{"id":5699,"date":"2011-07-09T17:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T22:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2011-07-09T17:39:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T22:39:27","slug":"bowie-knife-with-wood-handle-c-1890","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=5699","title":{"rendered":"Bowie knife with wood handle, c.1890"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hunting knife with a &#8220;Bowie&#8221; blade, named after Colonial James &#8220;Jim&#8221; Bowie in the early 1800&#8217;s. Measures 11-1\/4&#8243; long from end of handle to the tip of the blade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8048.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5700\" title=\"IMG_8048\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8048.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8048.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8048-300x231.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marked &#8220;ALFRED WILLIAMS, SHEFFIELD ENGLAND&#8221; on the middle of the steel blade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5701\" title=\"IMG_8050\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8050.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8050.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8050-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both the iron guard and turned oak wood handle are replacements and are held together with the aid of a nut and bolt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8051.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5702\" title=\"IMG_8051\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8051.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8051.jpg 399w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_8051-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The original handle would have been made of bone, as seen on this Bowie knife made by Alfred Williams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/httpwww.nwponyexpress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5704\" title=\"http:www.nwponyexpress\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/httpwww.nwponyexpress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/httpwww.nwponyexpress.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/httpwww.nwponyexpress-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo courtesy of <a href=\" http:\/\/www.nwponyexpress.com\">Northwest Pony Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunting knife with a &#8220;Bowie&#8221; blade, named after Colonial James &#8220;Jim&#8221; Bowie in the early 1800&#8217;s. Measures 11-1\/4&#8243; long from end of handle to the tip of the blade. Marked &#8220;ALFRED WILLIAMS, SHEFFIELD ENGLAND&#8221; on the middle of the steel blade. Both the iron guard and turned oak wood handle are replacements and are held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[19,68],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-household","tag-english","tag-wood-handle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5889,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions\/5889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}