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Nice knives you got :-))

SMF means Solingen Metallwaffenfabrik Stoecker & Co.

They have the sitting knight on the blade.

These OFTs were made till the early sixties, in the early fifties with the wooden handle.
If it can't be taken apart, you have the variation before 1937, later these knives
were demountable. The German paratroopers got these knives till the seventies for
cutting the lanyards when they landed in bushes, trees or anywere but not on the ground.
The last of these OFTs had a dark green plastic handle.

Best,
Herbert
 
What's the folding knife with ribbed scales that's blackish colored?
According to a Whut Izzit article by Bernard Levine, it is..
... a knife that had been made during World War II, developed as an emergency survival knife for U.S. Navy pilots. The Navy version had a bail, and came with a snap-flap cloth sheath that fit into a pocket in the life vest. It was made by Colonial Knife Company of Providence, Rhode Island. An Army Air Force version without bail or sheath was made both by Colonial, and by United Machine Tool Company of Grand Rapids, Michigan. United made 60,000 of them, Colonial probably even more
 
in your first group shot, the second down top right...long,looks like horn, with leather braid and red beads....what is that one...
 
snip The last of these OFTs had a dark green plastic handle.

This one Haebbie ? (bot for $50 a while back):
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Square silver button enables breakdown via push, lift off cast part and pivot of handle halves:
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Open:
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There are some good sites, Google key word "gravity knife" or "German Paratrooper Knife" or variations of those. They get auctioned on the popular site.

This is a big, heavy, clunky knife.

ITE's wooden variant was featured in Roman Polanski's first, Polish, feature film from 1962, "Knife in The Water." A pretty good movie, lots of knife content. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaBa2Wj3gHk
 
Sithus, looks like Case makes it... if your talking about the knife above the Case Buffalo knife... Just a little cleaning and she would be a sweet knife... ITE

I was looking at the 3rd picture, above a bone single blade Ka-bar. But looking at it now it looks like it's a folder but also has what looks to me like a custom maker etching on it.
 
That "Barry Wood" is quite a find in that collection! I would venture to say it is the most valuable of the lot ITE. Those are cool knives and VERY collectible. Some nice CASE knives too!

Peter
 
That "Barry Wood" is quite a find in that collection! I would venture to say it is the most valuable of the lot ITE. Those are cool knives and VERY collectible. Some nice CASE knives too!

Peter

Thanks Peter, I'm keeping that Barry Wood knife for sure and a few others... The case knives are nice, But I'm more in to Buck knives right now... ITE
 
Haebbie, I got the Square silver button on mine... But I'm not sure if I should try and take it apart... ITE

ITE, don't be worried. It is a German knife and they kept it simple. Press the button, remove the guard, and pull the two halves of the handle to the sides that you get a V with the peak at the pommel. This simple mechanic was made to keep the cleaning of the knife easy.
Haebbie
 
in your first group shot, the second down top right...long,looks like horn, with leather braid and red beads....what is that one...

I thinks it's horn too... It's about 7 1/4" closed and the Blade is about 6 1/8" or so long... It has A.V. on the blade... One of small ones that look like it have LaVespa Made Italy on the blade and the other little one has Kip made Italy on the blade... Never seen any like these 3 before...They have a cool lock blade on them... I will try and take some pics of them later... ITE
 
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