Thread: Green River knife Info

I have had a couple of wooden handle green river skinning knives in my time.
I have just acquired this one and am I terested to know if it is an American or nz green river.
I really do like smaller blades as in the blue Jean or the william rodgers brands that I had in the eighties.
I had been running an Allan brown custom for many years until that went awol ten years ago.
I scored another nice wooden handled skinner with no discernable brand on it but goes pretty well for what ido.
I just enjoy the look and feel of wood and steel!
I'm pretty sure some one can enlighten me on here!

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Same writing, where y reckon they made

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Couldn’t tell ya, but I reckon it’s a few years old.


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Originally Posted by MSL

Couldn’t tell ya, but I reckon it’s a few years old.


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Do you want me to look after it for ya?

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Haha


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Being Green River is a US company, were not all GR knives ex US?
I’m a fan and assumed the same. Mine are ex US.

This was my Grandfather's. He always said that when he was a young you weren't a proper shepherd if you didn't have a Green River knife!. Will be following this with interest

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Goddards make the NZ ones and they have a mountain motif on them. Lots of companies use the name "Green River", even in the US.

Yours looks like a US made one.

https://www.google.co.nz/search?q=US...&client=safari

John Russell began manufacturing tools and cutlery in 1834 and established a new factory on the Green River in Massachusetts in 1836. His knives rivaled the quality of those manufactured in Sheffield, England, and as settlers moved West in the 1840s Russell's Green River knives moved with them. Green River knives were ubiquitous in the early American West, and the phrase "up to Green River" entered the American lexicon meaning something well constructed or very well done.

I liked the Blue Jean version too but the steel was pretty soft.

Originally Posted by andyanimal31

I have had a couple of wooden handle green river skinning knives in my time.
I have just acquired this one and am I terested to know if it is an American or nz green river.
I really do like smaller blades as in the blue Jean or the william rodgers brands that I had in the eighties.
I had been running an Allan brown custom for many years until that went awol ten years ago.
I scored another nice wooden handled skinner with no discernable brand on it but goes pretty well for what ido.
I just enjoy the look and feel of wood and steel!
I'm pretty sure some one can enlighten me on here!

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yeah cant help- I did have them shepherding and somehow always thought of them as english - another of that era worth looking for was a NZ made knife Koh Hi Nor they were good - and another called the bush mans friend that was a great shape for a hunting knife - I had a small collection of butcher knives given to me by my parents and grand parents-all butchers they had a shop in Gisborne - sadly a bloody thief decided he wanted them - all gone along with all my fishing gear - packs - cookers - did not get rifles steel safe stopped that thank christ

Very old one. Superb steel and not stainless. Note the small finger grips. (I never liked the later ss goddards versions.

I was pretty sure there was a nz version with a plastic handle as they had been around a fair while in the stock and station firms.
I will take a photo of the one I have been using for the last five years as I can't see any branding on it.
Some body might recognize the build of it.
I'm still on the lookout for a smaller blade version as still doing a lot of skinning.

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green river bushmans friend is my knife of choice..started using one as a teen on farm,pigs and sheep..lots of sheep got dressed out using it... went away for many years to folders and now back using one... there are THREE of them out there that are pretty much identicle
green river and victorinox do bushmand friend mine is A KNIFCUT rabbiters knife bought from hunting n fishing in crappy sheath with an ok steel for well under hundy bucks
Ive got a couple of wooden handled curved skinners and two straight ones with similar shape to bushmans fried..no branding on these old work horses,they MAY have came from freezing works back in the day...dont know,dont care,they are great knives and hold edge well.

I collect knifes and to find a good condition Green River that is stamped into the blade at forging, is quite hard. Tons of later GRs with the name etched onto the blade. I have an very early ''Russel'' brand that was the fore runner of Green River. GR also did a fish fillet type blade. I bet nearly anyone who used knifes as a part of there jobs in 50s and 60s would have had a Green River knife.

Have my grandfather’s green river, very much treasured, but also given plenty of use still!

Etched with Green River, E Goddard ltd, motif largely worn off.
Tidy red leather sheath with the ubiquitous cambrian steel.