An NOS 60s Western Bowie for each hand...

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From a local estate sale. From the price tags it looks like they were purchased from Kmart in September and December of 1968. One of them has some sort of cosmoline on the blade, the other does not. Each has a bit of pitting from poor storage. Nice knives to hold and impressive too:

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That's just awesome, so many of those went to war back in those days and I can certainly see the appeal. The steel western used is just awesome, and their sheaths are top notch as well.
 
Congratulations from Colorado, where those knives were born!

Zieg
 
What would $14 be worth today? Just curious. Believe it or not. My uncle carried one of these for years in deer season. He butchered on farms and felt a deer needed bled out, like a pig. If he was near and a shot went ker-plunk (those that hunt know what I'm talking about), he'd come to help field dress and the first item on the list was western bowie to jugular veins. The other thing he used it for was breaking down the pelvis joint to between the hips to aid in that area of field dressing. Alas all that abuse led to the knife failing. A huge chip came out of it. He had me look for a replacement for a while but when he found out that the "aint" $14 anymore he kind of balked.
Just sharing a little personal history, hope I don't offend anyone, it was not my intent.
 
That's a great find! I've picked up a few interesting things, not knives though, at some local estate auctions.
 
Rockon75 said:
What would $14 be worth today?
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According to the "dollartimes" inflation calculator, $14.41 in 1968 dollars is worth $100.54 in 2016 dollars, so the original owner of these knives paid well for them, but I am willing to bet their value has pretty much kept pace with inflation, what is the current retail for a USA-made Bowie from a name-brand manufacturer???
 
gben said:
According to the "dollartimes" inflation calculator, $14.41 in 1968 dollars is worth $100.54 in 2016 dollars, so the original owner of these knives paid well for them, but I am willing to bet their value has pretty much kept pace with inflation, what is the current retail for a USA-made Bowie from a name-brand manufacturer???
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Bear & son makes a copy of the western w47 called the goldrush Bowie and they're 100$, so I'd say that prices Yale definitely kept up.
 
Those are some nice treasures, what great finds! It's too bad they are a little eaten up, but still wonderful examples.
 
Rockon75 said:
What would $14 be worth today? Just curious. Believe it or not. My uncle carried one of these for years in deer season. He butchered on farms and felt a deer needed bled out, like a pig. If he was near and a shot went ker-plunk (those that hunt know what I'm talking about), he'd come to help field dress and the first item on the list was western bowie to jugular veins. The other thing he used it for was breaking down the pelvis joint to between the hips to aid in that area of field dressing. Alas all that abuse led to the knife failing. A huge chip came out of it. He had me look for a replacement for a while but when he found out that the "aint" $14 anymore he kind of balked.
Just sharing a little personal history, hope I don't offend anyone, it was not my intent.
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You are not offending anyone - merely relating an interesting story about your uncle and thx for that.

I hunt and couldnt imagine using a Western for deer but it seemed to have worked for him.
 
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