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Hanwei / Paul Chen - Chevalier Bowie
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Short description:
High quality and fully functional reproduction of a 19th century Bowie knife.
Comes in matching brown leather sheath with polished steel fittings.
(See text below for the full description.)
The Bowie Period in American History was a turbulent one, and originated on a sandbar on the Mississippi near the town of Natchez in 1827, when a political duel grew to a mass fight.
James Bowie, who was only an observer at this duel, was shot and stabbed through with a swordcane.
Although his wounds were so grave that his life hung by a thread for weeks afterwards, he managed to dispatch his major opponents with a Bowie knife.
This infamous Sandbar Fight as it later became known, took the imagination of the country by storm.
Newspapers far and wide copied the stories from the Natchez papers and soon every man wanted a knife like Bowie's; a Bowie knife.
American cutlers (many of them surgical instrument makers) and Sheffield, England cutlers began to make Bowie knives to fill the market demand.
The Bowie period lasted about forty years, from the Sandbar Fight to the end of the Civil War.
When pistols became reliable and plentiful, the size of the knife shrank, and by 1870 the Bowie knife was used mainly as a hunting knife.
Bowies were made in a period of hand labour, the industrial revolution had not touched the cutlery trades.
All the work on the old knives was done by hand, with artisan skills that were learned during a long apprenticeship.
The Historical Bowie Series covers both Bowies that were made in different American States as well as Bowies made in Sheffield for the American market.
Each piece is crafted with a hand-forged high-carbon steel blade, nickel-silver fittings and natural grip materials, as were the originals.
Each sheath is crafted in top-grade leather and a belt-frog, where applicable, is included.
Every effort has been made to replicate accurately the details of the original pieces, so as to provide heirloom-quality Bowies to the serious collector.
The version you see in the picture is a replication of a Bowie knife made by John Chevalier.
He had a shop on Broadway in New York, where he made Bowie knives and surgical instruments from 1835 to 1871.
His quality was first rate; one of his Bowies was presented to Edwin Forest, a larger-than-life theatrical star of the period and apparently a collector of Bowies.
Another knife was presented to Forest by James Bowie himself, probably when Forest and Bowie met in Natchez.
Surviving Chevalier Bowies are much sought after by collectors.
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| Artikelnummer | Uitvoering | Prijs |
|---|---|---|
| PCKH2187 | N.V.T. | €188,00 (US$ 298,92) |
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| Artikelnummer | Uitvoering | Prijs | Levering |
|---|---|---|---|
| PCKH2187 | N.V.T. | €188,00 (US$ 298,92) | Usually ships within 1-10 days |
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