New member and help ID this knife

[bmiller59]

Greetings and thanks for letting me join the forum. My neighbor has been a knife maker for many years, he had this in his collection, not one of his.
He offered it to me since I do a little diving, I assume it is a dive knife of some sort.
The sheath is plastic and has CHAEL III, Collins Bros, Atlanta GA on it
The knife has Valor Mustang with a horse on it's hind legs. I guess not so much ID'ing it as any history or other info.

Thanks in advance.

 

[whereismyknife]

Welcome to the forum. It is a knife produced for camping purposes rather than a diving knife. I found something like this.

 

[tltt]

The way it works out is the Chael III was the dive knife Walter Blackie Collins developed. The Mustang Adventurer was a line for line high quality copy that Valor made afterward, it's a line for line copy.

Here's the announcement for the Chael in 1973, The Valor came a couple of years later -

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Both are very hard to find.

 

[bmiller59]

Wow, thanks for the quick and very informative responses.

 

[knarfeng]

From another knife web site:

Valor Corporation of Miami Florida existed from the late 1960s until the early 1990s. In it’s time, it was a prominent seller of low cost firearms, ammunition, firearms related accessories and a large importer of knives from various Seki makers. While Valor’s knives covered a wide range of types, a few models were of high quality and stood out.

 

[KenHash]

From another knife web site:

LOL. I originally authored that on my site:

https://hattoricollector.com/2015/10/01/beretta-and-valor/

Which Fitzwilles and later AAPK copied verbatim. I have no issues with them though.