Is it or isn't it???

[Telechronos]

A few days ago, I e-mailed the owner and asked a few more detailed questions about the knife. I indicated that a knife of the value he asserts it to be, requires a little more information before I consider buying it. As expected I received no reply.

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[skyhorse]

Someone is gonna be real

 

[Mitch W.]

This is from a Wikipedia search on Hoyt Buck, it sheds a little light on the tang stamp:

Buck Knives Inc. dates it history back over 100 years to the first knives made by Hoyt H. Buck. Hoyt H. Buck became a blacksmith apprentice in Kansas in 1899 at the age of 10.[2][3] During his tenure Hoyt learned to make knives and in 1902 when he was 13, he developed a method of heat-treating the steel in hoes and other tools so they would hold an edge longer.[2] Hoyt left Kansas in 1907 for the American northwest and eventually enlisted in the United States Navy.[2] He is not known to have made knives until 1941 in Mountain Home, Idaho after the attack on Pearl Harbor.[2] Hoyt made each knife by hand, using worn-out file blades as raw material.[4] These early knives are called "four strikes" by collectors, because each of the letters in BUCK was struck with an individual letter stamp, which in 1961, was replaced by a one-piece stamp.[3]

Here is a link to the entire article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Knives

 

[Telechronos]

As a final note to this saga, the knife sold for $610.

Here is Joe's response to my questions about the knife:

"I just saw the auction. My gut says it is not a Buck knife at all. It says H H Buck on one side and I cant make out the initials on the other but it looks like G something. I know there is a G Buck out there somewhere that makes knives and I wonder if they are the same? Weird coincidence if they are.
The blade work kind of looks like something one of the Bucks would do but that is the only Buck-like characteristic I see. Sheath does not look like a Buck, guard, handle, pommel, not Buck like.
I hope this helps,"

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[A.P.F.]

If I was a guessing man, I'd say it came from that region of Pakistan were they can make AK47's out of old soup cans and baling wire.

LMAO! I am inclined to agree. The handle and tang design looks like it is designed to shear where the ricasso meets the tang. The fact that someone just paid six bills for it, shows that there truly is one born every minute.