crane brand sheffield england? and ka bar

[thebigc]

i have an older knife i think i found it in a box of my grandfathers stuff years ago and have been trying to look up

it has crane brand cutlery sheffeild england a little motif of two cranes faceing eachother and it appears some kind of antler handels.








i dont really know where its from my dad was suspecting it came from his grandfather who was in the aef in ww1 but i dont think its that old the blade was broken so i started repofileing it years ago and never finished.


the other knife is a ka bar its suposedly my grandfathers knife he had during ww2 he was a seabee and was on the islands of new herbrides and guadalcanal at henderson airfeild ( i have some cool old pictures but cant scan them )

its suposedly the same knife he carried the whole time i found it in his long lost tackel box after he died and it was an absoulte mess pitted to hell so i cleaned it the sheath is still somewhat intact its a verey sharp knife.






the sheath has brass rivits holding it together the blade is marked with nothing but ka bar








i dont know really anything about either of these items im really hopeing someone can tell me if the ka bar would be period correct for a world war two one or if its newer and the crane i have searched and searched and still find nothing.

any help is greatly appreciated

 

[hso]

Your first knife is a little Kissing Crane clip point. The handle materials are probably bone, but they could be stag. From a collectable standpoint it's far more valuable than the Mk2.

The Mk2 can have a great history with it, though and may be more sentimentally valuable. Look opposite the "KaBar" and see if it has any faint "U S" marking that would prove that it actually was issued. The absence of the "U S" doesn't mean that it wasn't issued, it just means that you can't be sure.

 

[Sniper X]

When I was 9 I had that 3exact same Kissing Crane knife. Had it for years and it was my best friend. I went camping a lot back then. Lived in Georgia. This was the early 60s and i had that knife till I was about 16 when a buddy borrowed it and while at a small pond fishing tried to throw it across the pond (pond was about 25ft across) and it fell halfway short as it was a bad throw. I got the sheath back and am still mad at him today.....BTW, I bought it at a place called Cooks Sporting Goods in Savanah Ga.

 

[thebigc]

thanks guys i think im going to clean up the crane a little then put it back in my safe same with the ka bar im keeping them both i really like the ka bar its honestly the sharpest knife i own it takes a wicked edge no us markings on it though so who knows where it came from or if he bought it himself.