BUCK identify ?

[leggo]

I picked this up Friday ,any ideas on the age of it , or any other info ?
It has UNION CUTLERY & OLEAN NY under it.
Other side has KA-BAR. I believe UNION OLEAN NY was from 1911 to 1956 ?
Was there a name given to this type of knife ?
I can't tell if it's bone or stag.
Does it have blade loss ?
Sorry for the poor pictures.
I searchrd eBay the first 7 pages of 290 something and stopped .I know I saw one similiar to this in this BUCK forum ,but there was no date in the post.
Thanks in advance for any help.

[Old Hunter]

That doesn't look like any Buck Knife I've ever seen. In the old days Hoyt Buck would reblade a customer's knife for them using blades he made from old files - but he stamped his name, B U C K, with single letter stamps on the new blades. I don't think that is what you have there. OH
Ps There was also an early Buck Knife - the Buck 117, where Hoyt re-bladed surplus lifeboat knives with his own blade and sold them in 1946 - that may be what you are thinking of.

[Bill-in-Texas]

Someone will eventually come along with a better memory than mine... I have a couple from that era. I believe your knife dates from circa 1938. It's clearly an early KA-BAR (Union Cutlery). You can look up info about when the Olean, NY factory closed it's doors over on the Union Cutlery / KA-BAR board. I think I've posted pics of mine, in the past.

Nice old knife!... not a Buck, though.
HTH, Bill

[terryl308]

Leggo, I have to agree with everyone, it's not a buck but the handles look like stag to me..Terry Sorry I can[t add much else.

[leggo]

That doesn't look like any Buck Knife I've ever seen. In the old days Hoyt Buck would reblade a customer's knife for them using blades he made from old files - but he stamped his name, B U C K, with single letter stamps on the new blades. I don't think that is what you have there. OH
Ps There was also an early Buck Knife - the Buck 117, where Hoyt re-bladed surplus lifeboat knives with his own blade and sold them in 1946 - that may be what you are thinking of.

O H , and Bill in Texas ..thanks for your response. If you have time please look at the following post :
Ka-Bar Collectors forum On page 4
Wed. August 01 2012
Author : watchman, and wiseguy responded to it
Title of post is KA-BAR LEVERLOCK VALUE & REPAIR INFO


I REALLY like this knife and sure would like to know what I've got here. wise guy seems to think watchman did good if he payed less than $400 for his. I paid $10.00 for mine.
Thanks
Maybe I should put this knife on the KNIFE Q AND A forum ??
PS .. I accidently posted this in the wrong forum...yes it should be in the KA-BAR forum.

[orvet]

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