19th Century Cutlery

The edge of an era of explorers and soldiers

The 19th-Century Cutlery Collection brings together representative pieces from a century marked by colonial expansion, frontier life, major wars, and the rise of traditional crafts. In this selection, you will find knives, pocketknives, daggers, and machetes that accompanied soldiers, mountain dwellers, travelers, sailors, and artisans during a period of profound social and technological change.

Each design reflects the balance between utility and robustness characteristic of the era: durable blades, ergonomic handles of wood or bone, traditional mechanisms, and iconic silhouettes that defined daily life in military camps, ships, ranches, and colonies. A tribute to manual labor and the direct functionality of the 19th-century blade.

Types of parts included

• Classic folding and multi-tool knives
• Camping, hunting and work knives
• Expedition and jungle machetes
• Military and personal daggers

Historical context

• Napoleonic Wars
• Conquest of the West and Frontier Life
• American Civil War
• Maritime expansion and colonial explorations

A perfect collection for collectors, reenactors and lovers of historical cutlery, selected by Medieval Shop .