GW Hunter Knot - first write up?

[Timothy Hyde]

Can some wise person please tell me when and where the Hunter Knot first appeared in print?

Timothy

[Guest]

I'm not sure if it was the first appearance in print, but it's in "Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks", compiled by Stewart James, which I believe was first published in 1941.

There's a whole chapter on the Hunter Knot and variations in Karl Fulves' "Self Working Rope Tricks".

[Timothy Hyde]

Thanks Edwin. I'm wondering if the routine may have appeared in a British magazine before those?

[Guest]

That I wouldn't know. I did find another reference in Denis Behr\'s database to a prior appearance in Tarbell Vol. 3 (1927).