Dagger Recommendations

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Just bought a Pitt river stilleto from him. Its pretty decent for the money!
 
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Vintage FBI Wild West dagger from the late '80's / early '90's.
Full tang construction, double hollow ground blade with narrow fuller & stabilized wood handle with brass hardware.
Quality like this never goes out of style.









Specs:

Overall length: 9.4 inch (24,0 cm)
Blade length: 5.11 inch (13,0 cm)
Max blade thickness (ricasso): 4.52 mm
Handle length: 10,6 cm
Steel: AUS-6 stainless
Handle material: Pakkawood with inlayed brass monogram shield & rivets & brass guard
Weight: 169 grams
Sheath: Leather
 
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Vintage Brazilian M3 knife, possibly from the 1980's or 1990's, and made by military manufacturer Imbel














Specs:

Overall length: 28,5 cm
Blade length: 17,5 cm
Blade thickness: 4,9 mm
Blade steel: unknown (possibly polished 1070 steel)
Handle material: Black Bakelite
Guard: steel
Weight (knife only): 179 grams
Sheath: Leather
 
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Hattori 983 Ultra Dagger.
Double hollow ground blade with fuller, tapered tang, and polished black linen Micarta handle.












Specs:

Overall length: 9.4 inch (23,9 cm)
Blade length: 5.11 inch (13,0 cm)
Maximum blade thickness: 4.95 mm (ricasso)
Steel: AUS-8 stainless
Handle material: Black linen Micarta
Weight: 174 grams
Sheath: Leather with steel clip
 
Vintage Othello (Anton Wingen Jr.) 4375 dagger from the early '80's, complete with leather sheath with steel beltclip on the reverse.
The thick blade with ovalized ricasso is most likely made from drop-forged 440C steel, a process that Anton Wingen Jr. used to be famous for in it's day.
Handle is polished Micarta with brass guard & pommel.
Imo a good example of the quality that came out of Solingen only a few decades ago.












Specs:

Overall length: 24,4 cm
Blade length: 12,8 cm
Blade thickness: 6,6 mm (ricasso)
Steel: drop-forged 440C stainless
Handle material: Brown linen Micarta with brass guard & pommel
Sheath: Brown leather with steel belt clip
 
Vintage French dagger from the Airborne Foreign Legion 1er Republic France Algeria Indochina (1948-1961)
Background on this regiment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Fo...chute_Regiment

This example that recently came out of the woodwork is marked on the ricasso: "Rodrigues 1880 Amsterdam".
In pre-internet days this was a well-known hardware store in the Netherlands, and with an owner who was a knife afi with a fondness for quality.
Sadly he and his wife died in 1977 in the Tenerife aircrash, while going on the first holiday of their life.
They had no successors.












Specs:

Overall length: 11.6 inch (29,5 cm)
Blade length: ~7 inch (18,0 cm)
Max blade thickness (ricasso): 4,7 mm
Steel: drop-forged stainless steel
Guard: stainless steel
Handle materials: Fiber and brass
Weight: 241 grams (handle heavy)
Sheath: leather with 4 metal studs
 
Vintage French Foreign Legion dagger from the '60's or '70's by French manufacturer Begon in very nice condition.
Based on the Fairbairn-Sykes model, but with a lighter overall weight and fitted with a characteristically shorter handle (which is hollow and can be weighted to alter the balance)
The blade has never been sharpened and still has the factory flat edges.

















Specs:

Overall length: 29,0 cm
Blade length: 18,5 cm
Maximum blade thickness (ricasso): 4,68 mm
Steel: forged stainless steel
Guard: polished stainless steel
Handle material: impact resistant black plastic
Pommel: polished brass
Sheath: black leather
Weight (without sheath): 122,8 gram
 
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