Ive read this name elswhere during my research on this knife. Major McNary. It is vauge but its a start. Here is a link to where I found the name this time. Do a search on the Mark I and it will most likely come up. http://plowshareforge.blogspot.com/2006/10/festive-trench-knife-season.html
There are many websites online retailing the US 1918 Trench knife with Brass Knuckles: * http://www.extremely-sharp.com/es/catalog/30021.html * http://www.trueswords.com/1918-trench-knife-p-2846.html
Mark Spitz swam for the US.
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The submachine gun. Really, these are machine pistols, because they fire the same ammunition as pistols. Colonel Thompson invented the Thompson Sub-Machine Gun ("Tommy Gun") as a "Trench Broom", but the design was perfected too late for the weapon to see service in the war. It fired the same powerful .45 caliber ACP cartridges as the standard US sidearm, the Model 1911 Colt Automatic Pistol.
Potato Chips were invented in the United States.
There are many websites online retailing the US 1918 Trench knife with Brass Knuckles: * http://www.extremely-sharp.com/es/catalog/30021.html * http://www.trueswords.com/1918-trench-knife-p-2846.html
Probably not. Most of the replica knives do not have the "LF&C 1918" beneath the "US 1918" However, better fakes of this knife have surfaced. The only way to be certain is to have a military knife collector look at it for you.
yes, brass knuckle trench knife made by L&FC (I think) in the US. Knuckle knife dated 1918. Although knuckle portion was removable, it generally was not taken apart. It was carried in a scabbard made for the knife. It is a collectable item...............
There was a trench knife issued to US Army troops that was a knife that had a "Brass Knuckles" handle. Brass Knuckles is a brass "ring" that you slip over your hand, each finger going into a loop. This is used for hand-to-hand fighting. The knife had this same construction as part of the handle/grip. I'm not sure if this was an official Army issue. The Army preferred the soldier carry a bayonet that would fit onto the rifle. This brass knuckle trench knife couldnot do this.
Take it to a collectors show. They are more than happy to show you if they think you were scammed. to start with, look for "LF & C" stamped on the knife. Repros say some other company. Replicas worth $25 are marked US 1918 on the brass handle.
The Trench Knife was created in WWI for the specific needs encountered at close quarters. A rifle with attached bayonet is of little value once the attacker is actually inside the enemies trenches. This environment is better suited to a meat cleaver, a short club or a handgun. The studded brass knuckle US Mark I Model 1918 was designed for use in the trenches and is often seen in the movies, but it failed to get to the troops before the Armistice. The actual blade used was called knuckle duster, and it was a wooden handeled stiletto with a rolled steel handguard, the U.S. M1917. The UK's trench knife was also a classic double edged stiletto, but it lacked a handguard. This was the F-S Fighting Knife which was called the commando knife in WWII and is still in use by the Royal Marines.
No, Ellie's knife is not a butterfly knife. It is a switchblade.
Along the southern coast of Alaska is the Aleutian Trench.
It was originally invented by Carl Elsener.I looked this up on google and found out:The Swiss Army knife (French: Couteau suisse, German: Schweizer Offiziersmesser: "Swiss officer's knife", Italian: Coltellino svizzero) is a brand of pocket knife or multi-tool manufactured by Victorinox AG and Wenger SA. The term "Swiss Army knife" was coined by US soldiers after World War II due to the difficulty they had in pronouncing the German name.
There are two possible answers:A knife made by the KA-BAR company.A particular style of Bowie knife used by the US Military.
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Hard to say what the 1918 OCL trench knife is worth because they are so rare. It's believed only a few dozen exist and many of them are just the brass handles with no blade. I believe the ones with blades are much more rare than the ones without and depending on condition they could easily bring well over $2,000 if the blade is original to the knife. Beware of fakes. The ones without blades would probably be worth half that.