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I have found that it could be , , , and Guard is steel and pommel is aluminum. Since it still has a reference to the double tang patent, it is preish. The steel guard narrows it down even further. No one knows exactly when civilian directed manufacturing began after the war was over, but I'm sure it was ASAP. I usually label these as to , but in reality, they could be anytime from September , probably a little later but most likely BEFORE the Christmas sales season up to sometime later in when brass started being made available.

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I started looking into this subject a couple of years ago. But I believe I can give you some good advice. The most common by far is the bowie with the wooden handle the W Also they produced the stock number a bowie with a handle made of synthetic stag for the handle. These two variations appear during the time period of to at least There are at least 4 more variations in knife markings and wooden handle type from then to when Western started date coding their knives on the blade. This practice was continued after Western was sold to the Coleman Co.

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C.1977 Western Bowie W49

All About Pocket Knives is a knife related resource center for buying, selling, researching, and discussing all things knives. Post by songsingingman » Tue Jun 11, pm. Post by Mumbleypeg » Tue Jun 11, pm. Post by zzyzzogeton » Wed Jun 12, am.

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