Knife ID help please

[John Fenna]

I just acquired this knife and would like to know what I have - other than a thing of beauty!
Blade - 5 3/4 inch, fullered deep scandi grind,3mmcarbon steel. No writing of any kind on the blade or ricasso.
Handle - Brass bolster, stacked birch bark and birch pommel. Stick/ rat tail tang riveted over brass in the pommel. Thick varnish over everything!
Sheath - embossed leather, machine sewn and riveted construction, brass ornamentation on inside of the curve, leather decoration with twin (one missing) tassels of leather.
Any ideas on maker?
Age?
Value?
Not that I will part with it....

 

[chas brookes]

This looks like it could be it John
http://www.cuttingedge.com/knife/klc08368_large_puukko/whence:%2Fknives%2Fpage%3A51

 

[John Fenna]

Very similar!
Slight difference in the pommel and mine has no decoration on the bolster ...
My sheath is in better nick but otherwise identical!
OK so I have an Iisakka Jarvenpaa....
Ah but how old is it?

 

[brancho]

Very nice knife to own John I love birch bark handles I need to make one and keep it.

 

[snappingturtle]

My mate had some thing like that John, his was from the 1930's but who knows ?

 

[John Fenna]

My research has yielded -
Iisakki Järvenpää of Finland
tassels last used 1940s/50s

Any further details and value would be welcome

 

[baggins]

Iisakki knives are lovely, i have a couple of newer ones. But the older ones really did make a name for themselves in the early 20th c. I believe there is even a picture of JFK in the oval office with a IJ knife on the desk. I'm sure one of our Finnish brethren will be able to shed more light on what you have.

 

[chas brookes]

I did have a head start in identifying maker as I did some research when I obtained this mini version as a gift for my wife

 

[John Fenna]

Is that an ear-ring hook!????????????????

 

[chas brookes]

Is that an ear-ring hook!????????????????

it puzzled me

 

[Herman30]

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I have had a similar puukko, bought sometimes in the 80´s.