I don't know....kinda looks "scratched" in to me...

LOL

what provenance do you have Bill that states as such?

Judging by the apparent condition, I don' think that particular knife ever opened a bottle.

Joe, that being an early fishing knife I think Bill meant that tongue in cheek.
The knife is a destroyer of fish.

I kinda liked the UDT angle....take a break and pop a cap on a cold one after a hard day at the beach in Normandy. A really neat item of which I had only read.

Great "catch" Bill. ;-)

That knife looks indestructible. Because of that, it seems like there would be more around than there appear to be. I guess there just weren't very many made to begin with.

Lofty, if you think about it the UDT is possible. That knife, the Fish and Bar, as Bo called it was created before WWII. When the war started according to Gaddis production all but stopped on the Fish and Bar Knife. It stands to reason that a guy going into the military in WWII could have used one of these knives during the war.

So Scott, do you think this is a UDT Knife???

max

One did, it is documented on pages 138-139 in Hunt's "Randall Military Models", but to make a blanket statement that there was some sudden flurry of purchases by the newly formed UDT in its infancy is a dream at best. Even the inference this took place is disingenuous without any evidence to support it.

Most of the maybe ten or so I have seen were found in atackle box or kitchen drawer. They were not very popular being limited in their use and the expense. That was a pricey bottle opener back in the day!

I grinned. I almost laughed, but I did grin.

A WWII Ka-Bar (Camillus) UDT I sold. Nothing like Bo Randall's.