Hello Everyone,

I am brand new to this site and it looks great and very interesting.

I am 44 years old, and my father passed away when I was just 16 years old.  My fondest memories were of him taking me camping and fishing, and he always had a cool knife on him, the same knife through the years.  I remember at the age of 10 or so him using it, so that takes it back to 1981.  I recently found the knife and wanted to see its vintage.

He may have told me that he obtained it from his father, which would make it extra special to me.

I looked at the tang stamp charts for Western knifes very carefully to compare them to mine, in hopes of knowing if this could have been my grandfather's knife before it became my fathers.  My knife is an L40 model, but the tang stamp is:

W E S T E R N

Boulder, Colo

     USA

I have not seen this tang stamp with the USA included on any charts, so if anyone knows what vintage this knife is, I would love to know.

Thanks in Advance,

Daniel

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