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robertlupus84 said:
CarboTi numbered Set

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Those are beautiful!
 
New arrival from maker Riaan Ras. The Eclipse. Had some Delana dots in place of nail nick, along with some really nice rad/black micarta. Shows nicely in the right light. Very hard to get that light for pics, lol.
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Just aquired this one. Before buying I tried to research the maker and couldn't find anything at all about them. Complicating searching is a current U.S. brand that sells "Blackhawk" knives, and a maker with kitchen cutlery called TUO that also uses "Black Hawk" in a series.

The seller did point me to an old posting on a gun forum by someone with a likewise stamped knife. They posted photos which clearly showed the same maker's stamp. But it looked like a smaller knife with a thinner guard and no pommel. There were two responses basically at the same dead end as far as maker information. The OP then posted:

"..... Yes thanks I searched pretty hard an the ones at worthpoint come closer to any thing I found this blade came from germany an was taken off a German soldier my cousins Grandfather Brought it home from ww2 I was hopeing to find somthing out about the maker...."

They are not especially rare as there are a few floating around for sale - most indicating Pre-War and WW2 time period.

So I am guessing that this one could well have been a WW2 bring back. It is not the original sheath as far as I can tell. The "knights helmet" pommel is aluminum.

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RPZIP said:
Just aquired this one. Before buying I tried to research the maker and couldn't find anything at all about them. Complicating searching is a current U.S. brand that sells "Blackhawk" knives, and a maker with kitchen cutlery called TUO that also uses "Black Hawk" in a series.

The seller did point me to an old posting on a gun forum by someone with a likewise stamped knife. They posted photos which clearly showed the same maker's stamp. But it looked like a smaller knife with a thinner guard and no pommel. There were two responses basically at the same dead end as far as maker information. The OP then posted:

"..... Yes thanks I searched pretty hard an the ones at worthpoint come closer to any thing I found this blade came from germany an was taken off a German soldier my cousins Grandfather Brought it home from ww2 I was hopeing to find somthing out about the maker...."

They are not especially rare as there are a few floating around for sale - most indicating Pre-War and WW2 time period.

So I am guessing that this one could well have been a WW2 bring back. It is not the original sheath as far as I can tell. The "knights helmet" pommel is aluminum.

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Its marked in English, not intended for the home market. There were many bowie type knives imported under a lot of different brand names in the the 1950s - 1970s.
 
Arathol said:
Its marked in English, not intended for the home market. There were many bowie type knives imported under a lot of different brand names in the the 1950s - 1970s.
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I thought that too. Except the only stated history of the brand I could find - with the same mark - was specifically dated to WW2. I would have doubted that, except the person posting was not trying to sell the knife, only looking for more info themselves.

The other issue is that not long after WW2 things were usually marked West Germany prior to reunification in 1990.
 
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RPZIP said:
I thought that too. Except the only stated history of the brand I could find - with the same mark - was specifically dated to WW2. I would have doubted that, except the person posting was not trying to sell the knife, only looking for more info themselves.
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Worthpoint isn't exactly a history site....and "somebody's cousins grandfather" is not exactly any sort of reliable provenance. More often than not stories get conflated, exaggerated, dates remembered wrong etc....
Black Hawk Germany was a brand name used by Cutlers Hardware of Wilkes-Barre PA post WW2.
 
Arathol said:
Worthpoint isn't exactly a history site....and "somebody's cousins grandfather" is not exactly any sort of reliable provenance. More often than not stories get conflated, exaggerated, dates remembered wrong etc....
Black Hawk Germany was a brand name used by Cutlers Hardware of Wilkes-Barre PA post WW2.
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I was born not long after WW2 I did not need Worthpoint to find out about postwar Germany. Do you have a source for the brand, as stamped on the knife, being used by Cutlers Hardware?

Incidentally, some German makers used English on their blade marks prior to WW2.
 
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Goins pg26....there are filings that date Cutlers at a couple different addresses in PA back to 1931.
Either way its an import, not a war souvenir.
German makers used English on blades sent to the US after 1890 when the McKinley Tariff Act required country of origin to be marked on all imported product.
 
I’ve been wanting to get a OTF again for awhile and then Heretic and Microtech both did cel shaded versions in my favorite color at the same time. I ended up getting both to compare. I’ve had Microtech OTFs but not a gen 3 and never a Heretic OTF. Both are really good but the gen 3 CT gets the nod. It’s so much smoother and nice to use than the gen 2.


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Arathol said:
Goins pg26....there are filings that date Cutlers at a couple different addresses in PA back to 1931.
Either way its an import, not a war souvenir.
German makers used English on blades sent to the US after 1890 when the McKinley Tariff Act required country of origin to be marked on all imported product.
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The Goins' hosted on a Knives Mag' website shows Black Hawk Germany in 1939.

I have learned on occasion to never say never. There were a lot of Germans living in the U.S. in the 1930s, and many of them packed their stuff and returned to Germany in the time leading up to the war. Soldiers on both sides of the war took gear from captives, and a single item might had gone either direction more than once. As far as imports and exports, I am sure as soon as the U.S. declared war with Germany shiploads of durable goods were suddenly stopped and kept for German use - in warehouses, enroute on trucks, trains and even ships already loading at the docks.
 
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RPZIP said:
The Goins' hosted on a Knives Mag' website shows Black Hawk Germany in 1939.

I have learned on occasion to never say never. There were a lot of Germans living in the U.S. in the 1930s, and many of them packed their stuff and returned to Germany in the time leading up to the war. Soldiers on both sides of the war took gear from captives, and a single item might had gone either direction more than once. As far as imports and exports, I am sure as soon as the U.S. declared war with Germany shiploads of durable goods were suddenly stopped and kept for German use - in warehouses, enroute on trucks, trains and even ships already loading at the docks.
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It would seem that you had decided what this knife is before asking. Your view of history is somewhat lacking. Congratulations on finding a rare WW2 German army knife......LOL.....
Goins says Blackhawk Germany A trade mark used by Cutler Hardware......
 
Arathol said:
It would seem that you had decided what this knife is before asking. Your view of history is somewhat lacking. Congratulations on finding a rare WW2 German army knife......LOL.....
Goins says Blackhawk Germany A trade mark used by Cutler Hardware......
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No, I keep an open mind. I bought the knife because I liked it,

The Goins' shows *1 9 3 9*

My view of history is fine thank you. Best sources are nearly always people who lived it, personal accounts, journals etc. Not coffee table books.

Have a great weekend
 
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