Ka-Bar Identification help

[riverdive]

Does anyone know the age and model of this Ka-Bar? I can't find another like it with the red & white spacers, also they flare out into the double guard. OAL is 9 3/8" , BL is 5 1/4", BW 11/16"

 

[Roguer]

For my Technocular opinion I would say its a knife.

Other wise I have to say that is a very knice looking knife!

Hope some one who is really experted in such things IDs it for us!

 

[1066vik]

my vote is somewhere in the 1050-1970 range.
I also strongly suspect that's not the original handle.

 

[riverdive]

It looks to be original to me. With the condition of the blade, I can't imagine the handle got so bad that it had to be replaced. It is just too tight and well done.

 

[gunsil]

Knife is all original and proper, made in the 1950s only. I don't know the KA-BAR Inc model number. Very nice example!

 

[riverdive]

Knife is all original and proper, made in the 1950s only. I don't know the KA-BAR Inc model number. Very nice example!

Thanks, I felt it was unique. Interesting your message that showed up in my email alert says... "I don't know the KA-BAR Inc model number, the earlier Union Cut Co made number was 206." Notice it is missing in your post above.

 

[gunsil]

River, it looked like a 206 but when I read your knife has a 5&1/4" blade I edited post because a 206 had a 4" blade.

 

[zzyzzogeton]

The italicized upper case K lower case abar .. e.g., Kabar, stamp was first used in the later half of the 1950s, starting sometime around the 1956-1957 timeframe as best I have been able to determine.

 

[gunsil]

Wayne, I think the italicized Kabar stamp began with the change to KA-BAR Inc in 1952.

 

[BigAl62]

Reposted in Bernard Levine's Identification forum.