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ZAK Czechoslovakia (on the blade) deer foot handle. It looks like the original leather sheath.

I don't know anything else about this knife, it was given to me as a boy by my father and I know he had it quite sometime before I was born.

If you have any information on this knife or about how much it might be worth and/or the age of this knife, I would apprecated any info you can tell me.

Thanks,
Draac

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Interesting knife. Especially the design of the sheath and its embellishments. It has a native American flair and the swastika is intriguing. Swastikas were used by native Americans and several other cultures other than Hitler's Reich.

Neat knife.

Intersting knife. I would estimate it was made in the interwar period. With the connection to your father, sentimental value is high but unlikely to have much monetary value IMO. s-k

Here's another style of deer foot knife but it's not from Czechoslovakia. It's a big ol' lockback made by Henry Boker's Improved Cutlery (Circa. 1860-1880) of Germany.

Czechoslovakia as a nation only existed for a little over 70 years (see Wikipedia entry below) and all that during the 20th Century.

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia[1] (Czech and Slovak: Československo, Česko-Slovensko) was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992. From 1939 to 1945, the state did not de facto exist because of its forced division and partial incorporation into Nazi Germany, but the Czechoslovak government-in-exile nevertheless continued to exist during this period. In 1945, the eastern part of Carpathian Ruthenia was taken over by the Soviet Union. On 1 January 1993, Czechoslovakia peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

Draac wrote:If you have any information on this knife or about how much it might be worth and/or the age of this knife, I would apprecated any info you can tell me.

Unfortunately in that condition they are worth very little, but the sentimental value is priceless

I would say it is from the 1930`s or later.