The KA-BAR brand originated as a trademark of the Tidioute Cutlery Company. Tidioute was later taken over & renamed the Union Cutlery Company which continued making the brand until Union eventually adopted it as the company name in 1952. Cutco Corporation later acquired the company in 1996.
Found this beauty in a box of crap knives at a flea market. KA-BAR 1058, great jack, full of snap, cleaned up nice and took a wicked razor edge. cheers