offset Carving Knife Carbon Steel Nickel Stag 1870s 1920s Steel Care Sakai Kikumori was started in Style:24cm Shallow Sakai Kikumori was started in 1926 and draws on Sakai's 600 year history as the major center of traditional Japanese cutlery manufacturing Both the new old stock Sabatier Acier Fondu and Sabatier **** were found together with the same ferrule construction Marks are lost but it had the diamond etched markings as can be seen on other California carver listed at teh same time as this one 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