Any ID This Ka-Bar?

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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BryanJ
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Any ID This Ka-Bar?

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Saw this in a pawnshop and for $45 I couldn’t let it stay. Anyone date it?
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Gunsil
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Re: Any ID This Ka-Bar?

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Your new knife is a model 82 from the 1930s. Model 82s came in leather handles or celluloid like yours. Yours is very worn and somewhat short and the sheath is for a different model.
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