Is this an ancient prototype?

[Charlie Mike]

It is completely sterile.

 

[Janfrederik]

I can't imagine what that would be. Are there any marks anywhere? Where did you get it from?

The serration pattern is interesting. Spyderco's first knife, the Worker, had the two step pattern they use today. I guess that would mean it's either not a Spyderco, they had some reason for doing a different pattern, or it was around before the Worker.

 

[Invective]

The handle, choil and swedge remind me of the Scorpius, but I don't think there were talks about a fixed blade version of that. Eitherway, very cool piece you have

 

[Charlie Mike]

A friend on Facebook wanted me to ask. Too bad I don't have the knife in hand.

 

[A Justice]

Without any information on the source of the knife (what made him think it was a prototype in the first place? You say it's sterile so I'm assuming no markings at all?); so let's say I found that knife at a flea market or pawn shop, I would think that it's 99.9% more likely a cheap knife that resembles a Spyderco if it has no markings. The chance of it being worth more than the value of its metal is very slim. If there was a reason to assume that it might be a Spyderco Prototype (like someone told him that, or there is a picture of Sal Glesser holding such a knife), it might stand a chance - but with no additional information, I'm wondering why he even thinks it might be a prototypefor a major company?

This reminds me of a thread a guy started in the Bernard Levine knife ID forum. He had a crappy knife with stag handles, and kept wanting to draw an association with Bo Randall (it went from being "ANybody know anything about this knife" to "Maybe it's a model 7 prototype"). I know that if you own an unknown knife that you want it to be as rare and valuable as possible, but the chance of any unknown knife being a rare prototype are exceedingly slim. I just told my Grandma today that an old aluminum or steel handle Imperial knife she found was probably not worth anything. Now, I can't say with 100% accuracy that it's not, but the odds are not in her favor.

 

[The Deacon]

Serrations are not SpyderEdge, so I doubt they were done by Spyderco. If the blade ever belonged to a Spyderco, my guess would be that it started out as a PE blade from a Police. If it's not one of your Spydercobortions CM, then it may have been someone's way of turning a Police with a broken lock into a fixed blade of sorts.

 

[Sal Glesser]

Hi Charlie Mije,

Nothing like that from Spyderco.

sal

 

[Charlie Mike]

Thanks Sal!