J Smith 14" English Roast Beef Knife Shear Steel & Stag 19th C. Art In the service style of Color:Deep Red Brick In the service style of the day in hotel restaurants or on train cars with meal service a knife like this would be used to slice at table side hence the brass and ebony on a slightly basic stamped steel blade and features a straight back blade with a slight trailing point grind and beveled and swedged spine but the fact that there is no place name associated suggests Sheffield manufacture for the English market and NOT for export to the USA This style of knife was made for carving the old style English roast beef that was cooked on a spit to the side of a large fire using the radient heat of the fire to cook the roast