jw517 Posted February 7, 2016 Share #1 Posted February 7, 2016 http://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/151976475378 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw517 Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share #2 Posted February 7, 2016 It reminded me of a pilots knife I saw on here a bit ago but don't know what thread it was. It was a buy at 13.00 though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alec Posted February 7, 2016 Share #3 Posted February 7, 2016 Looks like a western, but notmarked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted February 7, 2016 Share #4 Posted February 7, 2016 Reminds me of the small Boker air crew survival knife that pops up on the forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted February 7, 2016 Share #5 Posted February 7, 2016 Commercial/unmarked version of the Boker 155? http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/256188-boker-155-air-force-survival-knife-help/?fromsearch=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw517 Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share #6 Posted February 7, 2016 YA! That's what I was thinking. Boker! Must be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doyler Posted February 7, 2016 Share #7 Posted February 7, 2016 Seller listed it as kabar? Just a guess on the Boker end.Has some like features to my eyes Kabar did have several small hunting patterns and I recall had things made in Japan as well under the Khyber brand that were good quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw517 Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share #8 Posted February 7, 2016 I saw it and I remembered the one I saw here. Thought it was KINFOLKS . Looks to much like Boker to be anything else though . Great shape and give away price made me buy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camillus Posted February 7, 2016 Share #9 Posted February 7, 2016 what ever it is it is a beautiful knife good find Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw517 Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share #10 Posted February 7, 2016 THANKYOU! I'm sure it at least a 250.00 knife.with my luck I'll get it and it will say China on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sactroop Posted February 7, 2016 Share #11 Posted February 7, 2016 Basically it's what is commonly referred to as a "Bird and Trout knife". For almost the last 100 years, virtually every knife maker produced there own version of this pattern. I suspect that it is likely made by Boker, because of the construction of the guard. This is similar construction to the guard that you do see on the confirmed examples of the Boker SAC Survival Knife. However this example is missing the blade stamps and the lanyard hole in the pommel that I'd expect to see in the SAC knife. The sheath does resemble a known sheath that Boker used in at least some of their commercial examples of the 155 pattern knife. But determining when a knife got matched up with a sheath it comes with is routinely problematic. The correct sheath for the SAC knife is reported to have been sourced to Major Burton T. Miller U.S.A.F. ,(thanks to Frank in his Knife Knotes vol.9) , I don't know if Boker provided them or if they were out sourced. Over the years there is a wide variety of small changes witnessed in the examples of the Boker 155. Boker is also known to have produced knives who's only markings were light etchings on the blades. A possibility why this one seems to be unmarked. IMHO, I'd need to see some provenance that accounts for the apparent discrepancies in this knife before I'd include it in the U.S.A.F. MIL-K-4988 category. Still looks like a solid knife. If it is a Boker USA ,which I suspect it is, it should prove to be. IMHO, the price paid is a bargain whatever is may eventually prove to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jw517 Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share #12 Posted February 7, 2016 Thanks sactroop. Looking at it closer I think it's just a knife and not military but when you see a Neet thing like that for 13.00 you have to make a fast decision or someone else will for you. I'll have to go get me a bird or trout I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sactroop Posted February 7, 2016 Share #13 Posted February 7, 2016 Hey at the very least it sure complements that Grizzly recurve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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