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Have ever seen a knife (of any type) that you wanted ... but knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that you didn't "need"? That happened to me the other day when I was nosing around in my local pawn shop. I bought a RR clasp knife (two firsts) - the fit and finish on this folder is better than average and the color of the bone isn't too bad either. This pulls about a 7 so it could be a user if you need a monster folder. Posed next to a "standard" large trapper.
I went in there looking for a large fixed blade that I could use as a "camp" knife ... found an ideal one for 10 clams. I thought it was a "recovered" carbon kitchen knife of some sort. The guys on the Levine sub-forum set me straight. I completely missed the "Broad Arrow" stamp on the guard - but that and the WE on the blade established its provenance.
A WW2 Aussie commando dagger! How it got to Western Illinois (Where Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa meet at the Mississippi) is a bigger mystery. When I told my wife about the history of my new camp knife she laughed! Her comment .... "You'll never take that camping now because its part of your collection - right?" After 38 years she knows me too well.
Scott D
I went in there looking for a large fixed blade that I could use as a "camp" knife ... found an ideal one for 10 clams. I thought it was a "recovered" carbon kitchen knife of some sort. The guys on the Levine sub-forum set me straight. I completely missed the "Broad Arrow" stamp on the guard - but that and the WE on the blade established its provenance.
A WW2 Aussie commando dagger! How it got to Western Illinois (Where Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa meet at the Mississippi) is a bigger mystery. When I told my wife about the history of my new camp knife she laughed! Her comment .... "You'll never take that camping now because its part of your collection - right?" After 38 years she knows me too well.
Scott D
