Right--there "ain't no way" to identify "the" Jim Bowie knife, or even "a" Jim Bowie knife among all the candidates out there.

Also--I have been accumulating information about the authenticity of the brass strip as a feature on bowie knives, and frankly at this point think it is bogus. More on this when and if I get the information pulled together and written up.

Still--I'm grateful that you alerted us to the magazine, and I will look for it on the magazine stand to add to my trove of stuff about antique bowie knives.

Larry