- Titles Bowie Knife with Scabbard (Descriptive)
- Artist George Wostenholm & Son, Sheffield, England, operated about 1785 - 1971
- Medium steel, silver, wood (probably ash) and leather
- Dimensions 9 1/4 × 2 1/2 × 3/8 in. (23.5 × 6.4 × 1 cm)
- Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Mable Courtney Bragan, 1971.15a-b
- Work Type knife and scabbard
- Classification Tools & Equipment
- Signature Unsigned
- Marks Marked on the blade WOSTENHOLM & SON / WASHINGTON WORKS and in a banner THE REAL I.XL KNIFE, with THE HUNTERS COMPANION and I.XL
- Inscription Inscribed on the handle with the initials G W C (for George Washington Courtney) and the date 1861
- Provenance Manufactured by George Wostenholm & Son (operated about 1785-1971), Sheffield, England, 1850-1860. George Washington Courtney (1835-1864), Montgomery County, Alabama; by descent in the family to his niece Mable Courtney Bragan (Mrs. George M. Bragan,1889-1976), Birmingham, Alabama; gift to the Birmingham Museum of Art in 1971