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Unmarked small hunter

John, lets see if you can help with this one. Its a small knife, blade is 4" , handle 3.5". The blade is also very thin, 1/16" thick. The scales are real jigged bone. The blade has no marks on it at all, it has been cleaned by previous owner so it may have been etched and that is gone. So any idea who made this fine little knife?

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on December 10, 2015 at 17:24

To me Michael, unmarked may mean it was one of the many kit knives sold and put together

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Permalink Reply by Michael Squier on December 10, 2015 at 19:06

I guess it could be a kit, but I think it dates back to the 20's or 30's judging by the look of it and the scales. Did they make kits back then? I could be wrong though.

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In MemoriamPermalink Reply by John McCain on December 10, 2015 at 19:39

Michael- These were heavily exported from England and probably Germany back then. That is basically a common style England shipped in the "Bowie craze" days in the early 1900's. Yours is a bit unusual in the vertical wideness of the blade.

Dang near impossible to date, as this style carried on for years and years. I would guess English from the crossguard and overall appearance, but still just a guess.I may be semi-informed, but not psychic --LOL

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Permalink Reply by Michael Squier on December 11, 2015 at 7:42

John, thanks thats more than I knew before. I was guessing it was an import , I noticed the scales are the same jigged bone as on my german made Imperial, probably not an American cow, lol. How did they gat away with no labeling, I thought we had some kind of import laws that required made in ... ?