Do you have a close up picture of the numbers and pommel?Ken
Ken you identified my knife. But before the Recon Bowie but what was the letters. Bsr or what. And have you found any about the number on the top of the pomel.099.
Your knife is SOG Model SBR-80.
It was manufactured by Kinryu Corp, Seki Japan, which is no longer in the knife manufacturing business since 2016/17.
It is said that the first 100 knives made had numbers on their pommels. Besides that, there is no difference between them and all the unnumbered ones.
At one point Kinryu could not meet production and subcontracted to G.Sakai to manufacture the same SBR-80 REcon Bowies in smaller numbers.
From what I can tell, the only difference was that those shipped with a brown sheath instead of the black one like you have.