I found, in a small little museum in Mauritius, what I am going to call a historic Spyderco artifact. It's at the site of the first Dutch settlement on the island, circa 1650 and was found during an archaeological dig under the ruins of the French structures that can be seen today.
So here is the story. It's an early model fixed blade as evidenced by the small hole that was probably made by Rjik van Glesser, master cutler, when what was to be come the Glesser family was still plying their trade in Holland. The hole in the front of the blade appears to be the pivot hole to attach the second blade to form shears and thus identifies it as what is now known as the FB(S)02C (fixed blade (shears) 02 chisel grind) Seafarer.
These were fairly rare at the time and while fairly well preserved (50 yards from the sea and 350 years old) this piece appears not to have been made with an early variant of H1. The handle, were it still intact, would have the folding marlinspike, the other very popular feature of this knife. Blade length 3.25 inches.
The official story is that it is a musket component but I like my story better.
