Russell Green River Works 12" chef knife with stamped and hand ground carbon steel blade with nickel riveted rosewood handle and acid etched Russell Green River Works markings. 

This was most likely made in Turners Falls Mass. in the 1930s before J Russell folded or possibly made by Dexter in Southbridge Mass after the Dexter-Russell merge up to the 1950s with older dies and or parts.

This will cut great with its fine ground tapering blade, or make a nice addition to a collection. 

Russell Green River Works was the first American knife-maker to look to aggressively meet the new and growing American cutlery market which was being met with English imports from Sheffield. In the pre-Civil War time period of the 1830s to 1860 Sheffield engaged in a protracted trade war with the new American knife makers, dumping underpriced knives on the American market in an effort to bankrupt companies such as J Russell, Lamson and Goodnow, and Harrington Cutlery. Russell's answer to this was to offer wages double that being available in Sheffield and to incorporate immigrant Sheffield skilled labor into his process.