This one was an unusual find for my collection. Does anyone else have one of these?
This little feller has a blade that is only 3 1/4" long. It's a little skinning knife, made in the late 1960s by Boker USA.
This one is a 253 pattern, but judging by this catalog ad from 1966, there were several variants. It appears the knives with the 1XX prefix were stacked leather, while the 2XX prefix were stacked aluminum and black fiber.

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-Blue

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Looks like the Western Black Beauty line of knives

Nice find Ricky

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Thanks MB!
Were the Westerns from the same time period?

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-Blue

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You guys ever see those "Official Sheriff's Knife" fixed blades? That handle reminds me of them but I forget now who they were ricasso stamped by.

Edit- maybe it was the glove with the 3 arrows?

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like this one?
http://www.knifeforums.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/855982/tp/1/
First one I've ever seen.

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Here is the Western mentioned earlier in the thread and a Imperial, they are both simular looking.

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Johnnierotten

Yes, they were.

Please get the April issue of Knife World, Dennis Ellingsen did a great story on the Western black beauty knives

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Cool, I'll do that. Need to send Mark Z. a buck or two anyways....

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