Cleaver Knife

The KA-BAR brand originated as a trademark of the Tidioute Cutlery Company. Tidioute was later taken over & renamed the Union Cutlery Company which continued making the brand until Union eventually adopted it as the company name in 1952. Cutco Corporation later acquired the company in 1996.
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Cleaver Knife

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Hello

I've been an observer for years. I collect Kabar and Case. I recently acquired this piece and was wondering if anyone had any more information. I know the date range but other than that nothing.

Thank you for any help.

Thank you.
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Re: Cleaver Knife

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Very unusual knife and I can't imagine KA-BAR produced very many of these. Model # 22106. Most of the cherry tree chopper type knives made back in the day had smaller hatchet heads than this knife. I would think the survival rate would be rather low because the frames would not stand up to heavy use and chopping. Not many of these floating around out there.

Hope you have a big strong pocket for it. ::tu::
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Re: Cleaver Knife

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Thank you.

Correct, here are my two AX7. These are axe heads and that is a cleaver. Weighs almost 11 oz!!
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I hate to say it, but I think this knife may not be original. I have seen the cleaver blades on Imperials and Colonials before, but never on a KA-BAR. I also have never seen a KA-BAR knife-axe combo knife in stag, only bone. There are no catalog references I know of with a cleaver model nor a stag axe version. The knife shown here has a lot of wear on the blades but not on the handles or bolsters looking like a knife that has been worked on.
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Not sure where this picture originated from but it's in THE OFFICIAL GUIDE TO COLLECTOR KNIVES eighth edition. This book is credited to the late Jim Parker and he was s self professed KA-BAR collector. The stag handles, rather than jigged bone would be appropriate for the KA-BAR USA stamp.

From the looks of the OP knife as well as this picture I would say if indeed real they were produced only for a short time, 1950's guesstimate.
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Re: Cleaver Knife

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Very cool Wayne!! I had not seen that before. KA-BAR over USA would be very late 1940s-early 1951 since the mark changed to Kabar lower case italicized with the company name change to KA-BAR Cut Co from Union Cut Co in 1951.
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Cool knife for sure. Not sure how practical it is. I doubt many sold. Still a neat piece. Thanks for sharing it.
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Re: Cleaver Knife

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Thanks everyone, it's good to finally hear some official Kabar talk. I have others I'll share and also ask questions.

Thank you.
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