Vintage Portuguese kitchen knife

3 de January de 2014

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Very old Portuguese kitchen/skinner knife

Blade: Carbon steel
Blade Marks: (hard to read) “ACLIM . MAG” and bellow “MARAES” that should stand for “GUIMARAES” a traditional cuttlers town in Portugal
Handle: Horn
Origin; Guimarâes, Portugal
Probbably late IXX, early XX century

Help need here, both to identify this knife as well as interpret the blade marks. “Tentatively” the blade engravings read:
JOAQUIM.MACHADO
GUIMARAES

Markings detail

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