1884 Roosevelt Hunting Knife Replica (Custom Antique Knife Replicas)
Display replica of the silver hunting knife Tiffany & Co. made for Theodore Roosevelt in 1884, the knife he wore as a Dakota rancher: a figure-sculpted handle, a leaf-and-twig guard, a blade etched with deer and bears, and a scabbard of hunters riding among stampeding bison, about 13.5 in long. Originals like this are museum pieces: a gold-handled hunting knife given to Roosevelt in 1909 sold for $414,000 at auction in 2016, reported as a record for an American knife. We can replicate any antique knife from photos for a modest modeling fee, and very slight changes to this one are $5. A plastic display piece with no cutting edge.
- American Museum of Natural History, Digital Collections: Theodore Roosevelt's Tiffany dagger: museum photographs of the original 1884 knife and scabbard
- American Museum of Natural History Research Library: catalog record for the knife: Art and Memorabilia collection
- New York State Museum: Theodore Roosevelt, Icon of the American Century: the National Portrait Gallery exhibition that showed his sterling silver hunting knife by Tiffany & Co., dated 1884
- Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University: Theodore Roosevelt in 1885: Library of Congress portrait of Roosevelt in his buckskin suit with the knife in his belt
- Emporia State University: Stout and Sharp, Theodore Roosevelt's Tiffany-Made Hunting Knife: history of the knife by Don Arp, Jr., Heritage of the Great Plains, 2014 (PDF)
- Rock Island Auction Company: Theodore Roosevelt's Hunting Knife: the gold-handled 1909 knife that sold for $414,000 in 2016
Approx size: 247 × 247 × 227 mm. Material: available in PLA, PETG, PAHT-CF and more. Delivery: Knoxville pickup or USPS shipping.
Recommended material: PLA Metal, PLA Silk+. PLA Metal (Iridium Gold or Iron Gray) or PLA Silk Silver gives a metallic look; for more heft in the hand, raise the infill up to 100%, which adds weight, print time and cost.
Recommended nozzle: 0.2 mm. The etched blade and sculpted handle need a 0.2 mm nozzle at 0.08 mm layers, and this price reflects that slow, fine slice.
From $35.48 for one part in PLA Basic, printed to order. Other materials, quantities, shipping, and tax are priced at checkout.
Original Titan Forgeworks design.