Hunting & Bowie Knives from British India - A Discovery!

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@andreweden9405
@andreweden9405 5 жыл бұрын
Matt, as a Bowie knife enthusiast myself, I have to share this article with you, that is, if you're not already familiar with it. I was directed to it some time ago by a pretty well respected bladesmith from Texas. It covers the knife duels that made Bowie a legend in his own lifetime, including the infamous "Sandbar Fight" of course. I also think you'll be surprised to see what the very earliest American Bowie knives looked like in terms of overall design. While there were plenty of "homespun" type knives that can broadly be categorized as Bowies, there were also blades that represent some of the finest craftsmanship that has ever been seen! I particularly like the Schively/Perkins Bowie, with its exquisite, form-fitting, sterling silver sheath. Many of these first, bespoke American Bowies were made by medical instrument makers, so their fit, finish, and frankly, their precision, is reflected by this. They are true things of beauty! www.sonsofdewittcolony.org//adp/history/bios/bowie/knife_like_bowies.html I would also greatly appreciate it if you could talk about tomahawks, and the Sheffield-made trade/butcher knives sometime! The knives that were so popular, and really indispensable on the early American frontier! Also, like the knives, nearly all of the earliest tomahawks came from England or France.
@sethmays8309
@sethmays8309 5 жыл бұрын
Also don't forget the Bowies that are attributed to James Black a supposed maker of one of the iterations of Jim Bowie's famous knife.
@althesmith
@althesmith 4 жыл бұрын
In my copy of "Edged Weapons" by Wilkinson there's an Indian made Bowie with "Austin" stamped above another name, "Trichinopoly", very similar guard and buttcap. "Trichinopoly" probably refers to the district of India.
@inregionecaecorum
@inregionecaecorum 5 жыл бұрын
That Kukri shaped thing is an absolute beast of a knife.
@bikkichettri5554
@bikkichettri5554 5 жыл бұрын
It's Delicated to Lord Shiva
@bikkichettri5554
@bikkichettri5554 5 жыл бұрын
Yes it stoped Whits to enter Himalayas
@beardedbjorn5520
@beardedbjorn5520 5 жыл бұрын
That Ivory is in fantastic condition Matt. Ivory shrinks as it ages and your handle seems to be perfectly fitting. Ivory shrinkage was a big issue during the 19th century Ivory trade (mainly African). So it seems that either your knife has been stored in perfect conditions (humid enough to negate shrinkage, yet not enough to cause tarnish). Or more likely, they used aged Ivory which would have cost a fortune.
@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat
@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat 5 жыл бұрын
I hate that ivory comes from endangered animals. It just looks so cool but I don't want to support killing elephants and rhinos and similar animals.
@davidpnewton
@davidpnewton 5 жыл бұрын
Antique ivory does not support killing endangered animals. The moves to ban the sale of antique ivory are pretty much complete gesture politics which won't do a thing to stop poaching.
@beardedbjorn5520
@beardedbjorn5520 5 жыл бұрын
@@davidpnewton you are absolutely right. It is virtue signalling, nothing else.
@wendigo1619
@wendigo1619 5 жыл бұрын
@@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat they werent endangered at the time that knife was made
@deadhorse1391
@deadhorse1391 5 жыл бұрын
Bearded Bjorn the ivory on this knife looks to me to be walrus ivory which was very commonly used on knives
@penttikoivuniemi2146
@penttikoivuniemi2146 5 жыл бұрын
The blade on the knife (?) you showed at the end was such a plot-twist that I actually burst out laughing.
@scholagladiatoria
@scholagladiatoria 5 жыл бұрын
Hahah
@daeholm
@daeholm 5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful. More knife content please.
@Venzina1
@Venzina1 5 жыл бұрын
you found a lead in Leeds.... how fortuitous!
@masonperry9178
@masonperry9178 5 жыл бұрын
Hope this subject matter is expanded upon. It's a fascinating era of blade-making and an interesting subsection thereof
@50StichesSteel
@50StichesSteel 5 жыл бұрын
Its seems the popular opinion is that Jim Bowie actually used a knife more similar to the one you're holding at the fight that made him famous "Sandbar" than the Bowie knife shape we know today. A blade shape that resembles a triangle rather than a "Texas" clip point. That knife shape became popular about the time of the Alamo. So possibly Jim changed knives to that shape we know today since he spent alot of time in Texas as kind of a hired mercenary of sorts. Jim Bowies brother is the one that described his knife shape with givin dimensions something like you're holding now with "no curve"
@John..18
@John..18 5 жыл бұрын
Hi, if you Google Crowell Barker Competition knife, you will see almost exactly the knife that Rezin describes having made, (as a hunting knife) which he later gave to his brother, and which was almost certainly the one, used on the sandbar ..
@50StichesSteel
@50StichesSteel 5 жыл бұрын
@@John..18 Appreciate the tip
@matthewcochran3325
@matthewcochran3325 3 жыл бұрын
Matt, I'm from Miss'sippi (about 75 miles from where the Sandbar fight took place) and all we have is the blues, rock and roll, and Bowie knives. Don't take the knife away from us! Keep up the good work, buddy.
@Duron0
@Duron0 5 жыл бұрын
A video without "It depends..." is not a video.
@fattiger6957
@fattiger6957 5 жыл бұрын
Matt Easton (one of the preeminent authorities on historical western fighting, expert in antique weaponry, really smart guy): "Butt cap *snickers*"
@PomaiKajiyama
@PomaiKajiyama 5 жыл бұрын
Makes sense that they are considered Confederate knives in the US, remember that the Confederacy was primarily armed by British arms since they lacked the capability of the Union, so I could see the few examples that made it to America being primarily Confederate soldiers.
@mtgAzim
@mtgAzim 5 жыл бұрын
wow, my eyes are getting bad. I was about to write a comment saying that the museum card said "Ausun" but I first checked the other comments and no one else was pointing that out, and then I used the windows magnifier at %300 magnification before I could make out Austin...
@57WillysCJ
@57WillysCJ 5 жыл бұрын
The large blade hunting knives and even hunting swords are an interesting subject. The Bowie certainly evolved even during Rezin Bowie's life. I think it was a type of Facon. By the mid 1840s any big bladed knife became a Bowie as a generic term. As it was originally shaped like a Spanish hunting knife and then morphed in to the huge variety of today.
@Diebulfrog79
@Diebulfrog79 5 жыл бұрын
Try the Dutch lead. Austen was a Dutch company that came to England after the wars.
@50StichesSteel
@50StichesSteel 5 жыл бұрын
These are the type of knives I like to call "finish" knives..It's not mainly for self defense but absolutely could be used for it. It's to finish the game you are hunting. If you use dogs for boars or pigs, you don't want to shoot your highly trained dogs so you walk up while the dogs have the animal pinned and quickly dispatch of them through the lungs and heart or the throat depending on the dogs location..Same if you only managed to wound any other animal with your firearm. Some "gut or hip" shots can take a long time to kill an animal especially big predators.
@50StichesSteel
@50StichesSteel 5 жыл бұрын
@Joe Blow What a meat eater? Yes...Also I have hunted humans as well...Neither for sport. One for meat, the other because they are a type of evil you have never seen before...Actually I never hunted pig personally but respect the people that do.. These wild animals could about take your thigh muscle off in one swipe, multiple like rats, and destroy farm lands, yes EVEN the food you choose to eat from the sound of it..Take care sir lol
@nicksande6880
@nicksande6880 5 жыл бұрын
Bait or not. That is here the question...
@tikkidaddy
@tikkidaddy 5 жыл бұрын
@@50StichesSteel I love how these disturbed nature enthusiasts who trip head over heels to try to create such a humanized view of wild animals seem to forget how absolutely inhuman and unemotional they really are until they get eaten alive...Like Timothy Tredwell here in the US. Perfect Example is very large pythons. While they are rarely able to eat humans there are many verified incidents confirming the fact that they can and do kill humans. I love snakes. But they don't love you...they just are. And they are interested in killing and eating to survive. That kind of pure predatory response is so alien to the current nature lovers mindset that they often screw up. Steve Irwin used to say that if a member of his staff was bitten by a snake that it was the humans fault. That as a human you should understand the true nature of the animal you dealt with and protect yourself accordingly.
@theeddorian
@theeddorian 5 жыл бұрын
@Joe Blow There are places around the world, including California, where, if you don't eat the pigs, they eat your kids. Accidentally walk between a black bear and her cubs and you might not even live to regret it. The point in hunting is to be quick and as merciful as possible. No cougar or other big predator would disagree, though, since none uses purpose designed weapons, they can't be either as quick or as merciful as a human hunter can be.
@MtnTow
@MtnTow 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, i prefer to finish game as quickly and humanely as possible. I know anyone watching would think im a monster but thats ok. Animal isnt suffering needlessly.
@Scott-qq9jd
@Scott-qq9jd 5 жыл бұрын
Since you mentioned Confederate Bowies, the stereotypical Confederate Bowie had a few distinctive characteristics. It did have the ordinary clipped point of a stereotypical Bowie, but the real noteworthy features are that they have a D-guard, and they tend to be very large, with blades of at least 16 inches. A friend tells me that they tend to be very heavy and cumbersome, a common characteristic of large American blades of the era.
@kasnitch
@kasnitch 5 жыл бұрын
that last blade should compete on 'Knife or Die' . that is a beast .
@simonbill1510
@simonbill1510 5 жыл бұрын
I think I heard or read somewhere that Wostenholme of Sheffield had some sort of a commercial relationship with Jim Bowie a bit like sport sponsorship. He gave Bowie Bowie knives to give away, and some are still in circulation described as Bowie's 'original' Bowie knife.
@undoreality2802
@undoreality2802 5 жыл бұрын
They were probably called confederate Bowie knives because the confederate army had to import most of its weapons.
@simonferrer
@simonferrer 5 жыл бұрын
That and small scale domestic production within the borders of the CSA.
@mattisenberger4042
@mattisenberger4042 2 жыл бұрын
Yes a good part of their equipment. But hardly all. Knives were more hand forged in the south. No money to buy fancy knives from England. The Union actually used more imported weapons than the south in reality. They had money to buy whatever. South..not so much. Learn history. Both sides imported equipment. But the south had to lean towards making their gear and guns more than importing them. Or take it off dead enemy. No you know why the south lost that war. And that also is a historical fact.
@timothyissler3815
@timothyissler3815 5 жыл бұрын
I want that kukuri-type knife now.
@sameerthakur720
@sameerthakur720 5 жыл бұрын
I have a cutlery knife with the same hilt as the first one. It's made in Sheffield too. My Grandfather bought a set, in his days.
@albinoasesino
@albinoasesino 5 жыл бұрын
Bowie Knives video? Someone must be really excited!
@robertyoung1317
@robertyoung1317 5 жыл бұрын
Great video Matt. Will be researching Austin knives a bit and I shall let yoy know if I find anything interesting. Cheers Matt!
@John..18
@John..18 5 жыл бұрын
Great video, Matt, if you Google, Crowell Barker Competition knife, you will see almost exactly what Rezin describes having made as a hunting knife, and later gave to his brother, and which was almost certainly the one Jim used on the sandbar, (just fyi)
@rockinbobokkin7831
@rockinbobokkin7831 5 жыл бұрын
The Bowie Knife is credited historically as an American knife because it was created by Rezin P. Bowie in Arkansas, USA in 1830 for his brother Jim Bowie. Mass production could have been handled by the British in those days, it is an American invention. It was made famous by the legendary story of Jim Bowie and his death at the American Alamo. His death made him famous across our country, and owning the knife style favored by him made the design intensely popular. BOWIE KNIFE: It's maker and famous bearer are literally the name of the knife.
@leemcgann6470
@leemcgann6470 5 жыл бұрын
Where it was made isn’t really the big question to me... The big question is- Who & or where was the Bowie created? Very good video as always! Love the Bowie!
@shellfaith8432
@shellfaith8432 5 жыл бұрын
The later bowie fighting knife with sharpen clip y crusadas was created in old Washington arkansas for James Bowie after breaking the original knife his brother Rezin Bowie gave him. There's a museum in old Washington arkansas with period blades y firearms on display. Mexican bowies y Texican bowies were clip point crusada knives with sharp clip for deep gashing wounds, thick spine for parties y crusadas for trapping y disarming. During war between Texicans y Mexico these larger bowies were carried as alternative to a saber by infantrymen y irregulars. Before James Black's design Jim Bowie carried knives common to the period resembling today's Chef knife or Argentinian-Uruguayan gaucho Criollo knife. Later designs modeled after Mr Black's design with sharpened back clip y crusadas was commonly used with clip y spine down & mainblade facing up. The spine used to deflect incoming blades, the clip used to deliver deep maiming karambit like gashes and the thrust to finish a man. The later bowie knife having a sharpened back clip made it a double edged weapon. Its popularity y lethality in Texas duels y fights culminated in its being illegal to carry in Texas, along with other double edge knives y hawk bill-hook bill blades. Til just last year. They could be owned but not carried. A study of Texas criminal case law renders much history to the post James Black period bowie knife design usage in duels y fights.
@beardedbjorn5520
@beardedbjorn5520 5 жыл бұрын
5:16 very much along the guise of the “Arkansas Toothpick” design. Perhaps that’s what the “Confederate” Bowie’s referenced. Since they did import the majority of their arms, and they tended to prefer the toothpick style in the south-eastern states of the Confederacy. Just a thought.
@belyayevsfox4753
@belyayevsfox4753 5 жыл бұрын
You should try fencing with a saber and Bowie knife to see how it works. It may not have been taught in manuals, but it is historically possible.
@scholagladiatoria
@scholagladiatoria 5 жыл бұрын
I actually have tried it a few times. The Bowie does not make a good left-hand dagger by itself unless you increase the size of the guard. But if you just fight with the sabre as normal and keep the knife in the left hand then some opportunities to use it can come up.
@belyayevsfox4753
@belyayevsfox4753 5 жыл бұрын
I'm also curious as to how useful side sword and rapier techniques are to using the schiavona. There haven't been any manuals discovered for it, unlike with British basket-hilted swords, but there clearly had to be a method for using the schiavona that fit in with Italian fencing traditions.
@scholagladiatoria
@scholagladiatoria 5 жыл бұрын
See Viggiani, or basically any of the Bolognese sources. It's basically a sidesword.
@belyayevsfox4753
@belyayevsfox4753 5 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking more along the lines of Di Grassi or Saviolo, but Bolognese works fine too.
@MtnTow
@MtnTow 5 жыл бұрын
I thought Matt had a video of exactly that?
@deniscleaver7544
@deniscleaver7544 2 жыл бұрын
Extremely interesting, thanks. Bowie knives are a study in cutlery which defies all others. Far too many of them have been made in the last two centuries by makers here, there and everywhere, The Sheffield knife makers guild has produced what I consider the majority of available historically accurate, imported Bowies worldwide. The American market doesn't even come close to that amount, but makes them a far more rarity for collectors. So, my final words are "caveat emptor"
@matthewzito6130
@matthewzito6130 5 жыл бұрын
Large knives are also used for hunting boar with catch dogs. As the name suggests the dogs are used to catch and hold the boar long enough for the hunter to move in and stab the boar with a boar spear or hunting knife. This is obviously dangerous for the dogs and the hunter, but it's still relatively common in some places.
@SirKaldar
@SirKaldar 5 жыл бұрын
It's somewhat common in the north of Queensland.
@matthewzito6130
@matthewzito6130 5 жыл бұрын
@@SirKaldar - It's also practiced in the southern USA and parts of Latin America. The Argentine Dogo (a dog breed from Argentina) was created for this specific purpose.
@rushedandlost
@rushedandlost 2 жыл бұрын
This video was VERY interesting. Thank You.
@raphlvlogs271
@raphlvlogs271 5 жыл бұрын
Weapons similar to the bowie knife have been around since the early medieval era.
@paullytle246
@paullytle246 5 жыл бұрын
Probably even earlier
@snakeoveer1046
@snakeoveer1046 5 жыл бұрын
A seax is a bowie
@wendigo1619
@wendigo1619 5 жыл бұрын
@@snakeoveer1046 the seax is my personal hunting knife, have to say its ballanced different beefier blade dezined to cut
@AllenLinnenJr
@AllenLinnenJr 5 жыл бұрын
In Spain, a Bowie knife or any similar hunting knife is called a 'cuchillo de remate.' Literally, re-killing knife. Their primary function is to finish killing a shot animal.
@williamarthur4801
@williamarthur4801 2 жыл бұрын
I owned an Indian hunting knife, it had some beautiful scroll work on the but and a fearsome spear point blade. I always regret giving it away.
@futurerandomness1620
@futurerandomness1620 5 жыл бұрын
Rewatch this video with friends, every time Matt says "now" with emphasis take a shot. Every time he says "but" with emphasis make it a double!
@GilgameshEthics
@GilgameshEthics 5 жыл бұрын
LOVE the subject matter
@chrisbasarab2446
@chrisbasarab2446 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, thank you, Matt! When I heard you say India I was thinking kukri, though I must admit that Austin hunting dagger looks just perfect. Speaking of kukri, will you be making a video about some of the most storied like blades, such as kukri, sica, romphaia and falx?
@iainmclean1757
@iainmclean1757 5 жыл бұрын
Austin could be the trademark of Austin and Dodson. After 1876 they used a mark that was an A inside a D. But the company started in 1835. The book Trademarks on Base-Metal Tableware by Eileen Woodhead lists Austin as a trademark for Austin Dodson (if I am reading this right). The link below is for the book. sha.org/assets/documents/Trademarks%20on%20Base-Metal%20Tableware.pdf
@paulmcdermott4363
@paulmcdermott4363 5 жыл бұрын
Was watching a random show on a random channel and not really paying much mind but then I heard a voice and looked up and sorry Matt I recognised your yard before you
@masivatak
@masivatak 5 жыл бұрын
Fascinating
@lapetite6452
@lapetite6452 5 жыл бұрын
Can be a early Bowie Knife from Austin Powers
@andrewshute9761
@andrewshute9761 5 жыл бұрын
Or Jane Austin maybe
@Sophocles13
@Sophocles13 2 жыл бұрын
holy crap I want that second kukuri-ish blade. That thing is gorgeous and looks like it could cleave a redwood in half...
@OdachiForge
@OdachiForge 5 жыл бұрын
Awesome video Matt! Still haven’t finished it but I’m sure it is!
@simoneriksson8329
@simoneriksson8329 5 жыл бұрын
True, I always like Matts videos when I start watching them.
@icfubar9150
@icfubar9150 5 жыл бұрын
As wild high octane speculation I wonder if this manufacturer of objects in steel later went on to produce objects in steel known as the Austin motor car?
@carebear8762
@carebear8762 5 жыл бұрын
Tell us of your journey to the Wall in the North...
@carebear8762
@carebear8762 5 жыл бұрын
@Bill Whittaker Ironically, just got back from 3 nights up on the North Slope of Alaska. Fortuantely, I was working inside with a 24 hour chow hall. Winter stayed outside.
@jws5984
@jws5984 5 жыл бұрын
Hey Matt how did you score the Superdry sponsorship?
@scholagladiatoria
@scholagladiatoria 5 жыл бұрын
I slept my way to the top.
@rassulrakhimov9007
@rassulrakhimov9007 5 жыл бұрын
Hi Matt, I am interested in what use do you put your Bowie knife to in the every day house routine? Is it any good in the kitchen?
@RagPlaysGames
@RagPlaysGames 5 жыл бұрын
"Ivory Dealer Matt" is at it again! ;P
@RagPlaysGames
@RagPlaysGames 5 жыл бұрын
@Colin Cleveland His grip is ivory, his sheath is ivory, even his camera is ivory!
@TheSaneHatter
@TheSaneHatter 5 ай бұрын
Coming at you FROM Austin, Texas, I have to say that I've heard of weapons like these before. Back in the 90s, when I was reading Ken Warner's "Knives" series every year, I remember an article on "London Hunting Knives," which were very much along the same lines: stout, double-edged hunting weapons almost like short swords, often broadly similar to a gladius, . . . and typically made by London's *surgical-instrument makers* (or sometimes, a swordmaker like Wilkinson). One has to wonder where the boundary between those knives and these can be drawn, but more importantly, that fact makes me wonder if it's a clue as to who "Austin" was. Could the company have been a London-based scalpel-maker?
@theadministrator2641
@theadministrator2641 5 жыл бұрын
They say that Rezin bowie ( Jim Bowie's elder brother) was charged upon by a bull whilst he was sorting his business in one of his plantations . Gormless and somewhat offguard during the attack from the miffed bovine he attempted to stab it's skull however it was gammy and yielded no conclusive result , it was a spawny that he survived with bits and bobs of minute wounds and scratches and thus his search for a more "adept" knife began he filed down old iron blades or so and came up with the first bowie ...it was of the musso style with a brass blade catcher on it's spine and so on , anyroad he gifted one such specimen to his brother Jim Bowie who used it in the now infamous sandbar fight on the Mississippi coast...and thus the legend began. As for the anglo Indian models cossipore arms and shell factory used to bung out specific models of bowie knives from throughout the 19th to the late 20th century in Calcutta the then capital of the British Raj . Alongside other lesser known knife types like the Wilkinson Shakespeare hunting knife it was in high demand as a defensive close quarter weapon to survive in the untamed land of colonial Calcutta. Fun fact cossipore arms and shell company still produces them and they are equally popular today for defensive purposes that many a joe blogg has on his person including me . Ta for this wicked video it's brill . 👍🏻
@simoneriksson8329
@simoneriksson8329 5 жыл бұрын
Thats a beautiful dagger
@Hissatsu5
@Hissatsu5 5 жыл бұрын
I am very interested is this subject!
@AdamOwenBrowning
@AdamOwenBrowning Ай бұрын
These make my American-made bowies feel lonely, how ever did I not learn that us Brits favoured these blades for a time? Alas, you didn't write an article on these from what I can find - else I'd be reading it Has certainly turned my attention towards these larger British "large high-status hunting daggers" that we used across the colonies...
@hanssharma3383
@hanssharma3383 5 жыл бұрын
Hi, Check out the Shakespeare hunting knife, victorian, Used in india, sometimes people ran down prey on foot. It's said ..and used the knife as the main weapon . Perhaps something Richard Burton would have got up to.hope that helps. Grüsse from Switzerland.
@gettinhawd2312
@gettinhawd2312 5 жыл бұрын
give a breakdown of m1 medieval and battle of the nations
@Mythicalmage
@Mythicalmage 5 жыл бұрын
The hilt on that monster you showed at the end almost looks like it has tomoe for quillons.
@jacobstaten2366
@jacobstaten2366 5 жыл бұрын
The Kukri one would be better with a full on knuckle gaurd, but it's still a massive improvement on the regular kukri style.
@tstodgell
@tstodgell 5 жыл бұрын
Wonderful video! As for how to pronounce "Bowie," well, it depends...
@viridisxiv766
@viridisxiv766 5 жыл бұрын
ill take interesting over beautiful everytime, indeed, that which is interesting carries a beauty all its own.
@ronalddunne3413
@ronalddunne3413 5 жыл бұрын
Beautiful grip on the velvet-sheathed bowie! Wondering if the grip on that knife isn't sambar stag, polished down.. I have several and they look a lot like ivory but are much harder and stronger.. Nice knife either way! -Dun
@ariyoiansky291
@ariyoiansky291 5 жыл бұрын
That is a badass dagger
@MrGabrielJude
@MrGabrielJude 5 жыл бұрын
Haha when I saw the handle of the knife at the end, my first thought was, “Hm, reminds me of a Kukhri handle” 😆
@mtgAzim
@mtgAzim 5 жыл бұрын
+1 for using "troll" in its previous context
@michelenicolarizzo2304
@michelenicolarizzo2304 5 жыл бұрын
I find his verbose exposition calming, mainly when he is talking about antiques and not fencing's bloody consequences (sorry). Plus, if you ever try to restore something managing to maintain all the original parts you will feel a special satisfaction. It requires you to have a keen eye and some knowledge about materials. It is a way to travel in time
@germanolivares7072
@germanolivares7072 5 жыл бұрын
Bowie knives are not just an American thing, they were very common in Mexico before the Texan Independence and also after that, the only difference being the mexican versions are a little bit more pointed and sometimes they have D guards.
@sharpsholdier
@sharpsholdier 5 жыл бұрын
at the begining of your video, you are holding a gorgeous, awesome-looking Sheffield Bowie knife....with an elegant cutlery style handle....however, i have the impression these are no longer being made in the U.K....am i wrong??? this is only so sad, these are wonderful Bowie knives....if only someone could start making them in the U.K, with decent 10" or even better, 11" blades , with these stylish handles and nice inside the waistband sheaths, with nice "frog" studs......were has all the British craftmanship gone, Gentlemen.....????????
@stephengent9974
@stephengent9974 3 жыл бұрын
They were called trade knives. Many different types of knives were exported to America. A lot were just butcher knives. Incidentally our blankets supplied the Hudson Bay Company. The D guard bowies, supposedly used by Confederate forces, were often more for show, than actually used in combat. Many were crudely made by blacksmiths
@superbuddyfranklin
@superbuddyfranklin 3 жыл бұрын
Excuse my language but that is the greatest fucking KLO I have ever seen.
@superbuddyfranklin
@superbuddyfranklin 3 жыл бұрын
13:20
@VehemensDecor
@VehemensDecor 5 жыл бұрын
You know those thin, cup-hilted spanish rapier designs that show up in films and other popular culture. Did those actually exist? Are they right for the period in which they are sometimes depicted in?
@DogbadTV
@DogbadTV 5 жыл бұрын
Capt. R. F. Burton (obviously not your favourite authority!) refers to the popularity of the "Arkansas Toothpick" among Hejazi Bedouin in the first edition of his "Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Medinah and Meccah" 1855-56). Interesting to read the term used at this date and in this context,, because I always associated the term with American Civil War usage.
@scholagladiatoria
@scholagladiatoria 5 жыл бұрын
Interesting! I did not know that and I do find Burton's writings extremely interesting, even if I think he was a master of BS some of the time. I think in mid-Victorian parlance the Arkansas Toothpick refers to any dagger that is straight and double-edged probably.
@sethmays8309
@sethmays8309 5 жыл бұрын
What kind of distal taper is common on the average Bowie Knife?
@davekingrey1009
@davekingrey1009 4 жыл бұрын
I have always wondered if bowie knives were related to the seax
@ramibairi5562
@ramibairi5562 5 жыл бұрын
Interesting ! Matt have you ever come across accounts described swords used in hunting wild dangerous predators such as tigers?
@scholagladiatoria
@scholagladiatoria 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, there are examples in Swordsmen of the British Empire by Kinsley
@richarddelotto2375
@richarddelotto2375 5 жыл бұрын
...nice Toothpick. From a US perspective it has sort of a San Fransisco look to it.
@harehak9606
@harehak9606 5 жыл бұрын
Great video :) Imo, too many knives are called bowie knives..
@Tomartyr
@Tomartyr 5 жыл бұрын
Those that can, do. Those that have, teach.
@calamusgladiofortior2814
@calamusgladiofortior2814 5 жыл бұрын
An Anglo-Indian Bowie knife? Call it an Allahabad Toothpick ;)
@vincentvincent5979
@vincentvincent5979 5 жыл бұрын
David Bowie knife!
@RisikoAO
@RisikoAO 5 жыл бұрын
that is silvah, and that is also silvahhhhhhh! (I love the accent :D )
@Ivanofkoshinkaisokanryu
@Ivanofkoshinkaisokanryu 5 жыл бұрын
when i think of confederate Bowie i think of d gurad bowie this is why i think of that this is the title of a video that thake about a book i think people are get some of there info from Confederate Bowie Knives of the Georgia State Arsenal": Book Review
@KageNoTora74
@KageNoTora74 4 жыл бұрын
Historically, bowie knives were ill defined. Jim Bowie used "a large sheath knife" to defend himself in the aftermath of the sandbar duel. These days the name is most associated with the clip point Sheffield bowie.
@scholagladiatoria
@scholagladiatoria 4 жыл бұрын
Indeed
@MrEdium
@MrEdium 4 жыл бұрын
THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL PIG STICKERS
@blairbuskirk5460
@blairbuskirk5460 5 жыл бұрын
Respect original patina.
@philbyrd5561
@philbyrd5561 5 жыл бұрын
NO CONTEXT?!?
@jacobstaten2366
@jacobstaten2366 5 жыл бұрын
Jim "Boo E" David "(recurve)Bow E" "Bow(down) E" weight loss facility. All spelled Bowie.
@JohnRutherford205
@JohnRutherford205 5 жыл бұрын
*Hears Jim Bowie* Ah yes, Texas.
@michelenicolarizzo2304
@michelenicolarizzo2304 5 жыл бұрын
I was asking myself if it is so unusal in England to have a "panoplia" (as in home weapons exposition). My general understanding is it quite unusual worldwide because sometimes you may not want to distaste pacifist and the ladies.
@FellsApprentice
@FellsApprentice 5 жыл бұрын
Paciifists should be made to feel uncomfortable
@sushanalone
@sushanalone 5 жыл бұрын
Maybe its just like the time i got drunk in Sydney and wrote my name on the Harbour Bridge, same with Austin maybe ...
@jazminekissel2568
@jazminekissel2568 5 жыл бұрын
The question is ... is it woots ?
@scholagladiatoria
@scholagladiatoria 5 жыл бұрын
I see no evidence of wootz and these styles of knives are usually modern (for the time) cast steel.
@thedamnyankee1
@thedamnyankee1 5 жыл бұрын
Austin could be Austin Tex.... Damit.
@vedymin1
@vedymin1 5 жыл бұрын
Mr. Pursebane would say: "very uncultured indeed" ;)
@dushyantkarthikeyan
@dushyantkarthikeyan 5 жыл бұрын
Matt, The spelling might be "Arunachalam" or at least it is in modern Tamil pronounced similar to how it is spelled.
@georgehedgepeth2661
@georgehedgepeth2661 5 жыл бұрын
Look at what Sir William Baker and his brother were running all over Sri Lanka with, poking holes in stags and boars behind a pack of hounds
@kennethh5657
@kennethh5657 5 жыл бұрын
Not to be condescending or anything, but the "original" bowie knife dates back to 1827. Sheffield England didn't start production of the "bowie" knife till the 1850s. Yes, I'm from Texas, and except for the first knife, none of the knives you showed would have been considered a true "bowie" knife. A true bowie knife would have been more like a really large butcher knife with a clip point blade. Open to interpretation of course.
@kennethh5657
@kennethh5657 5 жыл бұрын
@I am Negan Again, 1850s onwards. Twenty years after Jim bowie made the knife famous. The design is particularly Akansa in origin. Most knives prior where also much smaller with blades being around 6in in length. Most "bowie" knives have 8in plus blades. Otherwise it's known as bowie style. It's like comparing a mora to a ka bar.
@sethmays8309
@sethmays8309 5 жыл бұрын
Look up Bowie NO.1 Historic Arkansas Museum it is thought to have been made by James Black the supposed maker of one of iterations of Jim Bowie's knife as it shares the same style as another knife that is confirmed to have been made by Black.
@absolutelyheretical7132
@absolutelyheretical7132 5 жыл бұрын
Nah Bowie obviously copied his design from an original British one then made out as if it was HE who invented it.
@kennethh5657
@kennethh5657 5 жыл бұрын
@@absolutelyheretical7132 Except Bowie didn't claim to have made the knife. James black in Arkansas is the one usually credit for making the original on behalf of Jim Bowie's brother who commissioned him to make the knife. The design and size pre dates anything from England by 20+ years. Most knives out of England were much smaller and probably a more efficient use of steel. The design of the original bowie was probably what we know as traditional Arkansas style, hence the nickname Arkansas toothpick. Now, to get even more confusing, there are no pictures or drawings of the original bowie knife. All we have is written account and traditional references to go by. So it's really anyone's guess.
@shaunnaude5190
@shaunnaude5190 4 жыл бұрын
It is a bolok
@johnladuke6475
@johnladuke6475 5 жыл бұрын
That kukri-shaped one at the end is one sexy noife. Does anyone know if there is a nation where it is legal for a man to wed a bladed instrument? And if so, I would like to ask Matt for permission to marry his knife....
@jameswoodard4304
@jameswoodard4304 5 жыл бұрын
That knife at the end may be considered in the same "family" as the other, but surely not the same purpose. I would hate to have to finish off a wounded animal with that monster.
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