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Can anyone identify this for me? It has absolutely no markings on it anywhere..it is very well-built… No wobble when opened and tight as a snare drum when locked open and closed..The sheath seems right for it also..A friend of mine owed me 30 bucks about 25 years ago and I accepted this knife in lieu of the $..His cousin found it in an old house they cleaned out in a nearby town when somebody got evicted..

Similar folders that judging by the shape of yours are the same size were made in Germany. I bought a couple of them in France in 1972. While the sabre ground clip point of yours looks very much like both of mine and all the other's I've seen yours is the first one I've seen that locks with a rocker type back lock. Some of the members here call these folding Bowies. I do not like that name. Mine were sold for hunting or camping but I suppose that could have been the French store keeper's interpretation of them. I hope this helps a little. I do not know who made yours.

I've always referred to these as German pig-stickers;

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There were a lot of them made in Germany, in the late eighteen hundreds. I believe there were also some made in the US a little more recently than that, I believe prior to World War II. The ones I have seen or not extremely high dollar but they do bring a fair price sometimes.

Stanwade wrote: ↑Mon Feb 10, 2020 11:32 pm Can anyone identify this for me? It has absolutely no markings on it anywhere..it is very well-built… No wobble when opened and tight as a snare drum when locked open and closed..The sheath seems right for it also..A friend of mine owed me 30 bucks about 25 years ago and I accepted this knife in lieu of the $..His cousin found it in an old house they cleaned out in a nearby town when somebody got evicted..

Any idea of the value of mine? I don’t want to sell it I’m just curious

Stanwade wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2020 2:17 am Any idea of the value of mine? I don’t want to sell it I’m just curious

Offhand the only ones I can recall that did not have real stag sides are Pakistan made copies of a German one but since I can not tell for sure I'll ask if yours has real stag. If they are not real that both helps date your knife and guess at its value. Also if the blade is stainless steel like both of mine that would eliminate 19th century vintage.

A knife identical to the one I have that has a side lock just sold through an eBay auction for about $170. I do not know the name for its lock. A flipper switch on the side of the handle swings through almost 180 degrees camming a pin out of a hole in the tang. I locks both open and folded. This type of lock is common on switch blades. Unlike yours it and mine are stamped with a well known manufacture's name and Solingen.

Real stag, carbon blade... thanks slip joint

I don't think the quality and workmanship of the sheath is consistent with that of the knife.

I suspect they did not start out together.

Charlie Noyes