This is an original Montana Territory Knives of Bozeman, Montana knife with an excellent Montana brown trout scrimshaw artwork. This knife is truly a work of “Montana” art as it shows the brown trout. The blade has been forged from 1095HC (High Carbon) steel and 15N20 Nickel Carbon, which is then heated and folded into 396 layers, creating the astounding “Damascus” steel. The knife shows a wonderful mosaic ladder Damascus. The hollow grind full tang blade has been paired with a set of nice, wild bone grip scales, which are secured to the piece using two mosaic pins and lanyard loop. The knife also features a set of polished stainless-steel bolsters with a comfortable finger well. The tang has been artfully hand vine filled. The grips have also been artfully scrimshaw etched with an image of a brown trout going after a fishing lure. The blade is stamped with the outline of the state of Montana "MT" in the outline with "Bozeman MT" underneath. The knife comes with a tooled leather sheath and is stamped "MT Bozeman MT" with the outline of Montana. The knife measures 9" long with the blade being 4 1/4" long.