TED DOWELL FIXED-BLADE KNIFE ENGRAVED BY JULIE WARENSKI
Oregon, 1929-2012
Full-tang construction; the handle and blade made from one piece of mirror-finish steel. Grips with steel pins. Integral guard and butt with exceptional relief-engraved scrolling foliage. Signed on butt with "TMD" monogram mark above "J. Warenski".
Length 9".
Provenance:
The Property of a Gentleman: The Estate of Peter Goldstein.

Notes:
Ted Dowell was born in Watertown, Massachusetts and has a masters of mathematics degree from Boston University. After a stint in the Navy, he settled in Oregon in 1954, where he worked as a mathematics professor. He made his first knife in high school shop class, but the knife shattered when he first used it. An avid deer hunter, he sought to find, or make, a good hunting knife. He started making knives in earnest in the 1960s. The production was a family affair -- his children made sheaths, stoked the stoves, sanded handles and ground blades. His first order for a knife came in June 1968, the result of the only display ad Dowell purchased, a tiny listing in American Rifleman magazine.

Dowell was a founding member of the Knifemakers' Guild and is considered a master of the integral knife.

Julie Warenski-Erickson is one the nation's top knife engravers and designers.

**Not available for international delivery.** Sticker grime on handle. Minor wear at edge of butt.

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