What kind of knife is this?

Thank you for your answers!

 

For scraping pelts/skins?

 

napped flint......?
with unusual grooves.
Maybe a lance point .
maybe a knife point..?

 

Corner tang knife.

Any provenience?

Archeologically unusual, but not unknown.

Sometimes faked.

 

I know a guy who flint-knaps... he always has these little cuts from flying flint chips. I told him he was gonna put his eye out... but he says that risk is part of the experience, and anyway, he says, he has an excellent squint and thick lashes.

Men.

Anyway, relative to Steersman's post... he sells them to people whom he KNOWS misrepresent them, which I detest. I wish I could do something about it.

 

When he's napping the flint......stand in front of him in your best Brazilian bikini !!

That'll put an eye out fer sure !!!

 

I used to commit a bit of knappery myself. It's a well-made item.

This piece was made by a skilled knapper, and sorta looks too nice. Also, it's not been resharpened.

Impossible to tell without having it your hand. Fakes are usually pretty evident if you know what to look for, although the fakes made 100 years ago can be tough to tell.

 

Check to see if any edges are ground. They'll feel slightly duller. One or more edges would have been ground so you didn't cutcherself.

Learning to knap does take some blood loss, but mainly in the hands and thighs.

With some materials, flake edges can be as sharp as a single molecule. Flint is about a 7 in hardness. It'll cut glass.

 

Yes the edges are dull