Daggers and Knives
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'Unknown Origin' (Possibly Italian ‘Arditi’) Heavy Fighting Knife in later Scabbard Sn 8424:49. - 8424:49 An 'Unknown Origin' (Possibly Italian) heavy fighting knife in a later scabbard. The Fighting knife has a one piece light wood smooth grip, the blade is secured with two bolts. It has a straight guard and polished steel double edged blade. The blade measures 7 ¼ " long and 1" wide at its widest point. This is a heavy duty fighting knife. The scabbard is later, and made of tan leather, it fits the knife perfectly and has a securing loop fastened with a brass press stud. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 8424:49. £225.00 |
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British Army Survival Knife and Leather Sheath. ED 2665 - ED 2665 Known as the 'jungle knife' this has become a classic. Also known as the tree slapper, Sometimes referred to as a Wilkie because these knives were once made by Wilkinson Sword before being taken over by Sheffield Knives, Nearly a quarter of an inch thick and 7 ¼ “ long with a one piece steel blade with full tang. They were built to last in Sheffield to UK Government specifications. Chemically blackened blade suitable for heavy chopping and even digging, supplied with riveted brown leather belt sheath. The wooden grips are held in place with 3 copper rivets with leather insets to absorb shock; they are over-sized as to promote protection against frostbite when being used in freezing conditions. The grips ae stamped ‘127 8214 JA 1993 with Broad Arrow. The blade has been re-sharpened and the grips and sheath are in very good condition. The price includes UK delivery. ED 2665. £195.00 |
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**BEST QUALITY** Carl Eickhorn German Hunting Dagger With Superb Hunting Scenes Etched Blade, Stag Antler Grip, Ornate Solid Silver Fittings & Scabbard. ED 2660 - ED 2660 This is an excellent Carl Eickhorn Hunting dagger. These substantial weapons were not only symbols of rank but were also carried when hunting large game such as Boar for self defence and to deliver the 'death blow' to the hunted prey. This best quality example has a solid Stag antler handle mounted on one side with a row of solid silver acorns. It has a silver clamshell on one side cast with a game bird sitting on a branch of a tree, Deer’s legs re-curving silver cross guard and silver oak leaf pommel cap with acorn top. All of the fittings are heavy. The fittings have crisp, deep cast decoration. Its 10" single edged blade has beautiful country hunting scenes on both sides and the back of the blade has oak leaf decoration. The blade is marked by the manufacturer ‘Eickhorn Solingen’ together with Squirrel trade mark. The sidearm measures 16 ½” overall length and is complete with its original black leather scabbard with solid silver mounts. The upper mount has a silver acorn shaped locket stud and the chape is decorated with the representation of a ‘Stag in the field’. The leather & stitching of the scabbard are clean & intact. The rice for this antique Imperial German sidearm & scabbard which would have been a very expensive piece in the period includes UK delivery. ED 2660 £1,695.00 |
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Decorated Spanish Toledo Dagger. 19830. - 19830 This type of dagger - known as the Spanish defence dagger - was made especially in the cities of Toledo and Albacete, from the 18th century until the beginning of the 20th. This lovely 14.25cm blade is decorated with scrolling foliage and etched with a panel ‘FABRICA DE TOLEDO’ its characteristic hilt is decorated with panels of scrolling foliage. It has a spherical pommel and is contained in its steel scabbard decorated to match. All in very good aged condition with a nice patina throughout. The price for this nice Spanish dagger includes UK delivery. 19830. (Drawers) £225.00 |
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WW2 Burma Campaign Chindit Special Forces, Fighting Knife / Combat Bowie (Slim Blade Variant) & Scabbard. Sn 19882 - 19882 The Chindits – officially in 1943 designated the 77th Indian Infantry Brigade and in 1944, the 3rd Indian Infantry Division were a British "Special Force" that served in Burma and India in 1943 and 1944 during the Burma Campaign in WW2. This is an original combat bowie carried by Chindit troops. These fighting knives were manufactured in India during WW2 and come in a number of variations (see page 206 plate 495 of Flook’s book British & Commonwealth Military Knives where a Chindit knife with the same narrow blade and same black leather scabbard as our example are illustrated). As is common with these knives there are no manufacturer or date marks on our example. The wood slab grips are secured to the Tang by 3 brass rivets. The grips are undamaged. It has a single edged 7 ½” long blade with correct Bowie type tip. The blade has staining consistent with age and is sharpened to a razor sharp cutting edge. The correct original scabbard is made of black leather, stitched along the seams and has a single belt loop to the rear of the scabbard. The scabbard has the correct leather retaining strap with eyelet and press stud fastener. The price for this rare Chindit knife includes UK delivery. Sn 19882 £975.00 |
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Victorian Era, Brookes & Crookes Sheffield Spear Point Bowie Knife With German Silver Cross Guard & Scabbard With German Silver Mounts. Sn 19827 - 19827 In 1859 the Sheffield cutlers John Brookes & Thomas Crookes appear in Melville & Co’s Commercial directory of Sheffield as manufacturer’s of knives and dressing case instruments. The Company had a warehouse, workshops, engine house & grinding wheel behind a house on St Philip’s Road on the outskirts of the cutlery making district of Sheffield. The workshop / factory was named the Atlantic works and was previously the address of knife maker Thomas Wigfall. The Company took advantage of the booming American market making Bowies for the British & American export (see pages 161-163 of The Sheffield Knife Book by Tweedale). This is an excellent Victorian Bowie Knife Brookes & Crookes. It measures 12 ¼” overall with a 7 ¼” spear point bowie blade which is sharp and has just light staining consistent with age. The ricasso is stamped by the maker ‘Brookes & Crookes Sheffield’ together with their ‘bell’ trademark. The excellent chequered polished Buffalo horn scales are undamaged and secured to the tang by German Silver pins. The cross guard is German Silver. The dagger is complete with brown leather open top scabbard with belt loop. The vertical edges of the scabbard have tooled decoration. The scabbard has a German Silver throat mount & chape. All leather and stitching of the scabbard are intact with just light rubbing to the leather consistent with age. The price for this excellent Victorian Bowie includes UK delivery. Sn 19827 £775.00 |
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WW1 Era Imperial German Fighting / Trench Knife By Gottleib Hammesfahr Solingen Foche & Scabbard With Integral Belt Loop. Sn 19835 - 19835 An original German WW1 Fighting / Trench Knife and scabbard with integral frog (see page 44 of ‘German Combat Knives 1914-1945’ by Christian Mery where a Gottlieb knife & scabbard the same as ours is illustrated). The knife has a blackened 6” blade with medial ridge and has an overall length of 11 ¼”. The blade is crisply marked "Gottlieb Hammesfahr Solingen Foche " on one side, the reverse has a small Imperial Crown Inspection mark. The grips are wooden with typical nine diagonally carved grooves. The grips are secured with 2 brass rivets. It is complete with its original metal scabbard which has traces of original black paint. The throat has a leather belt loop riveted to it. The belt loop has a single retaining strap with press stud fastener. The leather of the belt loop has service wear but is intact and secure. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 19835 £450.00 |
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WW1 Era Imperial German Fighting / Trench Knife & Scabbard With Integral Belt Loop. Sn 19834 - 19834 An original German WW1 Feldzug Fighting/Trench Knife and scabbard (see page 30 of German Combat Knives By Mery where a similar knife is illustrated and page 81 of the same book where a WW1 trench dagger scabbard the same as ours is illustrated). The knife has a 5 ½” long blade and re-curving blackened steel finger guard. One side with finial the other holed for wrist cord. It has an overall length of 10”. The grips are wooden with typical nine diagonally carved grooves. The grips are secured with 2 rivets. The blade has no visible date or maker markings. It is complete with its original metal scabbard painted black which has an integral riveted hessian / webbing belt loop with leather retaining strap and press stud fastener. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 19834 £395.00 |
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**UN-ISSUED**WW2 MK 2 U.S. Navy MK 2 Robeson Cutlery Company (RCC) Ka-Bar Fighting Knife With USN Mark 2 Grey Plastic Scabbard By BM Co (Beckwith Manufacturing Company & VP (Victory Plastics). Sn 19869 - 19869 This is an original un-issued condition WW2 era USN Mark 2 Ka-Bar fighting knife & Scabbard (see page 78 of the book ‘United States Military Knives Collector’s Guide By Silvey & Boyd). This example is in excellent condition. The grip is constructed of the correct compressed smooth leather washers, correct finger guard and has a pinned steel pommel. The guard is marked ‘USN MK 2’ and by the manufacturer RCC which is the Robeson Cutlery Company. It has a 7” parkerised, bowie blade with fullers. It is complete with its correct grey plastic scabbard with integral webbing frog and retaining strap with press stud fastener. The throat mount is stamped to the front ‘USN MK 2’ and the rear ‘NORD-8114 (stores code), BM Co (Beckwith Manufacturing Company) 1/6’ and ‘VP’ (Victory Plastics). All markings are illustrated. The scabbard is holed for thigh cord. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 19869 £395.00 |
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**RARE**WW1 French Model 1916 ‘Abourgad’ (Variant of "The Avenger of 1870") Fighting Knife & Scabbard. Sn 19873 - 19873 From 1915 the French began to develop trench weapons at the Châtellerault arms factory, with Lieutenant-Colonel Coutrot experimenting by converting existing military swords and bayonets into combat daggers. Several designs were decided upon and then sent to be manufactured by private firms. Despite such variety of knives being issued to French troops during the War, there was only one, the Modèle 1916, that received an official military designation. Given this fact, it is strange that the dagger was in fact devised by the cutlery manufacturer Astier-Prodon of Thiers, rather than Châtellerault. It was subsequently produced by a number of other civilian manufacturers to keep up with demand. Early models lack a metal reinforcing ferrule, to strengthen the connection of blade to hilt found on later examples. Some of the Modèle 1916 daggers are marked 'Le Vengeur de 1870' on the blade, referencing the fall of Paris and French defeat in the Franco-Prussian war. This is an excellent, rare to find French Model 1916 Fighting Knife. WW1 variants by French makers available to French troops are identical to the Avenger of 1870 examples but without the Avenger inscription, see page 29 items 109 & 110 of Fighting Knives by Fred Stephens where a similar Model 1916 / Avenger variant to ours is illustrated, with a scabbard identical to ours. Our knife by the French maker Abourgad has a 6 ¼” long steel double edged dagger blade with medial ridge and is correctly the same form as those found on European manufactured versions of the American pattern 1918 knuckle daggers. The blade is without Avenger inscription, the shank is manufacturer marked ‘Abourgad’, the name forming the pony tail of their oriental man’s head trademark. The flat, shaped steel cross guard has a small acceptance stamp ‘B’ and is numbered ‘558’ (the number 8 is double struck). The knife measures 10 ¾” overall length. The original solid wood grip has a flat, round steel pommel tang screw / bolt (the 2 tone colour of the handle which can be seen in the images is just grain colour variation not a crack or damage). The hilt has a metal ferrule at the cross guard indicating mid to late war production. The blade and grip are totally secure with no movement. The correct original scabbard is steel has correct elongated belt loop bar. The scabbard is stamped ‘383’ at the throat. The scabbard has some minor dents and scuffs to the original black paint finish consistent with age and service use. The price includes UK delivery. Sn 19873 £575.00 |
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