Commando knife ?.

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BUTCHERBOYUK

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Hi,can Anyone Help Me Find Out More About My Dads Old Commando Knife.i Have Searched The Web But Dont Seem To Have Got Any Joy In Identifying It.on The Blade It Is Engraved Abram Brooksbank Malinda Works Sheffield.inside The Sircle It Has A Cannon And The Word Defiance Written There.this Is A Lovely Knife That I Have Had All My Life,dad Was In The Navy But Was Not A Commando Just A Sailor I Think.any Help At All Will Be Great.
Thanks Again
John...
 
Ok, dad's not a commando but in the Navy.
Has of all things, a COMMANDO KNIFE with SHEFFIELD engraved on it.
Was that the British Navy or US Navy?
And in which year did he obtain this knife?
If you have described the knife as being a COMMANDO KNIFE, is it in actual fact a standard British Commando dagger?
To help you out try looking up what is probably the best webpage on the subject.
-http://www.gotavapen.se/gota/artiklar/fs/p1/fs_knife_p1.htm
There are only three patterns of the UK Commando dagger.
Most commonly found and still manufactured in Sheffield these days is the 3rd pattern with concentric rings for grip on its alloy handle.
Earlier WW2 F-S Fighting Knives, the 1st and 2nd patterns have diamond checked knurled handles.
There were also less common handle types with distinct features of its own; including wooden handles.
So "butcherboyuk", could describe the knife itself?
Or at least how you have come to the conclusion that dad's knife is a commando knife?
 
He's had a reply from "Hepotec" over on the British Blades website on this query.


Abram Brooksbank, Malinda Works, Sheffield, 1850 – 1900.

In 1845, the works was listed as being occupied by Hoole and Brooksbank. Abram Brooksbank, a Londoner who moved to Sheffield in the 1840s and was related to Hoole by marriage, invested in the business after it had fallen on hard times, and became Hoole's partner. The company was listed as “merchants, steel refiners and file, saw, scissor, table, shoe and butchers knife manufacturers”. William Hoole died in 1849, and Brooksbank took over the business, specialising in table knives and the more common types of folding cutlery.


Abram Brooksbanks manufactured cutlery and other items in Sheffield's Malinda Street Works between 1845 and 1925. Brooksbank's trademark was a cannon and the word 'DEFIANCE'.


Taken from this website:

http://www.futuremuseum.co.uk/Collec...ork_and_knife/
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Sounds like he's sorted?
 
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