Mystery butterfly I've found...

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cyclekarl

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Hello Ladies and Gents! This is my first post in the Balisong Forum. Can anyone identify this piece that I found among my father's posessions? http://kmorison.tripod.com/knifestuff/butterfly.jpg
Sorry for the picture quality! Since my father was stationed in the Philipines at the end of WWII (and for some time thereafter) I'm wondering... Please pardon my ignorance in this area!
 
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Any more info about it? Blade length, stampings, handle material, where purchased (Phillipines?) etc.

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Dave
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I bet Chuck or Snipe' can help you out on this one. Way over my head!

Looks like a nice collectible though!

Kind regards,

Sabo 29

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Thanks for the warm welcome, guys! As I mentioned, it may have been purchased around 1946-48 in the Philipines (or not) but it couldn't be any newer than 15 years ago. The blade is 1/8" thick and 2 7/8" long. The liner and bolsters appear to be some sort of brass, the scales have the look of plastic (kinda would rule out being older, huh?, and the pins in the scales seem to be brass (and are genuine pins, going through the liners). That's about all I can tell!
 
What design is on the blade?? From here the blade looks like a Parker/Gypsy (just cause the design on the blade looks like an eagle with a ribbon in it's mouth) but the handles look like a FHM (Filipino Hand-Made) with horn inserts. I'm not sure though.

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Cameron

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Looks more like a dragon than an eagle so it's not a Parker/Gypsy. My best guess is since he was stationed in the Philippines and he got it there that it is a FHM but the ingraving on the blade is new to me. Armand (and anyone else that lives in the Philippines)!! Have you ever seen anything like this?

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Cameron

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Note the simularity between this knife and a BUCK 110?
I rember reading about balis like this oh about five or six thousand BUDWISERS, I mean severteen years or so ago.
This is about the same time I also noted alot of import folding hunters in the BUCK 110 style around. Late seventies, early eighties, I most likely read about them in SOF magazine.
If I were to guess I would think that this knife is from that time frame. It is just a guess though.


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Later, Jim
 
I have never seen a 'decorated/engraved' fhm either now, back when I was a kid.. or in the WW2 takebacks fro,m Ebay.. strange..

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Well, it certainly is a curiosity! Thanks, Cameron and everyone who's helped out...Maybe someday I'll run across another one like it.
 
>>it may have been purchased around 1946-48 in the Philipines

For well over 100 years now, the Philippines has been a "Christian" nation. With a few Muslims, and a very few communists. There are not really any Buddists there. For the most part you see them in China. But you will see a dragon from time to time in Japan.

Sense the knife was purchased in the Philippines, right after ww2, then it must have been made as a result of the Japan occupation, that the Americans went there to liberate them from. Even Japan had a "secret" dragon society, that had it's presense in the Japan occupation government at the time.

The black material is horn. It does look very much like plastic, but it is considerably harder if you were to try and buff or sand it out. It's a very common material there, because they use the Carabao of animal to plow the land. Thanks, JohnR7 www.BalisongKnife.com
<img src=http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Harbor/4250/carabao.jpg>
 
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