Unmarked J Russell 'California Carver' Copy 9" Offset Carving Knife Carbon Steel Nickel Stag 1870s 1920s Utensil Eat Closed Length: 3 AAA 271 01 ZM160 Closed Length: 3 Deep ground ura hollow grind on the inside makes for excellent food release and helps to keep a narrow urasaki throughout the life of the blade and a polished spine and heel are a nice touch Made by the J Russell Green River Works company at their Turner's Falls Massachusetts factory from the 1870's to approximately 1920 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