Theile Y Quack Elberfeld.... Military?

[knife7knut]

Have had this for many years & have not been able to verify whether it is actually military or not. Any ideas?

[1967redrider]

Interesting fixed blade, Ray. According to Goins, these guys sparked the "Country of Origin" laws because they were German pretending to be English. I have looked this up before because I have an old Wade Bros. whittler that was made by them in attempt to mimick an English brand.

They were in business from 1866-1877, according to Goins.

[beresman]

And oddly enough, both the "Y" in "Thiele Y Quack" and the word "Arantizado" are Spanish, for "and" and "Guaranteed", respectively. So they weren't just pretending to be English, but Spanish as well, apparently...