Just A Picture - Traditional Picture Show

Jack, you and Sarah are showing some chilling shots of beautiful knives!:thumbup::foot:
Perry
 
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Great pics, Barry. I particularly like that Boone/#85 EO combo. :thumbup:

I'm drooling over my Moose on this Friday afternoon...

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Great pics Barry!!! I've never seen one of those American Patriot knives before. Looks like a #23? Is that mammoth ivory?
 
Thanks guys! The "American Patriot" was originally red, white, and blue acrylic that I was never fond of, but loved the etch. It's a 73 pattern and rehandled in mammoth ivory found by my late friend, Vern Higman, on a beach in Alaska. He was a WWII vet and well loved in the community. He was shot down twice in the Pacific and had a number of medals including distinguished flying cross (2) and purple heart. I met him when he was president of the Seattle Banjo Band back in the seventies when I was a youngster. He was playing banjo in my father's pizza pub at the time.

In this image he had just successfully landed his Avenger on the deck of the Ticonderoga; this was the time he was injured. He told me that a coulple motor mounts were sheared off by a 4" shell, and the shrapnel tore into his legs, but he managed to land it. He said they just pushed the wreck over the side. On another sortie, he had to ditch nearby and be plucked out of the sea.

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He always had a smile on his face and a story to tell. I miss him. :cool: Oh, he also played mandolin!
 
singin50 said:
Goodness, some great shots there, Barry! Who knew you were a mandolin player?:cool:
Perry
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Perry, my grandfather bought that mando in a junk shop in Castro Valley CA back in the twenties. My dad inherited it and then it came to me. I've been trying to learn how to play the damn thing all my life with only very limited success! :o
 
That's a very neat story and great family history, Barry! Hold on to it! It has lots of value!
Perry
 
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