A knife I found

Policetac said:
But in my defense, that was the reason for the "sass" to begin with. I didn't feel that the moderators comment was necessary, expressed professionally, or even relevant.

Anyway... Let's get back to knives! :)
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I agree!
 
Is this the camera used to take those pics?

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ToxicBot11 said:
Is this the camera used to take those pics?

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Compared to a cell phone, those old cameras took excellent pictures... :p

Knife related: I would spend some effort to get some good pictures of the current condition before starting the cleaning process. And I would post those good quality pictures in the Bernard Levine Knife Identification area of the forum. I think there's a chance, small chance, that knife might be something special, and if so you want to leave it as original of condition as you found it.

You must at least know someone who has a half-decent point-and-shoot or DSLR? Take the camera and knife outside, and shade the knife with a white trash bag.
If you lived closer I'd volunteer myself and my camera to take some pictures.
 
You are lucky to find the knife and thank you for showing it here.

I fiddled a bit with one of the pics and then printed it out and photographed a Buck 119 Special (handle intact, unfortunately for this use) for your amusement:









The "bump" is where the edge grind ends and the choil begins (choil ends at the guard/hilt). A common feature on knives because the choil allows you to choke up on the blade enabling fine work with the knife without cutting your finger even though your finger is on the blade.





Some here collect blades without handles. Perhaps one of those fellas will drop by and recognize your hidden tang clip point hunting knife. Or, perhaps the unusual finger guard will give its identity away...

The finger guard on your found knife kind of looks like the finger guard on this old Schrade hunting knife, to my sore eyes anyway:

 
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Your knife looks like a vintage Mibro Solingen Germany hunting knife currently up for bid in the US. It has the same finger guard anyway. Perhaps your knife is of German origin.
 
oregon said:
Your knife looks like a vintage Mibro Solingen Germany hunting knife currently up for bid in the US. It has the same finger guard anyway. Perhaps your knife is of German origin.
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I agree. It looks like a Solingen made, German hunting knife to me. The hump in the blade was probably caused when the sharpened portion of the edge rusted away. The "double guard" was a decorative metal spacer for the leather washer handle. You are missing the aluminum pommel which would have been threaded to the end of the handle. The thing is probably from the 1950s-70s. At any rate it would have been deposited there at some point after your home was built.

I once looked very much like this:
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Idk, the spine in relation to the tip looks different on that one to me. Also, would the carbon steel have outlasted the aluminum of the pommel??
 
Guessing, but pointy terminal end of tang probably wasn't threaded onto an aluminum end.
 
In Seaview, I don't think the knife would have to be all that old to be that rusty!

My wife is from Long Beach and we stay in Seaview often. Love the Washington coast!
 
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