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found an old knife in a pawnshop(cheap). It's a fixed blade clip point bowie, 5 1/2" blade, with fuller, stacked leather handle. has 545 stamped on one side, and York Cutlery Co solingen germany on the other. been searching web for a while, and cannot find any info, just some ebay auctions of similar styles. Anyone familiar with this company or this knife, history, etc. I'll try to get a pic on here later tonight. thanks
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Found some information here-
http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/702191/
and here-
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/667663-My-friend-t...
Hope it will help with the info.
Interesting JJ. Bernard Levine lists York as an Importer.
cool, thanks for the links, the one I actually remember looking at but did not read far enough down, figures...so it is most likely a German made, of unknown manufacture, imported by a german american some time between the 50's and 70's.
Well it tells me something, york cutlery is not a manufacturer, but an importer of quality german knves. cool...
I still intend to post some pics, just been busy today.
Excellent, cant wait to see them
Glad we found you some info....Thanks JJ
Exactly James, it is commonly called a skinner with that up-swept tip. Also notice the rather large blood groove in the blade Looks to be a fine piece of cutlery. Congratulations..
$5 in a local pawnshop, I figured looking at it that is was an older one, and of decent quality, they had $10 on it, I offered 5 and took it home. it was a bit more rough than you see here, 600 and 1500 grit sandpaper and a wood and leather block took a lot of the damage out. I'm going to leave it like it is now though, try it out on a few things and put it up with my Ka-bar.
For $5, I would say you got a great deal!
That's a cool old knife! Very classic looking.
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