A double edge boot dagger knife from my dad.

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I have no idea who made this. Japan. 440. Handles of unknown metal cheaply painted in camo.
Does anyone know the maker/year made?




 
I believe Explorer is the maker and the model is the 21-039. They appear to have been made in the late 70's and 80's.
 
Had one as a teen. Mine had the black handle.

I ordered it from a Westbury Sales Co add in the back of a magazine in 1982. I couldn't afford a Gerber MKI, which it copies, with no job at 12 years old.

Don't remember what happened to it.
 
Always beware of " 440 stainless " as 440 comes in three versions , 440A, 440B, and 440C. 440A isn'tmuch of ablade steel but 440C makes a very good blade !!
 
Todd21969 said:
Had one as a teen. Mine had the black handle.

I ordered it from a Westbury Sales Co add in the back of a magazine in 1982. I couldn't afford a Gerber MKI, which it copies, with no job at 12 years old.

Don't remember what happened to it.
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I believe Parker also sold one under his mark. Possibly one Japanese company made them, but they were marketed under different labels. I think the original design for Gerber was done by Loveless.
 
The Gerber mark 2 looked exactly like that, with a "cat's tongue" aluminum handle.

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That is an "Explorer" brand owned by Guttman, one of if not the first US knife company to contract in Seki Japan.They imported a whole bunch of models under the Explorer and Edge Mark brands including various daggers and hollow handled "survival knives". The 440 stainless is most likely Aus6, as many US companies back then used the US equivalent for customer familiarity rather than the Japanese designation. Very similar models were made in the early 1980s for brands Jim Parker, possibly Jim Frost, Valor Corp, etc. Many of these were basically copies of the then popular Gerber models.
 
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