This pinned ivory example came up on e-bay a year and a half or so ago. The blade grind closely matched that of a photo in Mr. Gaddis' book of the original Trout and Bird shipped to Litch Steinman on October 26th, 1946. The blade was name etched to a Mr. "Fred M. Gilman" who reportedly owned a sporting goods store at Walloon Lake and carried a line of Bo's knives. Mr. Gaddis was kind enough to do some research on the knife and his letter follows. When I received the knife I was surprise to discover that the blade was made out from 1/8th inch stock! A friend of mine picked up a virtually identical knife at this year's Blade Show (also named etched and documented as one of the 1st group made) which was also made out of this same stock. I don't know when Bo converted to 3/16th stock but I suspect it happened fairly quickly (Comparative photo courtesy of Rhett).



This one is a mid 50's pinned stag T&B that came up on e-bay about 4-5 years ago. The auction had one very bad small photo and all you could really tell was that the sheath had a brown button. I asked the seller for better pics and he sent a close up of the blade which looked pretty rough. I put in a bid representative of what I figured the condition warranted and I ended up winning it. I tell people that when you buy an old Randall off of e-bay there are always surprises no matter how good or bad the discription or photos are. Some disappointing and some exciting. In this case I opened the package and found the knife to be dead mint! The guy had mistakenly send me a photo of a different knife