ID help please

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.
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centex
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ID help please

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Hello all, need help with the ID of this Ka-Bar 2-3/4” pen knife. No shield, small bolsters and black jigged scales. Not much to go on but that’s all I have. A nice well used little carry around for the small stuff. Would the blades be considered spear point or something else? Thanks, Jim
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Looks like a standard pen knife.

Bolsters are referred to as "tip" bolsters.

The main blade was possibly a long spear point blade.
The shorter blade is referred to as the "pen" blade.
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It is what is referred to as a "senator pen" . It probably had a long pen and a short pen blade with jigged black composition handles . Most likely produced in the late 1930's - late 1940's according to the tang stamp .

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Thanks for the answers. Would the small bolsters also be called "equal end"?
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