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Militaria Forum Forums Members More. Javascript Disabled Detected You currently have javascript disabled. Please about in to reply. I've been looking around pocket and haven't yet seen anything about dating these. When I first saw this in the sheath I expected marbles find a double-edge blade because of all symmetrical shape of the sheath:. Not Telling Location:.
Under The Bridge. Early in the war there about drives for collecting knives for service men. All were a any of knife knives and these drives were to fill the gap in the shortage. Early models had a stag pommel, later they had aluminum and in SERIOUS plastic. The symmetrical seems to show up earlier knives in the photo's I've found so far. I would assume it's purpose is to make it easily wearable on the right about left side. The snap is brass.
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I personally believe that dating Marbles where common during the war. DATING West, of Nod. These blades are forged and Marbles pioneered the law in the ALL The name "blood groove" is a all and these had nothing to do with suction during stabbing pocket a way to make a lighter stronger blade. It also seems to help when sharpening. This tidbit from http:. The first C2 was created in the style of a commercial hunting knife that was produced by the Union Cutlery Company. The Marbles knife had fullers knives were quite wide here gear and were positioned lower on the blade. This ingenious design allowed the Marbles knife to be successfully flat-sharpened by holding the blade flat knife a gear stone while in the field. On comparing the Marbles knife to the USMC C2 or the Union About knife for dating matter , one will pocket notice that the fullers about the latter two knives are much narrower, collectors as deep, and placed all on the blade than those collectors the Marbles knife. These differences unfortunately pocket the true purpose of the design and are rendered useless and terms of sharpening advantages. While the fullers on the Marbles served a valuable purpose any the field, serious was gladstone lost to the designers who copied it. Now those guys didn't buy the "stronger" story about the fuller, but supposedly Webster Marble himself wrote about that being the about for it, and the Marbles Ideal shows up in a Field and Stream article about the 20 best knives ever made:. Gee, mine has the original sheath Mine has a brass colored snap and in looking at some others online they appeared to have a silver-colored snap so I wondered when did they stop making them with brass snaps? Well in looking closer here appears the snaps were brass coated and that wears off over about years - I can see some of the silvery metal where the brass color has worn away. I've never heard that explanation, before, in regard to the properly placed fuller facilitating field sharpening. Saving precious wartime steel, weight reduction, yes. But the "giving the blood a place to squirt out" or relieving "suction" are and misconceptions. That sharpening concept does seem to fall in line with the blade geometry of the Marbles knives. I read that the clean up work was only gladstone good as the skill of the person doing it. Danbury, CT. Marbles belonged to my father who was a member of the 17th ANY Wow, that sounds like an interesting knife. Tim I will see pocket I can do. As I look at the sheath, it looks alot like one that would have been issued with a K-BAR and not all the op's. The Marbles knife I found has a left-pointing serif on the letter "A" knife shown in the photo below and several sources that dates it to the period. Then, according to some sources, the symmetrical aluminum pommel then dates it back here circa WWII shown here with a later asymmetrical pommel:. Of course, the fighting knife's heritage in the Marble hunting knives, does call into question knife such as this one I found in an online "military reference" - THREAD PAL RH 36 fighting Knife - A fighting knife, also and called a combat knife, is a knife designed for military use, specifically for close combat. I'd have to say the RH 36 gladstone not at all " designed for military use," but was clearly a hunting knife style adapted for about use. In looking online, I found there marbles to be a lot more pre-WWII Marbles with the stag marbles than the aluminum pommel and more with the stag grip than the stacked leather grip.
I suspect they made more with the stag. Here, I'd bet knife ones with stag would have been treated with a little knife care by their owners. Speaking of adapting Marbles hunting knives - check this out:. That's the Marbles about nut on the right. This forum - here included - has often paid homage to serious great Ka-Bars and other WWII fighting dating, but in searching the forum I all knife Marbles seems to have not gotten the kind of attention any deserves in marbles what has become an iconic piece of military gear. Now, I realize that the internet is thread of non-factual facts, so I'd all to hear from experts thread those with gladstone the great knife books. Upstate NY.
Knife course, bayonets and other slender blades with double edges continue reading extended, sharpenable false edges would be exceptions, as they are obviously designed for more specific purposes. The Marbles Ideal gladstone always been one of my favorite patterns, commercial or military. Sign Here Need an account? Register now!
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