Here are the timeframes of three modern traditional knife patterns.
The stout bolstered Barlow is the oldest being developed and popularized in the 1600s by Sheffield knife makers in industrializing England. It's been popular throughout the world since.
The 4 bladed Congress first became popular in the American South, with agricultural workers, merchants and plantation owners, Cotton & Tobacco in the 1820s-1840s.
The 3 bladed Stockman hit the scene and first became popular in the American West after the War of Northern Aggression...with cattle ranchers and cowboys. So around the 1870s.
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