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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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2021 CalendarPermalink Reply by J.J. Smith III on January 4, 2013 at 16:00

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.

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FeaturedPermalink Reply by Craig Henry on January 4, 2013 at 16:40

Interesting JJ. Bernard Levine lists York as an Importer.

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Permalink Reply by james a c smith on January 5, 2013 at 14:58

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.

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on January 5, 2013 at 20:48

Excellent, cant wait to see them

Glad we found you some info....Thanks JJ

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Permalink Reply by james a c smith on January 6, 2013 at 12:58

I mistakenly called this a clip point, it is I believe called a trailing point, more for skinning purposes I presume.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hanner on January 6, 2013 at 13:02

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..

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Permalink Reply by james a c smith on January 6, 2013 at 13:13

$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.