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The wife stoped at a large flea mkt. yesterday. I found this
pocket knife and ended up buying it, I paid too much, $50.
The old knifes blueing is pretty good.
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There's something about the character that you find in an old carbon-steel knife, isn't there? I like the blade shapes of that one. What's the make, if you can tell?
 
HDHIC, your is the navy model. This can be told by the bail. Army air corp survival knives didn't have the bail. The navy version was issued with a green canvas pouch. The vast majority of these were made by Colonial. It is nice to see one with the hacksaw blade intact. These were fragile blades and often broken.
 
Yes it is a WWII Navy survival kit knife.
Built by Colonial and United. They have a big strong looking main blade.
Lots of times the saw is broken.
And they tend to come apart.
 
If you ever want to actually wear and use your new "pocket knife". Beretta makes a magazine pouch that is black leather, and very close in appearance to the Buck folding hunter sheath. I have one of these knives without the bail, and a broken saw blade, I have been tempted to weld in a wood blade from a sawzall, and use it as a survival knife again.
 
I've had mine for about 15 years and paid $40.00 for it. Mine is without acceptance marks and is the Navy model. When I bought mine there were 2 with USN stamped for $10 (25%) more and one with USMC for $20 (50%) more. These were in very good condition (no broken blades and the main blade sharpened but still in original shape.) Knives with broken saws were about $25 regardless of model or marking. I have never seen the pouch, and assume most people carried them in a pocket, but they'll pull your pants down in a hurry. Ivan
 
Ivan the Butcher said:
I've had mine for about 15 years and paid $40.00 for it. Mine is without acceptance marks and is the Navy model. When I bought mine there were 2 with USN stamped for $10 (25%) more and one with USMC for $20 (50%) more. These were in very good condition (no broken blades and the main blade sharpened but still in original shape.) Knives with broken saws were about $25 regardless of model or marking. I have never seen the pouch, and assume most people carried them in a pocket, but they'll pull your pants down in a hurry. Ivan
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I have collected antique military knives for a few decades now and have seen many of these and have owned a number of them. I have never seen or read where they had any acceptance stamps or military branch marking. Cole's books do not list such markings either. Makes me wonder if this was done after the war to liven up sales. A few weeks ago I posted a thread called "Even more war knives". In this thread I showed a few of these knives with their green cases. As I understand it, these were attached to their parachute harness. The army air corps had their knives in a survival kit. I don't think anyone actually carried one around all day.
 
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