Mystery Knife Identification

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IdaDave

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Hello all,
Definite newbie here, so be gentle with me.
I was curious if anyone could identify the brand of this knife.
It has no markings on it whatsoever - I'm guessing it was manufactured in the 1950's, or 1960's.
Anyone?



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IdaDave said:
Hello all,
Definite newbie here, so be gentle with me.
I was curious if anyone could identify the brand of this knife.
It has no markings on it whatsoever - I'm guessing it was manufactured in the 1950's, or 1960's.
Anyone?
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My guess would be similar. There was an influx of inexpensive German-made hunting knives in that time period.
 
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It looks a little nicer than this, in my opinion:
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This design could be US, German or Japanese manufacture. Without any marks or clues its all bit of a guess.
I have a gut feeling that the sheath may not be original to that knife. It's a European, not Oriental dragon, both
of which seem a bit odd for a hunting knife.
If it is made in Japan I would speculate Tak Fukuta who made all the Ka-Bar Seki knives.
 
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The handle looks well done, and from the 50’s/60’s. Yet somehow the blade looks cheaper and not as well done.
The sheath definitely looks to be not original to the knife.

how is the pommel held on? Is there a visible nut? Or pin? A picture of that may speak volumes about the knives origin.
 
Looks like it's seen a sharpening stone.........
Unsure who made it looks like a knife well used and taken care of......
 
BillZee said:
Looks like it's seen a sharpening stone.........
Unsure who made it looks like a knife well used and taken care of......
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Oh man...
Well used, but definitely not taken care of!
It's one that my father had and when he passed away, I threw it in a storage box for the better part of twenty years.
The bevel looked like someone had tried to sharpen it with a bench grinder and it had a pretty decent coating of surface rust.
I've done some work on it.
 
eveled said:
The handle looks well done, and from the 50’s/60’s. Yet somehow the blade looks cheaper and not as well done.
The sheath definitely looks to be not original to the knife.

how is the pommel held on? Is there a visible nut? Or pin? A picture of that may speak volumes about the knives origin.
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I hadn't even thought about that.
I'll dig it out and take a look at it.
Thanks for the reply!
 
KenHash said:
This design could be US, German or Japanese manufacture. Without any marks or clues its all bit of a guess.
I have a gut feeling that the sheath may not be original to that knife. It's a European, not Oriental dragon, both
of which seem a bit odd for a hunting knife.
If it is made in Japan I would speculate Tak Fukuta who made all the Ka-Bar Seki knives.
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I thought the same thing with the sheath.
The weird thing is, it fits the blade perfectly.
 
eveled said:
The handle looks well done, and from the 50’s/60’s. Yet somehow the blade looks cheaper and not as well done.
The sheath definitely looks to be not original to the knife.

how is the pommel held on? Is there a visible nut? Or pin? A picture of that may speak volumes about the knives origin.
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There's no visible pin - must be pinned to the tang underneath the leather stack.
 
Sheath is maybe Swedish based on shape. They did a lot of round nosed sheathes, sometimes with artwork and metal. The grind, etc.... also reminds me of the Brustello blades they were doing for Morseth.

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