Wow! as always , you have left me speechless !

can someone please help me in dating this # 2-7 " ?

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and some of the best pictures i've ever seen
Best,

I would date it as late 70's/ early 80's

This thread is close to hitting the 1,000,000 mark. It is very interesting to go back, and read through some of the older posts....history in the making!!!
:-)Rocky

Yes Rocky thanks to Big Jim Parker. I'll get him back on here again. Jim came up with a great idea and it stuck.

These two belong in this thread. The Zacharius was made in late 1942. It has to be one of the first few (1-5) ever made.

The leather finger-grip knife was probably made by March of 1943.

I was happy to visit up close at Blade. Awesome knife Tune.

The Zacharius has me curious......was there a definitive year Randall stopped double-pinning handles? I have 1943 in mind.

I don't know the year for sure, but it was later than 1943. Probably a few examples into the mid to later 40's.

Ron and Joe may have better data points / opinions.

In late 45 or early46 the best I can tell with possibly a few stragglers along the way. I had a real nice stag with "3 1/2" blade grind with two pins that was post war so either late 45 into early 46. I don't think it took long to drop the second pin. The third and fourth photos are of a 1-8" from around the same period in a left over WWII sheath either prior to the switch to plastic snaps or was in the bin. In any case, it has one pin. I currently have a 2-8" with stag and single pin from the original owner that got it in 1946

Thanks for the info and photos.