Name : Robbins of Dudley Trench Push Dagger
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Description: This British manufactured Robbins of Dudley Trench Push Dagger and the other edged weapons they made were for private sale to troops heading in harm's way. The dagger has an aluminum alloy hilt with a steel knucklebow and a 5 inch blade. The appropriate Robbins of Dudley sheath accompanies the knife. References Flook, British and Commonwealth Military Knives p. 24, plates 32 & 33, Silvey, Knives WWII p.136
Name : Unmarked Aussie Knuckle Knife, Aluminum Knucklebow with 4 Spikes
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Description: This Australian Made Knuckle Knife has an Aluminum Knucklebow with 4 Spike projections. Knife has a cast aluminum D Guard with a wood grip and an 7 inch double-edged blade. Sheath is hand decorated with a large Kangaroo on the front. Reference is Adrian Van Dyk List # 114, #188.
Name : W. H. Messenger Knuckle Knife
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Description: This Messenger Knuckle Knife is marked MADE BY W. H. MESSINGER JACKSON MICH. on the front of the brass guard with an 8 inch wavy Kris blade made from a file, walnut handle and brass knuckles. The August Ziegler scabbard is marked PVT. FRANK MILBURN in gold on the black leather. This is the actual knife that appears in the Knife World, May, 1992 article and is shown in Cole's Book IV on page 164.
Name A. C. CO.
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Description U. S. Model 1917-1918 Trench Knife, Cole III p. 22-3, No. 3
Name AU LION
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Description U. S. Mark I Trench Knife Cole III p. 25-6, Type I
Name: Armand Koehn Knuckle Knife #7
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Description: Koehn sold fighting knives under the AOK Knives label. This Knuckle Knife is a modified US Mark I Trench Knife. The knife has a cast aluminum handle with the inner ear removed and the body painted in black & green camo. On the top of the grip it is stamped AOK KNIVES NO.7 and on the side in a raised casting is BY ARMAND. Blade is a 7 inch version of the 1918 Mark I Trench Knife blade. The leather scabbard is riveted in 5 places, painted in black & green camo also, and marked AOK KNIVES HAND CRAFTED BY ARMAND KOEHN. Reference for this rare specimen is Adrian Van Dyk List #114, #165.
Name: Aussie Small Cog Guard Ranger Knuckle Knife known as the Officer Model
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Description: This was another smaller version of the Cog Guard Ranger Knuckle Knife made in Australia for sale to the GIs. Knife also has a cast brass handle and a 6 inch Bowie blade that was paired with a brown leather scabbard. This smaller version is sometimes called the Officer Model. References are Cole IV p. 40 and Silvey, Knives WWII p. 73.
For sale: $850.00 | Contact?Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. 50th Anniversary Reissue Skull & Cobra Knife
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Description: This is Dad's 50th Anniversary Reissue Knife of 1995. It is marked serial number 1 and was given to him when the 50 knives were made in 1995. Sheath was specialty made by Ka-Bar for the reissue and is an exact copy of the WWII original issue scabbard.
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. Moorish Dagger
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Description: This Moorish Dagger as my father named it, has a blade that is forged from chrome molybdenum steel scavenged from Mitsubishi seaplane struts. The steel was difficult to work with and he used a twenty pound trip hammer to aid him. The dagger has a guard and crown type pommel cap made of Monel with the spiral grip being made of duraluminum alloy. This is a one of a kind specimen that he made for his enjoyment. For further information on this and other E. W. Stone, Sr. knives see our article in "Knife World" May, 2002.
Name: Everitt Knuckle Knife
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Description: The Everitt Knuckle Knife has a cast aluminum handle with a 7 inch blade with a narrow central fuller or blood groove. These commercially made specimens are seen in green and black but this one has the entire knife painted in black. Distinctive brown leather scabbard has 6 metal staples at the throat. References are Cole III p. 189 and Silvey, Knives WWII p. 124.
Name: OSS Knuckle Knife from 1873 US Springfield Bayonet
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Description: This specimen utilizes an 1873 US Springfield Triangular Socket Bayonet Blade and Scabbard with a piece of black rubber hose for the grip. The stamped knucklebow was made by Foster Bros. and welded onto the tang of the triangular blade. Leather sheath hanger and metal sheath are made from the 1873 cut down bayonet scabbard. Reference is Cole Book III, P. 163
Name: OSS Knuckle Knife with Long Patton Blade
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Description: This OSS Drop Knife has a 26 1/2 inch segment of US Model 1913 Patton Sword Blade with a grip made of black garden hose and a Knucklebow supplied by Foster Bros. spot welded into place on the tang. The remaining blade is 22 3/8" in length. Reference is Cole Book IV p. 172.
For sale: $400.00 | Contact?Name: OSS Knuckle Knife with Long Patton Blade
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Description: This OSS Drop Knife has a 26 1/2 inch segment of US Model 1913 Patton Sword Blade with a grip made of black garden hose and a Knucklebow supplied by Foster Bros. spot welded into place on the tang. The remaining blade is 22 3/8" in length. Reference is Cole Book IV p. 172.
For sale: $400.00 | Contact?Name: Taylor Huff Knuckle Knife or Universal Combat Knife
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Description: Taylor Huff received a patent for his knife on August 22, 1944. Overall length of the knife is 13 7/8 inches. Each knife was sold for 1 penny to a serviceman. Scabbard is made of 2 pieces of heavy brown leather and well constructed with a 5 inch flap at the top to protect the wearer from the sharp knucks. Reference is Cole IV p. 2, Type No. 1.
Name: Unknown or Unmarked US Knuckle Knife
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Description: This is a heavy duty fighting knife of one piece construction with grip slabs of black Bakelite secured by 14 star shaped rivets. Double edged bright spear point blade is 8 inches long and 13 inches in overall length. Heavy brown leather scabbard with buckle in the retaining strap. Reference is Cole IV p. 177 3rd down.
Name: A. C. CO.
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Description: U. S. Model 1917-1918 Trench Knife
Name: A. C. CO. U. S. Model 1917-1918 Trench Knife
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Description: American Cutlery Company U. S. Model 1917-1918 Trench Knife, Cole III p. 22-3, No. 3
Name: AU LION
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Description: AU LION U. S. Model 1918 Mark I Trench Knife, Cole III P. 25-6, Type I, Smooth Grip
Name: AU LION
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Description: AU LION U. S. Model 1918 Mark I Trench Knife, Cole III p. 25-6, Type II, Grooved Grip
Name: Aussie 3 Point C Guard Ranger Knuckle Knife
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Description: This Three Point C Guard Ranger Knuckle Knife was made in Australia. Handle is cast aluminum with a large Bowie blade. Accompanying the knife is the original scabbard. Reference is from Silvey, Knives WWII p. 71.
Name: Aussie 3 Point D Guard Ranger Knuckle Knife
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Description: This 3 Point D Guard Ranger Knuckle Knife was made in Australia. The handle is cast aluminum and features a large Bowie blade. Original scabbard accompanies the knife. Reference is Silvey, Knives WWII p. 72.
Name: Aussie Large Cog Guard Ranger Knuckle Knife
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Description: This Large Cog Guard Ranger Knuckle Knife was made in Australia for sale to GIs. Handle is cast brass with a large 9 inch Bowie blade and paired with a heavy leather scabbard to complete the package. References are Cole III p. 192 and Silvey, Knives WWII p. 73.
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. 1st Pattern Prototype Brass Knuckle Knife
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Description: This knife was made either on another USN ship in the Pacific Theater or in Australia by someone who had acquired a set of Dad's 1st Pattern Prototype Brass Knuckles. Once they had the brass knuckles as a pattern then they cast it onto a blade. This blade is stamped at the ricasso T1177 which was used in WWII for identification purposes by the owner. I acquired this specimen in Australia. It is a serious knife and weighs about 3 pounds!
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. 50th Anniversary Reissue Skull & Cobra Knife
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Description: This is my 50th Anniversary Reissue Knife made in 1995. It is marked serial number 2 and was given to me when the knives were originally made. Scabbard was specially made by Ka-Bar for the reissue and is an exact copy of the WWII original issue sheath.
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. 50th Anniversary Reissue Skull & Cobra Knuckles
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Description: This a test set of aluminum cast 50th Anniversary Reissue Skull & Cobra Knuckles. Made to test the pattern for the 50 knives made in 1995.
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. Pre-War 1st Pattern Prototype Brass Knuckles
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Description: This is a set of US Navy China pattern brass knuckles that Dad had modified from a crude set he was given by an old China hand Chief Petty Officer in 1939. Dad made these knuckles in very limited numbers for other sailors before WWII broke out. He did not make any knives with these brass pattern knuckles but others in the Pacific did make knives using this pattern in WWII.
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. Skull & Cobra Knife
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Description: Dad's original M3 bladed fighting knife that was made late in the war in the Pacific when the Army started to make its way out to the boonies with their US issue edged weapons. This is the actual knife that appears in Cole's Book IV on page 160.
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. Skull & Cobra Knife
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Description: This is Dad's personal Ka-Bar knife with the knuckles removed for faster access in combat situations since he found it was advantageous to be able to use the skull crusher if you couldn't get the blade into the Jap jumping in your foxhole. Even with a helmet on, the enemy could be slowed up with the skull crusher until you could get the blade working. Knife has the standard issue Ka-Bar sheath. Collar tab is from the first Jap Officer he killed. This knife is the actual knife illustrated in Cole's Book IV p. 161.
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. Skull & Cobra Knife
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Description: This is a knife Dad made for me for Vietnam by casting his handle pattern onto a US Model M6 bayonet blade. Scabbard is a US issue M8A1 scabbard for the M6.
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. Skull & Cobra Knife
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Description: This is another knife Dad made for me for Vietnam. Since I was partial to the US Model 1910 Bolo, he forged a bolo blade from a Studebaker leaf spring and cast his knuckle pattern onto the blade. Later, I had a friend etch a scene onto the blade. LF&C metal scabbard was late issue for the US Model 1910 Bolo.
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. Skull & Cobra Souvenir Scimitar
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Description: Dad made this knife aboard the USS Holland on the way back after the Japanese had surrendered. He made about 10 to kill time and amuse himself by making souvenirs for the sailors to take home for their kids to play with or put up on the wall as a remembrance. The knife has a 14 inch aluminum scimitar type blade with the regular Stone Skull & Cobra knuckles. For reference see Tactical Knives, Fall, 1996 in Gary Boyd's Column.
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. WWII Skull & Cobra Knuckles
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Description: This is 1 of the 10 sets of cast aluminum WWII Knuckles that Dad made during his time in the Pacific Theater. He did not make any knucks except early in WWII because the demand was for knives for the fighting men engaged in seizing the Japanese held islands in the Pacific.
Name: E. W. Stone, Sr. WWII Skull & Cobra Knuckles
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Description: This is 2 of the 10 sets of cast aluminum WWII Knuckles that Dad made during his time in the Pacific Theater. He did not make any knucks except early in WWII because the demand was for knives for the fighting men engaged in seizing the Japanese held islands in the Pacific.
Name: Experimental Knucks Knife Bayonet for the M16
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Description: All black knife made from an M7 bayonet. Right grip replaced with cast aluminum knucks that are internally marked but origin unknown. Said to be from a plant in Kentucky. Scabbard is the standard M8A1 issued with the M7 bayonet. Reference is Cole IV p. 110.
Name: Foster Brothers Knuckle Knife
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Description: This Foster Knuckle Knife has the identical knuckle guard that appears on the OSS Drop Knives and the tang is welded in the same spot. The bright 6 3/4 inch reversed edge blade is marked: FOSTER BROS. MADE IN U. S. A. and the wood grip slab is stamped FOSTER also. The original brown leather scabbard with the owner's name accompanies the knife. This is a rare specimen. This is the actual knife that appears in Cole IV p. 173.
Name: Gilbert Islands Shark Tooth Knuckle Knife
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Description: This knife was brought back from the Pacific Theater by W. E. Wichman, US Army at the end of WWII. The knife was hand forged with engraving on the blade with native mahogany slabs pinned in place with brass. A leather hand sewn neck scabbard with a similar pattern to the blade incised in the external leather. Stone's Glossary p. 365 shows the use of the shark tooth in knuckledusters in the Samoan and Gilbert Islands back to ancient times but this is more recent due to the steel replacing the actual shark tooth. Quite a formidable weapon in trained hands.
For sale: $500.00 | Contact?Name: H. D. & S. U. S. Model 1917-1918 Trench Knife
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Description: Henry Disston & Sons U. S. Model 1917-1918 Trench Knife, Cole III p. 22-3, No. 1
Name: H. D. & S. U. S. Model 1918 Mark I Trench Knife
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Description: Henry Disston & Sons U. S. Model 1918 Mark I Trench Knife with Issue LF&C Scabbard. Reference Cole III p. 22-3 No. 1.
Name: Indian Knuckle Knife
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Description: This brass handled Knuckle Knife was made in India for commercial sale. Handle was nickle plated. Blade is a reverse spear point with a primary edge and a short sharpened false edge. Brown leather scabbard is original to the knife. References are Flook, British & Commonwealth Military Knives p. 209, plate 505 and Silvey, Knives WWII p. 67.
Name: L. F. & C. U. S. Model 1917-1918 Trench Knife
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Description: This Landers,Frary & Clark US Model 1917-18 Trench Knife is the standard version with the 6 knob guard. It is paired with the optional leather scabbard as shown in Cole III p. 24. Reference for the knife is Cole III p. 22-3, No. 4, Type I.
Name: L. F. & C. U. S. Model 1917-1918 Trench Knife with Extra Knob
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Description: Landers, Frary & Clark US Model 1917-1918 Trench Knife No. 4, Type 2. This knife has an extra or 7th knob on the front and is a rarer model. Accompanying this knife is a Jewell Scabbard. Reference is Cole III p. 23, No. 4, Type 2.
Name: L. F. & C. U. S. Model 1918 Mark I Trench Knife
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Description: Landers, Frary, & Clark U. S. Model Mark I Trench Knife was the 1st maker to produce the model outside of France. Reference is Cole III p. 26, No. 2.
Name: Lockwood Brothers Trench Push Dagger, Broad Arrow Marked
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Description: This knife was made in England circa 1942 by the Lockwood Brothers under military contract. The aluminum alloy grip is marked with a CROWN BROAD ARROW 4 and has a double-edged blade that is 2 7/8 inches long. Knife is accompanied by the original scabbard. References are Flook, British and Commonwealth Military Knives p. 122, plate 276 and Silvey, Knives WWII p. 138.
Name: Messenger Knuckle Knife
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Description: This William H. Messenger Knuckle Knife ia an unmarked specimen. The 7 7/8" bright blade is made of Ketos steel which was used in anti-aircraft shells and was a special high carbon, high chrome steel that was very hard to work with. Some call it an early stainless steel formulation. Knuckle knife has a brass guard and knucks with a brown Bakelite handle. The scabbard was again made by August Ziegler in Jackson, MI. This knife also appears in my article in Knife World, May, 1992 and is the knife shown in Cole's Book IV p.165.
For sale: $3500.00 | Contact?Name: O. C. L. U. S. Mark I Trench Knife
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Description: This is an extremely rare Oneida Community Ltd. US Mark I Trench Knife that went into production about the time WWI ended and so only a few grips and prototype knives were manufactured. These knives did not have scabbards. The specimen has a 8 inch double-edge blade and the OCL brass grip. Reference is the Adrian Van Dyk Knife List #115, p. 8, # 56 and Cole Book III p. 26, No. 4.
Name: O. C. L. U. S. Model 1917-1918 Trench Knife
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Description: Oneida Community Limited made this US Model 1917-18 Trench Knife although their production numbers were low and an OCL is a rarer specimen. Reference is Cole III p. 22-4 No. 2. Accompanied by the issue Jewell Scabbard.
Name: Parsons Knuckle Knife
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Description: This Kevin Parsons Knuckle Knife has a aluminum cast handle and an M7 bayonet blade. Aluminum grip has been blackened. Scabbard is standard issue M8A1. Reference is Silvey Vietnam pages 127-9.
Name: Remington Knuckle Knife
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Description: This unmarked Knuckle Knife by an unknown maker who used a Model 1895 Remington Lee Straight Pull Bayonet blade has an Aluminum handle cast on and stamped with the numeral 2. Blade is marked REMINGTON ARMS CO. ILION, N. Y. Scabbard is the same as the issue US Model 1895 Lee Sraight Pull Bayonet. For reference see Cole Book IV p. 185.
Name: Richie USN CB Knuckle Knife
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Description: M. M. Richie a USN Seabee made this Knuckle Knife with a triangular tool steel blade 7 inches in length that rings when struck. A brass knuckle handle with 4 finger stalls was cast onto the blade and the S shaped steel guard. 3 steel pyramidal spikes were set in the knucklebow and the back of the grip was carved out to fit the bulldozer controls. There are no references as I obtained it from his widow.
Name: Small Aussie Knuckle Knife with blade marked AKE/REGD
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Description: Australian made, unusual, aluminum handle knuckle knife with blade marked AKE/REGD. Note original leather scabbard has USMC Globe & Anchor affixed to it. See Silvey, Knives WWII p. 63 for reference.
Name: Smiths NZ Knuckle Knife
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Description: Smiths Knuckle Knife made in New Zealand with an unmarked brass handle and a steel guard. Original scabbard accompanies the knife. Acquired from the original owner. For reference see Silvey, Knives WWII p. 66.
Name: Springfield Arsenal Knuckle Knife
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Description: All Brass Prototype of the US Mark I Trench Knife with a 1910 bolo blade. By this time the 1910 bolo had quite a following as a fighting knife. This is the all brass prototype that appeared in Adrian Van Dyk's List #115, p. 8, #61. Wild skullcrusher on this pattern from Springfield Armory. Also shown in Van Dyk's article "Knuckle Knives of WWI" in American Blade.
For sale: $2000.00 | Contact?Name: Springfield Arsenal Prototype Knuckle Knife
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Description: This cast brass handle US Mark I Trench Knife is a Springfield Armory Prototype Knuckle knife that has a faceted, elongated skull crusher integral to the casting. The steel 1910 bolo blade is nickel plated. This specimen is exactly the same as the brass tool room knife that came out of Springfield Arsenal also. Reference is Adrian Van Dyk List #115, p. 8, #61.
For sale: $3500.00 | Contact?Name: Stelzig Knuckle Knife
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Description: Nicely made Knuckle Knife with a black cast aluminum handle & guard. Grip is 4 1/2 inches long with a steel cap on the butt. Bright polished blade has a distinctive diamond shape 2 inches wide at the widest point and 8 1/4" long. Cartouche on the back of the scabbard belt loop is STELZIG SADDLERY CO. HOUSTON TEXAS. Owner has marked PHILIPPINES on the front of the sheath.
Name: Stelzig Knuckle Knife
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Description: Another well made bright tubular steel Knuckle Knife with a 7 inch bright blade with a double-edge that is integral to the handle. Grip is bright tubular steel 5 1/4" long with 4 stall knuckles. The heavy brown leather tooled scabbard is marked on the back of the belt loop: STELZIG SADDLERY CO. HOUSTON TEXAS. Owner has neatly stamped his name DOUG on the front of the sheath.
For sale: $700.00 | Contact?Name: Stelzig Knuckle Knife
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Description: A well made tubular brass handled Knuckle Knife with an 8 1/2 inch bright blade with a double-edged spearpoint. The tubular part of the handle is made from a 20 MM case marked WB 1942 20 MM MK-2 with a heavy brass knucklebow with 3 projections. The 4 1/2 inch handle was painted with OD green paint. The heavy brown leather tooled scabbard is marked on the back of the belt loop: STELZIG SADDLERY CO. HOUSTON TEXAS.
For sale: $500.00 | Contact?Name: Taylor Huff Knuckle Knife or Universal Combat Knife Type 2
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Description: This Taylor Huff Knuckle Knife is designated the Type No. 2 by M. H. Cole since instead of the aluminum slab handle this one has a walnut handle inlaid with a brass strip that is stamped MADE AT FORT KNOX KY. This is an earlier rarer version. For reference see Cole IV p. 2, Type No.2.
Name: Three Feathers Knuckle Knife
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Description: This well made WWII Knuckle Knife has an 8 inch double edged stiletto blade marked at the ricasso with 3 Feathers of 3 Fingers and finger grooved walnut handle. The brass D guard knucklebow has 3 projections. Overall length is 13 inches. This WWII Custom knife is illustrated in the Cassidy book on Knife Fighting. Knife also appeared in a Knife Digest photograph.
Name: Unknown & Unmarked US Knuckle Knife
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Description: This Knuckle Knife is possibly WWI or WWII since it has all steel construction with a triangular blade, steel grip and steel knucklebow with 3 spikes. The whole knife is painted black. Specimen is similar to one in Stephens book Fighting Knives p. 24, #80.
Name: Unknown & Unmarked US Knuckle Knife
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Description: This Knuckle Knife has a large aluminum hilt that has a knucklebow with 19 alternating teeth cut into it. The double edged spearpoint blade is 8 inches long. The scabbard is original to the knife. Reference is the Wright book: Military Theater Knives of WWII p. 80 middle, is a similar specimen.
Name: Unknown & Unmarked US Knuckle Knife 4
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Description: An Unusual Knuckle Knife that is unmarked and its origin is unknown with a cast aluminum handle. Has that Middle Eastern look about it and has the original pirate scabbard with it. Reference is Silvey Knives WWII p. 167.
Name: Unknown & Unmarked US Knuckle Knife 5
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Description: This Knuckle Knife has an aluminum cast 4 stall grip with 3 triangular points along the knucklebow and one at the butt to act as a skull crusher. The 3 points are similar in arrangement to the Aussie C & D guard Bowies but here we have the finger stalls. Blade is a heavy F/S type 7 inches long. The scabbard is original and marked CHICAGO BELTING CO. CHICAGO. Reference is the Wright book Military Theater Knives of WWII p. 66 bottom left similar.
For sale: $500.00 | Contact?Name: Unknown & Unmarked US Knuckle Knife 6
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Description: This Knuckle Knife has a cast aluminum handle with incused diamond checkering and 4 finger stalls with a triangular projection on each one. The bright blade is a 7 inch Bowie. Scabbard is the one that came with the knife. For reference see the Wright book Military Theater Knives of WWII p. 78 top 2 knives with different blades.
Name: Unknown & Unmarked US Knuckle Knife 8
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Description: This Knuckle Knife is unusual in that it has a steel frame for the handle with aluminum slabs held by 3 copper rivets with a brass guard and brass knuckles brazed to the steel frame of the grip. The blade is a 7 3/4 inch double edge spearpoint blade with the tang extending through the butt with a 1 1/4 inch pointed steel spike. Original scabbard accompanies the knife. Reference Stephens book Fighting Knives p. 59 for similar specimens.
Name: Unknown & Unmarked US Knuckle Knife 9
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Description: This Knuckle Knife has a brass cast handle out of what appears to be shell brass. The very unusual feature of the grip is the single finger stall and the Colt SAA butt. Blade is a 7 inch double edged spearpoint blade. Original scabbard accompanies the knife. There is no reference on this knife as I have never seen another like it anywhere.
Name: Unknown & Unmarked US Knuckle Knife, Robbins of Dudley Style
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Description: This Robbins of Dudley style Knuckle Knife has a cast aluminum handle with a plain D Guard knucklebow. The grip is very ergonomic. Blade is 7 1/2 inches long with an upsweep at the end. Original scabbard accompamies the knife. Reference Stephens book Fighting Knives p. 47 for a similar specimen.
Name: Unknown & Unmarked US Knuckle Knives 7
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Description: This USN shipmade Knuckle knife has a 7 1/2 inch double edge spearpoint blade. Overall length is 13 inches. The one piece brass handle was cast directly onto the blade and then plated. Original sheath is present with the knife. Reference Wright's book Theater Made Military Knives of WWII p. 48 for an exact example.
Name: Unknown or Unmarked US Knuckle Knife
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Description: This Knuckle Knife has a distinctive cast aluminum hilt pattern and is seen with a variety of blades. In this case, the blade looks like a heavy 8 inch F/S blade. Original scabbard is with the knife. Reference is Silvey Knives WWII p. 173.
Name: Unknown US Knuckle Knife with CW Blade
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Description: This Knuckle Knife features a 10 1/4" blade made from a US Model 1860 Cavalry Saber blade. Blade is marked at the ricasso: U. S., D. F. M, 1864 and on the reverse ricasso: EMERSON & SILVER, TRENTON, N. J. Handle is a cast aluminum copy of a US Mark I Trench knife made in France by Au Lion with the grooved back and is marked U. S. 1918. The skullcrusher nut has been enlarged and lenghtened. The original scabbard appears to have been fabricated from a bayonet scabbard with the mounts painted aluminum. Reference the Wright book Military Theater Knives of WWII p. 71, 2nd knife down.
Name: Unknown USMC Knuckle Knife
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Description: This aluminum handled Knuckle Knife has a 9 3/4 inch double edged spearpoint blade. The 4 finger stall handle is engraved: JACK F. TAYLOR U. S. M. C. LATONIA, KY. Original heavy brown scabbard is stamped on belt hanger U. S. M. C. JACK F. TAYLOR. There is no reference book on this knife but I have another specimen just like it marked with both the owner and maker names.
For sale: $650.00 | Contact?Name: Unmarked Aussie Knuckle Knife
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Description: Unmarked Australian Made aluminum handle Knuckle Knife with blued 6 inch spearpoint blade and original heavy duty leather scabbard. See Silvey, Knives WWII p. 64 for reference.
Name: Unmarked Aussie Knuckle Knife similar to American Everitt
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Description: Unmarked Aussie Knuckle Knife with aluminum hilt cast onto blades made from Pattern 1907 bayonet blades shortened to about 7 inches. Specimen has some resemblence to the American Everitt Knuckle Knife. Complete with original leather scabbard. Reference is Flook, British Commonwealth Military Knives p. 167, plate 391.
For sale: $500.00 | Contact?Name: Unmarked Aussie Knuckle Knife with 2 Finger Stalls and 7 Point Guard
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Description: Recorded to be of Australian origin by both Hughes and Stephens; made during WWII but no other information. The aluminum alloy Knuckleduster hilt is cast onto a 7 1/2 inch double- edged blade. Has traces of green paint on knuckles. Reference is Flook, British & Commonwealth Military Knives P. 167, plate 389.
For sale: $800.00 | Contact?Name: Unmarked Aussie Knuckle Knife, Aluminum D Guard, Incused Checkering
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Description: This Australian Made Unmarked Knuckle Knife has a heavy Aluminum D Guard with rare incused checkering. The cast aluminum handle has a 6 1/2 inch double-edged blade. Came in a US M8 scabbard. Reference is from Stephens, Fighting Knives p.54, #259.
For sale: $750.00 | Contact?Name: Unmarked British Knuckle Knife Type attributed to Several Makers.
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This British made commercial Knuckle Knife was a Popular Style that was known to have been made by Clement, Hibbert and Sons, and George Ibberson in both marked and unmarked varieties. It has a slim reversed edge, Bowie blade of 5 inches in length and aluminum knuckles with either ebony or Bakelite grips. Thje original scabbard accompanies the knife. For reference see: Flook, British and Commonwealth Military Knives p. 23, plate 30 and Silvey, Knives WWII p. 142
Name: W. D. Wilcoxson Knuckle Knife
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Description: This Wilcoxson Knuckle Knife has a cast aluminum handle that is marked on one side: MADE BY W. D. WILCOXSON and on the reverse side GORDON J. WOLFE O-833655 AUG. 15 1944. The blade is a bright double edged spearpoint that is 10 1/2 inches long with a swell in the middle. Original heavy brown leather scabbard is marked CLEARHIDE that indicates the sheath was probably made from factory leather belting. Mr. W. D. Wilcoxson was a resident of Terre Haute, Indiana and made these knives at a factory there during WWII.
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