Need help with identifying old Randall Made

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Would any appreciate help identifying the model of this knife and estimated value... Thanks!


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If you look on the back of the sheath it should have some numbers ie: 11 4. From the picture it looks to be either a model 11 or 23.

Dan in Kalifornia
 
marked 11 45. When I look up pictures of Model 11 they don't look like this, they look much lighter. This is thick, heavy knife, the end of the handle is 1.25" in diameter. How come it looks different? Is it older?
 
Yeah, I can't tell a thing from that photo, other than that it's an 11. I don't know what photos you've been looking at, but it looks pretty typical of most of them.
 
looks different, the first site that comes up when I do a search on this model knife is A.G. Russell Knives. The Model 11 on that site does not look like this. It is listed as being 7 3/8" long. My knife is 9" long. On the site the weight is given as 6.7 oz, my knife is 9.2 oz. The proportions of the knife look totally different also. This is why I am say that it doesn't look like the Model 11 knives I see online. I have not seen one that looks like this.

I don't know why the picture is so small. It was not small when I put in on the host site. They must be compressing it.
 
Assuming that you've got an 11-4.5, your numbers for weight and length sound about right. Keep in mind that Randalls are hand made, and no two are ever going to be exactly the same.

A bigger photo would still be helpful, though.
 
This brings to mind a question I've had for a while. In pictures some Randalls look somewhat small and lightweight. Looking at the specs though they seem to be rather substantial.
Do you find them to be larger than they appear?
 
Pictures are only pictures. They're very substantial knives. A four- or five-inch-bladed Randall is kind of on the "small" side compared to everything else they make. That's a pretty good-sized knife.
 
He put it on ePay - it's a stock, well used, very late 1980's #11-4.5 in a Johnson smoothback sheath with the stone pocket cut off- it may be worth $300, maybe less...

p.s. We was used kids, El Pescador was just fishing...
 
"The stitching is all intact."
 
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