OCL Knuckle Knife

[Tony-in-NH]

Here is my favorite.

 

 

[svt40]

Here is my favorite.

 

 

That's a rare bird!! Wish I could find one of those along with a HD&S one for my collection

[gunbarrel]

Here is my favorite.

 

Mine, too!

[Greg Robinson]

That's a rare bird!! Wish I could find one of those along with a HD&S one for my collection

 

Me too. :0 But be careful of fakes. I know a collector in England who purchased one of those two rare makers (forget now which one it was) and it was a fake. He'd gotten it from a reputable dealer in London and they immediately refunded his money but it was still a dissappointing and stressful experience.

 

Greg

[cwnorma]

Greg,

 

 

Good advice in any case.

 

I have seen several fakes of the HD&S Knife, but very few of the OCL. Most of the HDS fakes are re-worked LF&C knives. Usually, the handle has been ground and filled and new markings applied.

 

The HD&S fakes are actually fairly easy to tell apart from the originals, once you have handled a few of them.

 

The OCL on the other hand, so few of them are known, that fakes of this knife haven't yet become a major problem.

 

One thing to notice is that the finger stalls on the OCL are distinctly different from the LF&C and HD&S knives.

 

Mike Silvey believes that only a handful of these OCL knives were ever made, and today, only about a half dozen or so have survived.

 

Here is a real HD&S from Frank Trzaska's website, and a link to more:

American Edged Weapons Museum--HD&S Knife

 

Follow this link to compare it to a real LF&C Knife:

 

American Edged Weapons Museum--LF&C Knife

This is a typical fake HD&S knife. Notice the flat sides where the faker has ground the LF&C Markings

 

Click this link to see more fake knives on Frank Trzaska's site:

Fake Mk 1 Knives

 

 

 

Chris

 

 

Me too. :0 But be careful of fakes. I know a collector in England who purchased one of those two rare makers (forget now which one it was) and it was a fake. He'd gotten it from a reputable dealer in London and they immediately refunded his money but it was still a dissappointing and stressful experience.

 

Greg