"What's It" Basic Rules Reminder

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• Only Patriot Woodworker Members are eligible to participate and receive the award.
• The MWTCA only accepts a verified source to support your answer, so one should be submitted with your answer, such as a patent, catalog entry, tool book reference, or a respectable website on the subject. Do not let these requirements prevent you from having fun and submitting educated answers on the subject without verification, we can worry about references later. All answers are welcome, as well as healthy debates regarding "What's It".
• If a verified and referenced answer is not arrived at by the end of each month's "What's It" project, a random draw will be performed for a "One Year MWTCA Club Membership".
• Only Patriot Woodworker's who participate in this "What's It" topic will be included in the random draw.

 

Additional What's It Rules

• Unless you are completely sure what this item is, please avoid "definitive statements" that appear that you are without a doubt claiming that you know what the item is. For example stating, "this item is called a "widget xx" used for "insert purpose here". If you are making a definitive statement you must accompany your statement with evidence or proof from a secondary source.
• An example of acceptable statements within the realm of having fun and educated guesses would be something like this, "I believe it could be", or "It appears it's made for this or that", etc etc etc...

 

Ok ladies and gentlemen, we now have our "What's it" live and ready!

The image(s) below is a MWTCA "What's It" image for you to research, and tell us all here in this topic post, just what the heck is it!

 

Project Details

The information provided hereon is all the information that is provided, no further information on this item will be added.

 

7 inches long

"Unless you are completely sure what this item is, please avoid "definitive statements"

Regardless, I can  definitively  state that I  have no idea.

I would guess a skinning knife used in a meat packing plant.  The end is used to pierce the hide and the hooks are used to peel the hide.  Gross but logical.

One weird can opener

I'm thinking leather working.  This is a leather slitting knife.

 

Linoleum Knife?

16 hours ago, steven newman said:

Linoleum Knife?

 

Ooooo Steve! Good one!

For "cutting in" around cabinets and other protrusions on a floor?

I think its a sash knife, seems to me when i worked at the old az sash and door jt way back (was a kid) the glazers used something like this to pull putty outta bad glaze jobs. but its been so long it may have only been something similar.

rj in az

It is a can opener!

maybe your're on to something there. 

rj in az

Edges going the wrong way....looks more like a Hawkbill...on steroids...center blade has a straightedge, facing up....for getting back into a corner...the 2 curved edges are for pulling towards the operator....

maybe a whalers knife, for ripping and peeling, lol, is is an oldie or appears so.

happy hump day

 rj in az, sash knife, lol

I up voted @steven newman answer, very compelling indeed!

Looks like a flensing knife variant to me.

37 minutes ago, StaticLV2 said:

Looks like a flensing knife variant to me.

What is a flensing knife Static?

used in whaling, reason i offered up the maybe involved with whaling, hard to say, kinda fun know i've seen it before, but the grey stuff doesn't or can't put it together. 

rj in az

I am not completely sure of the operation but flensing knives are used to separate the blubber from the skin when butchering a carcass.