Here's one I've had since I was a kid. It was bought off a local knife peddler. Not much information on it other than it's old and it was made in Spain in their signature bull horn style. I've always thought it was really cool... Blade length: 9.5" OAL: 21.75"
Real nice find Sniper... That is a 18th century style Curro folding knife made for generations by the Muela family of Spain. It utilizes a thumb catch atop the handle for unlocking the blade. Those knives usually have genuine Bullhorn or Red Stag antler for the handle materials with Moly-Vanadium stainless steel blades. The etching on the blade is really unique...and contains the word Toledo. Toledo has been a traditional sword-making, steel-working center since about 500 BC, and came to the attention of Rome when used by Hannibal in the Punic Wars. Soon, it became a standard source of weaponry for Roman Legions. Toledo steel was famed for its very high quality alloy, whereas Damascene steel, a competitor from the Middle Ages on, was famed for a specific metal-working technique.
Here's a Colt Custom knife from the Franklin Mint that my wife got me for my 40th birthday...among other presents from that day.... Pictured on the handle is a Colt Thunderer Model 1877...one of the first double action revolvers that Colt ever made. The Thunderer was chambered in .41 Colt, while the other two pistols in that line, the Lightning and the Rainmaker, were chambered in .38 Colt and .32 Colt respectively. Old West Outlaw John Wesley Hardin frequently used both Lightning and Thunderer versions of the Colt 1877 revolver. Likewise the 1877 Thunderer in .41 caliber was the preferred weapon of Billy the Kid and was his weapon of choice when he was killed by Pat Garrett in 1881.
Here's another Colt sanctioned blade from my collection...this one commemorating the AR15 semi-automatic rifle. The AR-15 is based on the 7.62 mm AR-10, designed by Eugene Stoner of the Fairchild ArmaLite corporation. The AR-15 was developed as a lighter, 5.56 mm version of the AR-10. The "AR" in AR-15 comes from the ArmaLite name. ArmaLite's AR-1, AR-5, and some subsequent models were bolt action rifles, the AR-7 a semiautomatic survival rifle and there are shotguns and pistols whose model numbers also include the "AR" prefix. ArmaLite sold its rights to the AR-10 and AR-15 to Colt in 1959. After a tour by Colt of the Far East, the first sale of AR-15s were made to Malaysia on 30 September 1959 with Colt's manufacture of their first 300 AR-15s in December 1959. Colt marketed the AR-15 rifle to various military services around the world, including the U.S. Navy, Air Force, Army, and Marine Corps. The AR-15 was eventually adopted by the United States military under the designation M16. However, Colt continued to use the AR-15 trademark for its semi-automatic variants which were marketed to civilian and law-enforcement customers.
I just love looking at really nice knives and those are some nice knives back in the '80s I learned how to grind knives up in the tool room and cutter grinder room at general Motors I was an electrician assigned up there and one of the guys showed me how to grind knives on a surface grinder. Then buying Damascus blanks and making knives out of Damascus I went to the school at the American Bladesmith Society'Texarkana where I learned how to forge knives and make my own Damascus after that I bought a forge, a trip hammer and then a knife makers 20 ton press and made knives for another 20 years now getting a little long in the tooth the legs going to hell I've sold most my stuff for making knives but still enjoy looking at them.
I've collected knives for over 40 years... KaBar, Marble's, M.S.A., Morseth, Randall, R.H. Ruana and U.S. Military for the most part... I've been selling them off over the last few years...
