Id Please - Garage Sale Knife.

[Benbuck6]

Found at Garage sale - Any idea please.

 

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[DCMatt]

Good eye at the garage sale! It has that "fraternal order" look about it. I assume the other side looks the same?

DCMatt

 

[Benbuck6]

yes - she said she had a step uncle that died and left a lot of stuff nobody wanted. He was a special-forces officer (she said paratrooper, ranger, seal, something) she did not know. maybe just a knife collector though.

 

[Monty]

How big is that thing? It's about a foot long on my monitor. Monty

 

[Benbuck6]

Yeah I haven't learned how to reduce pics yet. It is a larger knife though - I would day 9 to 10.

 

[sofasurfer]

Open your pic in GIMP or photoshop. Under menu>image, click on "scale image". Play with that and learn. Basically, just cut the number of pixels in half and the picture will be half size.

 

[Copperhead]

here ya go..

 

[Red James Cash]

How long is the blade? It reminds me of the blades that use to come out around Jim Bowies era.Like the fore runners of the arkansas tooth pick.

 

[mojjax]

Beautiful Knife , How much u pay for it ?

 

[Benbuck6]

K - called the lady who sold the knife just to ask her if she had anything else like this knife - I might be interested in more stuff. She had nothing else - but I found out a little more. It was her GREAT Uncle's who died when he was 81 and that was about 20 years ago. It was given to him by his grandfather before he died. Nobody knows when or where the GrandFather got the knife. It is 10.5 inches long. The blade is 5.75 inches long. I have the case as well and it is in GREAT shape. She was happy someone cared enough to try and track down it's history. I promised her that if it turned out to be valuable I would not sell it and make money off of it but pass it down to one of my kids.

BTW - I paid $30 - a little high for garage sale but I think worth the money.

 

[moondog2000]

It might be WW1 trench art judging by the age of the men. I collect WW1 militaria and I have never seen a knife like this but I have seen workmanship like this come out of the trenches. The cross inlay is not a Christan cross but some thing belonging to a Nordic country. I believe I have seen that cross used by the Germans in some of there trench art. not all there crosses looked like a Maltese cross. If you could find out if grandpa was in WW1 I would strongly believe it came from over there. This is all my 2 cents, I hoped I helped you a little. Mike

 

[BttleDiggerDrew]

It might be WW1 trench art judging by the age of the men. I collect WW1 militaria and I have never seen a knife like this but I have seen workmanship like this come out of the trenches. The cross inlay is not a Christan cross but some thing belonging to a Nordic country. I believe I have seen that cross used by the Germans in some of there trench art. not all there crosses looked like a Maltese cross. If you could find out if grandpa was in WW1 I would strongly believe it came from over there. This is all my 2 cents, I hoped I helped you a little. Mike

I may just be a WWI knife, because like you I collect Militaria, although WWII items. However, it may also be a ceremonial knife from an org. like the masons.

 

[randazzo1]

Nice knife - more pictures please! Hand looks like early 19th century clothing. Is the hand applied brass or is it inlaid - also the other symbols are they metal or some kind wood/bone. Very cool whatever it is. I'm thinking 19th century just based on look, but I know nothing this stuff.

Do you know if the blad is iron or steel?

Nice find.

Randazzo1

 

[ole_grisley]

looking at the top pic is there any markings on it or is a trick of the light?
as it looks like something between the pin and the finger saver by the blade?
in the pic it looks almost like arabic or if there what is the markings?

 

[diggummup]

Nice knife - more pictures please! Hand looks like early 19th century clothing. Is the hand applied brass or is it inlaid - also the other symbols are they metal or some kind wood/bone. Very cool whatever it is. I'm thinking 19th century just based on look, but I know nothing this stuff.

Do you know if the blad is iron or steel?

Nice find.

Randazzo1

I was thinking the same thing about the clothing on the hand, maybe even earlier. It's a sweet looking knife but I don't know anything about antique knives either. Ditto on the other comments and questions.

 

[moondog2000]

Now that you mention it , that one inlay sorta looks like a hand. maybe some sort of Mason code for all we know. They are probably laughing at us right now and at the same time planning a raid to get it back. Glad its not in my posesion LOL Mike

 

[paratrooper]

IF that is a hand ..... it has too many knuckles . Since 5 are showing it would mean that with counting the thumb (unseen) there are 6 fingers .

 

[moondog2000]

I only see 5 appendages on what looks like a gauntlet glove. looking at your avatar I think your the guy to say yay or nay on this knife. Mike

 

[Benbuck6]

I will post more pics tomorrow (i get a day off and the kids and I are going MD'ing), hopefully with some other finds. K - Looking really close at the glove and hand though. It is right handed, five appendages, and just noticed that the thumb and index fingers look to be BOTH pointing up. There is a small "x" that I just now seeing on the base part of the blade (the wider part of where the handle meets the blade). The leather sheathing it was in appears newer than the knife when I look at it. Could have been a replacement.

 

[ole_grisley]

I keep looking at the pic and it looks like there is some lettering? there right by the
pin that holds the handel to the blade. is there or is a trick of the lighting?
here is a pic of the area I am looking at.