The whole knife is way cool. Besides the parry strip, the soft edges on the scalloped collar and coolie cap are unlike later pieces which have more uniform and sharper edges.
Hard to explain how that handle survived where many others self destructed.
On to the sheath;well just damn near perfect.
Ran out if thoughts, still wiping drool off the chin.

That is one fantastic Smith Cap. Thanks for showing it.

Great old knife.... the ivory is amazing, it looks check and crack free. Very rare.

It's not...(Other photo)
Thanks, Capt. Chris

A crack in an Ivory handle does nothing to diminish the value of a quality knife like that. All Ivory handles will crack sooner or later, so if anybody wants a perfect example, they might as well get over it now. I would have bought this knife, no questions asked.

I know absolutely ZERO about this... Having held the knife myself though, it did NOT seem like it took away from it at all. The purchaser had ZERO reservations about it either.

I was not implying that is would diminish the desirability of the knife. It was just an observation on the fine condition of the handle. Nothing to get over here....

I'm sorry if you felt like this came across as a slight towards you Mitchell because it was not the intent. My suggestion that anybody thinking about buying an Ivory handled Randall better be prepared for it to crack.

I understood what everyone here was saying. Shouldn't be a problem. Now, is my Narwhal gonna crack?

Well, it might if you use it as a hammer