Featured What Is This? Knife with Scoop

You can't use it as a spoon, either, because the knife part would hit the bottom of the bowl. It has to be some kind of tool.

 

Maybe used to gut a deer and then clean out the rest with the scooper.

 

Much too short a handle for that! Or, a very small deer. Or a squirrel!

 

Maybe for gutting trout? Slit and scoop!

 

Please - allow me to expand on your comment -




Thank you..............

 

And that idea suggests: maybe for slitting and scooping out fish eggs, either for caviar, or for bait?

 

I like Rayo suggest of a fish cleaning tool. I've seen some old *really odd* Russian fish cleaning tools that this oddity would fit right in. Are there any marks or remnants of marks on the blade or handle?

--- Susan

 

Then again Quirky's idea of an oyster shucker is a good possibility. There are a lot of oyster and clam shuckers combination knife and scoops out there.

--- Susan

 

I like your idea of Russian tool, Ladybranch.

Oysters are called "ersters" where I am from. I've never seen any such thing, no scooping of any erster necessary, just slide the oyster knife (which is a thick, flat, straight blade) in to pop the shell open, cut through the muscle and voila: there it is on the halfshell. It doesn't make any sense to have a little spoon at the top center of a one-sided blade to try to scoop out an erster that would be much bigger than the spoon - it would flop right off of that.

 

I have one also, so obviously it's not home made. I've searched all over the web, and even contacted antiques roadshow. They put me in contact with an antique knife dealer and she didn't know what it was either. Someone must know.

 

post a photo of yours here !!!!!

 

Looking at this with fresh eyes (after 2 3/4 years?), I don't think that is a "spoon" - I think it is a pressure point for a thumb. So this may be a scribe of some sort???

 

LOL my eyes have only gotten older

If anyone still has this handy, just a couple practical questions. If you hold it in your hand by the handle, can your thumb reach the scoop part without cutting your fingers on the blade underneath? Could the palm of your other hand be easily pressed against the scoop to apply pressure?

 

I thought carpet or linoleum knife too but didn't find one like this in my first look.

 

here's someting i missed before....maybe not helpful...but...

 

Cable sheath splitter. Mid 20th century telephone linesman’s tool.