Is there a copy or picture of the "k a bar" letter?

Google Image it, and you get some interesting vintage stuff.

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Thanks, Guyon. Made the middle pic my laptop background. :D I wish I had one of those buckles, that thing is cool. One is on the bay for 89.99 but that's a bit too much for me. :D
 
nutoknives, you don't know the Ka-Bar model number of that Buck 110 look-alike shown above, do you?
 
Noswad0208 said:
Thanks, Guyon. Made the middle pic my laptop background. :D I wish I had one of those buckles, that thing is cool. One is on the bay for 89.99 but that's a bit too much for me. :D
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Just keep watching. That seller is overpriced on most of what he sells. I got my 5 Kabar buckles for $15 to $25 (2 bear and 2 doghead - both in pewter and brass, plus a flat plate of brass with the slanted Kabar logo stamped into it). They pop up all the time. (Well, not the flat plate logo buckle.) Products of the Cole National period.
 
zzyzzogeton said:
Just keep watching. That seller is overpriced on most of what he sells. I got my 5 Kabar buckles for $15 to $25 (2 bear and 2 doghead - both in pewter and brass, plus a flat plate of brass with the slanted Kabar logo stamped into it). They pop up all the time. (Well, not the flat plate logo buckle.) Products of the Cole National period.
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Thanks for the info. I'll watch for one.
 
I love the story, and I wanna find merit within......

K a Bar.

Who knows.......

Moose
 
The "letter" is only a legend, there are those who doubt it ever existed. There is nobody at present day KA-BAR who can confirm or prove it ever existed. The whole story seems rather made up to me, and many folks have different ideas about how the "KA-BAR" name came about. I mean, if the "guy" couldn't spell "killed a bear" how could he have spelled Union Cutlery Co. State St. Olean, N.Y. to get the letter sent to them?? Awfully fishy.
 
That's true, but either way, still a cool story that, if not true, most likely has some true elements to it.
 
Just imagine if you will,
That this mythical mountain man instead wrote,
"Deer union cutlery I k a Bigfoot.."
Only he couldn't spell Bigfoot and wrote bear.
Yup, a tall tail concerning a mean old bear.
more likely bass,
If he lived today he would k a bad$$.
 
One of the versions I read a long time ago included info that the letter arrived several weeks/months after it was sent. The US mail moved even slower than today back in the 191Xs. Also, the letter was bent, spindled, folded and been rained on. The phrase in the letter was not "k a bar", but that was what was readable and was interpreted from other info in the letter to mean "killed a bear".

As with the old parlor game of whispering in you neighbor's ear and passing the message along, details of a story are dropped, changed, edited and abbreviated over time.

Time flies when you're having fun, but a year or two ago, while surfing the web for old info on a particular kabar knife, I ran across a site that had a picture of an old letter with water spots, water-run ink, wrinkles, etc along with the legend. Don't remember if the pic was supposed to be of the actual letter or staged version. My google-foo seems to be on vacation right now and I can't find the site back. Should'a copied pic. :(
 
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