All About Pocket Knives

hey my wife asked me what i wanted to do for my birthday and i said 3 things. the first im not gonna mention. lets just say if your lucky it happens on fathers day as well.haha! 2,i wanted to buy a knife. she has seen how much i have spent recently and said "you already have" so my third was just to sit and insted of shop learn. and during my learning today i came across this knife and it became a mini obsession anybody have anything like it please post pics of picks!!! check i out

"This is an original OSS/CIA lock-picking escape knife. Unfortunately it did not come to me with the torsion bar and the carry pouch. It was made by Schrade for use during and after WWII. These were a MUST return item given to an agent before they were sent" behind the lines". Somehow about 20-35, of the about 500 made, are known to exist on the collector market. Very few of them are in this condition and have suffered the use of the agent trying to use the knife for exactly what it was designed for, ESCAPE! These are pretty commonly found with the tips missing from the bent picks."

do you have this knife or is it from a book? if from a book. which one?

moved your post here. schrade experts hang out here.

i found it on a site. i couldnt find one anywhere else. this is one of those i do but dont own type pieces. anybody who has one is not giving it up. i did read online that one has sold on the open market for 55,000$ yup you read it right.ill see if i can remember the site.

I want one too!

no one seems to know about this knife or they have not read the post yet. c'mon schrade guys!

i still cant remeber the site its on. once i do ill contact the guy to get more info.this is probably one of the most interesting knife/tool/get me the hell out of these handcuffs before this nut cuts my head of!!! i have seen in awhile. its neat to know it was made by schrade.


anybody........................................?

ANOTHER THING.... like i said anyone who had any knowledge of this device for the most partis either dead,not going to talk about it,etcetc. im pretty sure its one of those contract pieces where the goverment&shcrade always own it...kinda like my paycheck!

if found turn in or confiscated type of deal. ill try my hardest to get a hold of the guy.

found site...contacted guy.. waiting reply...

I owned this knife. The pic is mine. The original poster found this pic on my personal page on my club's website.

Not sure what I can add to what was taken from my description.

The knife was issued in a leather pouch with a small torsion bar. To pick a lock the tumblers must first be twitched but without applying pressure to turn the cylinder the tumblers simply fall back in place.

This knife was a MUST return item. Obviously some made it out as is always the case.

I owned this knife about 10 years ago and sold it then for $1000. Its value today would be in excess of $2500.

Here is a better pic of the knife.

Steve

welcome steve. cool little knife. what provenance, if any is there linking it to dark opps or schrade?

There is some info out there but it is hard to come by.

Those of you with complete libraries will please go to pg 477 (3rd to last leaf) of Brucie Voyles' ABCA Antique Knives.

Those without a complete library, but at least a well stocked new book library, will please go to pg 78 of Mike Silvey's Pocket Knives of the US Military.

The second book will actually show the pouch and torsion bar that my knife was missing.

GOOD LUCK, there are only about 30 or so estimated to be on the open market. Silvey states THREE OR FOUR UNMARKED KNIVES exist. I owned one of them. Silvey states that after OSS that the CIA knives were openly marked and not sterile.

Steve

bond, james bond! cool. thanks for the reply and we look forward to more from you. you have a nice site and your club site is great too.

Steve,
Welcome to AAPK.
We hope you will stay around and post some more.

Dale

steve thank you very much for joining and sharing what info you had. i posted and i did read that one sold for 55000$ steve if you see this do you think that number was blown up?

steve was a little hard to track down as he is busy but i was happy he replied to my emails and now has joined our community.once again thank you.

just an update 12540$ saved on ebay fake knife auctions.thank you to those who recognize these fakes.keep doing it and i will keep doing what i do.getting these phonies off ebay.

I found these on my computer while looking for some other knife pictures that I lost.

I think $5500 is very high, but remember that there are only a few dozen of these to go around for many thousands of knife guys.

Steve

thanks, steve, great research!

I just picked this one up at the market for 15 bucks

petekuhn wrote: ↑Sun Oct 30, 2022 1:04 pm I just picked this one up at the market for 15 bucks

Wow, 15 bucks .
You have a really unique piece there .
Want to double your money. Lol
Thanks for posting this and to take the time to post it on a previous post from years ago . Very very nice info and pics here on this thread .

I guess this would be number five of the unmarked knives. So 30 won.t cut it. But thanks anyhow

As a novice lock picker, I would LOVE to have one of these! You are a very lucky fellow!

FYI, here's one of the modern versions for civilians, not the CIA (as far as I know!)
https://covertinstruments.com/collectio ... lly-loaded

There are several others, often sold under the name "Jackknife pocket lock pick".
https://www.lockpicks.com/lock-entry-to ... -sets.html

I just looked and seen I did`nt have all of them open

Wow! What a find!

That's odd and really cool, which checks off two of my important knife qualifiers. Wishing I hadn't seen this.