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Please help me id this big blade

ashenashashenash Member Posts: 11 ✭✭
edited May 2007 in Ask the Experts
Sorry if OT but you guys seem to have lots of knowledge.

I have a big blade I cant seem to identify

17" long in the sheath
leather sheath wood lined
wooden handle
no markings

can be seen at
http://www.gk43forum.com/forum/vbpicgallery.php?do=view&g=331

Thanks in advance
Bert
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  • cmd66cmd66 Member Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's commonly referred to as a "pig sticker".
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  • sandwarriorsandwarrior Member Posts: 5,453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It looks like a "Smatchet" of WWII (Pacific theatre?)issue but I have no way of knowing if it's real or not.
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  • captkirk3@dslextreme.comcaptkirk3@dslextreme.com Member Posts: 3,804
    edited November -1
    What You have is a #2 O.S.S. SMATCHET....W.R. CASE & SONS CUTLERY Co.
    From M.H. Cole's Book of U.S.Military Knifes, Bayonets & Machetes...
    There was Two Models of this Blade made for the O.S.S. <Office of Strategic Service Command>.....Page 156....
    A heavy knife with a 11" blade 2 11/16" wide. No.1 has black plastic handle with a bright blade, over all length 15 9/16". No2 has a walnut handle and a cast pot metal butt, parkerized blade, 16 3/8" over all length. No1 was also made with a parkerized blade. The Scabbard for No2 is made of plywood with a black leather covering. No1 is brown leather but no plywood.
    A letter from "CASE" dated September 13, 1960 stated they made this knife during W.W.ll for the OSS.....
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  • md1634md1634 Member Posts: 644 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What you also have is a very rare and desirable knife,if it's real and not a copy. It was designed during WWII for a specific form of combat. I can't remember who designed it (my books are are at home)but if you Google "Smatchet" you should get tons of info. The reason they are rare blades is that most were lost in a freighter that was sunk during the war.
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  • john carrjohn carr Member Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not disagreeing with you as I know nothing about the subject at hand but if it is an "issue" blade wouldn't the maker's name be on it? The poster said there are NO markings on it. My only reason for asking is that my Marine issue knife has the maker's name, Camillus, stamped on the bottom of the hilt and U.S.M.C. stamped on one toe of the hilt.
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  • captkirk3@dslextreme.comcaptkirk3@dslextreme.com Member Posts: 3,804
    edited November -1
    You're missing the point John: O.S.S was the forunner to the CIA...Nothing was marked with any type of information as to who the manufacturer is or was...In Cole's book there is a copy of the letter from CASE admitting to the manufacture of these Blades...
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