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I was at the flea market this morning, and ran across a (Hallanger?) Shur-Lock knife. It's design incorporates no back spring. One simply unlocks a lever on the tang end of the handle that allows one to swing either one of the two blades out. Once a blade is out in full open position, one simply locks the lever again, locking the blade open.
It's handle is like a Douk-Douk or a Mercator k55k, meaning it has the same kind of stamped steel/folded to shape method handle. It is stamped with "stainless steel" on the frame, (other than that, no steel designation), and also stamped "made in USA". The entire knife seems to have simplicity and inexpensive manufacturing in mind, yet it seems well enough made for what it is.
I have the knife in my car as I post this, with me being out eating right now. I have not returned home yet from this morning's flea market excursion. Later I will post a few pics of this knife. It seems totally unused, and retains it's factory edge.
For $5, I could not pass up buying it for my collection. I have simply never seen one before, and being USA made, it will be yet another interesting knife to own.
Looking it up on the internet, it seems they were made during the 1950's. I was surprised to have found almost zilch about it online, and I'm hoping some of you fellas here will chime in with more info about it
The following was a pic I found online of the same model knife...

It's handle is like a Douk-Douk or a Mercator k55k, meaning it has the same kind of stamped steel/folded to shape method handle. It is stamped with "stainless steel" on the frame, (other than that, no steel designation), and also stamped "made in USA". The entire knife seems to have simplicity and inexpensive manufacturing in mind, yet it seems well enough made for what it is.
I have the knife in my car as I post this, with me being out eating right now. I have not returned home yet from this morning's flea market excursion. Later I will post a few pics of this knife. It seems totally unused, and retains it's factory edge.
For $5, I could not pass up buying it for my collection. I have simply never seen one before, and being USA made, it will be yet another interesting knife to own.
Looking it up on the internet, it seems they were made during the 1950's. I was surprised to have found almost zilch about it online, and I'm hoping some of you fellas here will chime in with more info about it

The following was a pic I found online of the same model knife...

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