Help with ID this Kabar

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pietje

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Im interested in this lil feller but i cant find information about it. Other then its markings 'Carbon Ka-bar Chrome' and its resemblance to the Kabar Leather Handled Hunter.
About 8 inch (20 cm) overall length and 4 inch (10 cm) blade length.

Item name, specifications and user experience are more then welcome.





 
This knife appears in a 1947 magazine ad as model number 5205-C. The C stands for concave (hollow ground) and the price was $5.00. It isn't given a model name in the ad. Ad does state 'Hollow ground blades of high carbon steel" and "Extra heavy chrome plated".
 
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Thanks Gunsil! Very useful info. Is it possible you could share that source.

Does the ''Extra heavy chrome plated" mean that its a carbon steel blade with a galvanized chrome coating?
 
Scan 79.jpg Yes it is a high carbon blade which has been electroplated in or with chromium. Electroplating is s a different process than galvanizing. I hope you can enlarge the enclosed scan of the original ad which is from a 1947 magazine although I do not know the name of the magazine.
 
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