Knives and skulls

Danke42 said:
Yo Dawg! Heard you like skulls

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All 1800ish
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Great examples! I stand corrected.
 
Rhinoknives1 said:
The only thing i've ever purchased with a Skull on it was a Grateful Dead album, "Skull & Roses" That was back in the 70's.

For the most part,
When i see Skulls on knives, clothing, jewellery is reminds me of something that led to the deaths of about 30-35 million men,women 7 children in the last century depending on whom you ask.

That's my 2 cents about skull emblems
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You can't give them the win on that, that group was very much Johnny come lately to the image.

  2. A skull and crossbones has often been a symbol of pirates, especially in the form of the Jolly Roger, but usually having the crossbones beneath the skull rather than behind it, as used by pirate Samuel Bellamy in one example.
  3. The Italian elite storm-troopers of the Arditi used a skull with a dagger between its teeth as a symbol during World War 1. Various versions of skulls were also later used by the Italian Fascists.
  4. The British Army's Royal Lancers continue to use the skull and crossbones in their emblem, inherited from its use by the 17th Lancers, a unit raised in 1759 following General Wolfe's death in Quebec. The emblem contains an image of a death's head, and the words 'Or Glory', chosen in commemoration of Wolfe.[6]
  5. In 1792, a regiment of Hussards de la mort (Death Hussars) was formed to defend the young French Republic from the Austrian attempt to invade France.[7]
  6. South Korea's 3rd Infantry Division (백골부대) have a skull-and-crossbones in their emblem.[citation needed]
  7. The primarily Prussian 41st Regiment New York Volunteer Infantry, Mustered in: June 6, 1861-Mustered out: December 9, 1865 wore a skull insignia.[8]
  8. The Portuguese Army Police 2nd Lancers Regiment use a skull-and-crossbones image in their emblem, similar to the one used by the Queen's Royal Lancers.
  9. The Kingdom of Sweden's Hussar Regiments wore a death's head emblem in the Prussian Style on the front of the mirleton.
  10. Ramón Cabrera's regiment adopted in 1838 a skull with crossbones flanked by an olive branch and a sword on a black flag during the Spanish Carlist Wars.
  11. The White Russian Kornilov regiment adopted a death's head emblem in 1917.
  12. The Estonian Kuperjanov's Partisan Battalion used the skull-and-crossbones as their insignia (since 1918); the Kuperjanov Infantry Battalion continues to use the skull and crossbones as their insignia today.
  13. Two Polish small cavalry units used death's head emblem during Polish–Ukrainian War and Polish–Soviet War - Dywizjon Jazdy Ochotniczej (also known as Huzarów Śmierci i.e. Death Hussars) and Poznański Ochotniczy Batalion Śmierci.
  14. During 1943-1945 the Italian Black Brigades and numerous other forces fighting for the Italian Social Republic, wore various versions of skulls on their uniforms, berets, and caps.
  15. Although not exactly a Totenkopf per se, the Chilean guerrilla leader Manuel Rodríguez used the symbol on his elite forces called "Husares de la muerte" ("Hussars of death"). It is still used by the Chilean Army's 3rd Cavalry Regiment.
  16. The United States Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalions use the skull-and-crossbones symbol in their emblem.
  17. The No. 100 Squadron RAF (Royal Air Force) continue to use a flag depicting a skull and crossbones supposedly in reference to a flag stolen from a French brothel in 1918.
  18. The Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais, a special unit within the military police of Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, uses the skull emblem to differentiate their team from the regular units.
  19. Many United States Cavalry reconnaissance troops or squadrons utilize a skull insignia, often wearing the traditional Stetson hat, and backed by either crossed cavalry sabers, crossed rifles, or some other variation, as an unofficial unit logo. These logos are incorporated in to troop T-shirts, challenge coins, or other items designed to enhance morale and esprit de corps.


I know it's wiki but it's a good read. Long story short the skull has been an item of fascination for millennia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skull_symbolism
 
It seems to me skulls have a heavy association with youth music since the 60s. Especially the kind of music designed to annoy parents.

They also say "not well-read", but maybe that's just me.

Gaston
 
Sosa said:
That bondage pic is very unflattering.
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I think that guy's sleeping in a little fort. Some of that art has weird perspective issues. Not sure if deliberate.

They did get the tentacle skulls in though.
 
The only skulls I have on my knives are a couple of the KAI/Emerson collaborations and they are rarely carried.

I do like skull imagery though, having grown up some of my first skull images were Sinbad movies and Conan comics and I thought they were neat.
The only knife I can think of, that falls in this category, that I want to get is a CS Broken Skull and I'm not sure that qualifies as is only says skull.
 
Kwon Kwang said:
Skulls have decorated many of our fabrications since the dawn of civilization. They're not a fad. They're both symbols of death and of life. They might seem "edgy" to some, but to others the very concept of carrying a knife at all is the same.
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Well said, err, wrote!:thumbup:
 
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