Marbles Knife? Any Idea Guys?

mrbear

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We stopped over to my Parents house today for my Dad's birthday. While I'm out on the porch cooking steaks on the grill Dad and I are standing there. He says to me, "Hold on a second I have something for you".
He goes into the house and comes out with this knife. He found it in the rafters of the basement while he was cleaning out some stuff making room and says, "Here you can have this. It's an old knife I found".
I've looked a little bit and from what I can find it's a Marble Ideal Knife.
Just wondering if anyone here has any more info on this knife.
I really like the way this fits the hand.
Posted as Off Topic here in JK Forum for any information. Thanks guys :)

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Like I mentioned this is Off Topic but this thing sharpened up SCARY sharp. I'm mean........wow guys.
 
Actually, the pre-WWII knives were 52-100 ball bearing steel.

I have an old Ideal. It came convexed, and yes, scary sharp.
 
I've read that the Ideal was one of Kephart's personal favorite production knives, next to his own design I would guess. Beautiful find!
 
outdoorsfan said:
I've read that the Ideal was one of Kephart's personal favorite production knives, next to his own design I would guess. Beautiful find!
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Only because Marble's convinced him to endorse their line of knives. Kind of like getting Craig Boddington to endorse Anza knives.
 
Only because Marble's convinced him to endorse their line of knives. Kind of like getting Craig Boddington to endorse Anza knives.
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Always interesting to hear the "backstory" behind the common one and I do not doubt it. Still, the Ideal is a classic blade design that has spent quite a bit of time in the woods.

I am not sure if the Anza/Boddington example is exactly the same though as Anza markets a "Boddington Tactical Hunter" knife and I have not heard of a Marble's Kephart. I would also guess that both received some sort of compensation for their support but that neither would lend their name to a shoddy product.
 
mrbear said:
Any idea on a date range for this one?
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i'm no Marble's historian, but i'm going to say that was made between "The Great War" and WW2.

the butt is aluminum, and prior to 100 years ago, aluminum was a semiprecious metal. and very precious in Napoleonic times..

after WW1 it became more common. during WW2 it all went to aircraft production.

i had a USN Mk2 knife with a very similar handle and butt even including the spacers.

so, wild guess i'm going to say it was made roughly between 1920 and 1941

but i could be way off and it could be a post-war knife.

nice blade. needs a decent leather sheath now.
 
outdoorsfan said:
Always interesting to hear the "backstory" behind the common one and I do not doubt it. Still, the Ideal is a classic blade design that has spent quite a bit of time in the woods.

I am not sure if the Anza/Boddington example is exactly the same though as Anza markets a "Boddington Tactical Hunter" knife and I have not heard of a Marble's Kephart. I would also guess that both received some sort of compensation for their support but that neither would lend their name to a shoddy product.
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lol--Colclesser (sp?) got to use Kephart's name.
 
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