Spectacular Knife

This Hudson’s Bay Company trade item was popular with hunters of western Canada during the last half of the nineteenth century.

Often called a buffalo knife or chief’s knife, it was described as “extremely heavy… a sort of butcher’s cleaver with a point instead of squared-off end.”

This well-designed specimen, made by Jukes Coulson, Stokes & Co. Ltd. of London, England, was found to be equally versatile as a light hatchet, cleaver, skinning knife, or deadly weapon.