Here is a beauty!! smile
It is a beautiful tree on the handle - walnut?
You do not know from what steel's made this Damascus?

You have Randall #12-13 Raymond W. Thorp?
interesting to compare them, if you put next to each other smile


Unfortunately, I can not telephone call from Eastern Europe.
Plus, I really do not speak in English, my call just have no one understands.

Interesting, Bill Bagwell can made bowie without guard -
as Tahchee bowie from lithograph from the History of the Indian Tribes
of North America by Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall or as James Black Bowie?


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------Carrigan Coffin Bowie 1.jpg

Description: James Black made this knife in Washington, Arkansas. Photo courtesy of Historic Arkansas Museum www.antiquebowies.com/antiqueBowies/historic/tahchee/tahchee.htm


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