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David Lewis Smith
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 Posted: Mon 17 Oct, 2016 4:18 pm Post subject: knife-ish dagger-ish identification help please |
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A good friend of mine, someone I served with in the Army inherited a knife. The information he has is very scant. Basicly his Grandparents lived in southern California.....
Not much to go on
I have some ideas but I do not want to taint the opinions. I also have not handled the knife so I do not know much about it
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David L Smith
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M. Livermore
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Interesting knife. The hand holding a stylized dagger and the pike writing style of the inscription give it a link to tattoo art. I'd guess it was made by someone in the navy during WWII. The quality of construction seems like the maker may have had access to a lathe.
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Mark Moore
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I'm thinking it may be a Mexican-made knife for tourists, sold at souvenier shops. They made gazillions of these in various styles. The reason I say is because of the decoration on the sheathe and the way the engraving is done. I have a large, curve-bladed dagger with markings very similar. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's what it is............McM
''Life is like a box of chocolates...'' --- F. Gump
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David Lewis Smith
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| Posted: Tue 18 Oct, 2016 6:17 am Post subject: |
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| Mark Moore wrote: | | I'm thinking it may be a Mexican-made knife for tourists, sold at souvenier shops. They made gazillions of these in various styles. The reason I say is because of the decoration on the sheathe and the way the engraving is done. I have a large, curve-bladed dagger with markings very similar. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that's what it is............McM |
Close to what I am thinking.
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Timo Nieminen
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Looks Mexican (or possibly other ex-Spanish colonial). Southern California and "Viva la Union" is very Cesar Chavez and suggests 1960s or '70s.
"In addition to being efficient, all pole arms were quite nice to look at." - Cherney Berg, A hideous history of weapons, Collier 1963.
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David Lewis Smith
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| Posted: Tue 18 Oct, 2016 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| Timo Nieminen wrote: | | Looks Mexican (or possibly other ex-Spanish colonial). Southern California and "Viva la Union" is very Cesar Chavez and suggests 1960s or '70s. |
And that is EXACTLY what I think. I think it was a dagger or knife that someone carved those into. I had done some research and that came up. I am going to wait on more opinions, but I think you are correct Timo
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Timo Nieminen
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This is a standard topic
