What do I think? Thatsalotta money for a restrike. I save my money and eventually buy the real thing.   In my experience, restrikes of anything are easy to buy and hard to sell.     W

Ok, the 4 line is a later production and Buck made them with the Phrobis logo sooo this is the infantry bayonet and not the civilian one made by Buck.

I just received Loren Hinton’s footlocker which included his air medal. Do you have any of this info about him still? I can’t find anything other than the obituary of his wife. 

Just about 1 week away from the show.

Welcome to the addiction!   Chinstrap is obviously broken and that hurts the value a good bit, but I would pay $90 for this all day long.  Great price!

With the adoption of the new lightweight gas mask and its new M6-type carrying bag, the Chemical Warfare Service supplemented the bag's contents with two protective covers. This equipment was no longer supplied by the Chemical Warfare Service but by the Quartermaster Depot in Philadelphia. It was available from the end of 1942 in the QMC's effects catalog under the designation Cover, Protective, Individual and under stock number 72-C-1000 (Specification PQD No. 398).   Beginning in late 1944, the divisional quartermaster depots had a cover available for extreme cold weather conditions. The covers standardized in 1942 tended to break in sub-zero temperatures. This new material, which was supplied only according to climatic needs, is listed in the Philadelphia Quartermaster Depot catalog under the designation Cover, Protective, Individual, Cold-Climate and under the stock number 74-C-1100 (Spec P.Q.D. No. 396).   Note that the packaging of this cover is three times the thickness of a standard version.   I know 2 contracts : W-36-030-qm-2680 and W-36-030-qm-5233 (may 10 1944).

These are not my photos they have been provided and I have requested additional photos. I would typically just drive and take them myself but this is to far away. So what I know at this point is the liner is an original airborne liner that was produced by Firestone in the 1950s but the crap photos aren't helping us with the rest.

Thank you   A small town east/SE of Lansing a little ways 

Hamilton Metal Products closed their doors in the 1970’s. 

I found this M9 Phrobis 3 at a swap meet a couple years ago. I paid 100.00 for it and have been using it as a hiking knife. It never dawned on me to ask anything about it...ok, now I'm asking.