Help id KA-BAR fixed blade

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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Oddis76048
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Help id KA-BAR fixed blade

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Trying to id. I couldn't find any matches online
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Gunsil
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Re: Help id KA-BAR fixed blade

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Your neat little knife is from the 1930s and was called "Little Hunter" in the old KA-BAR brochures. They came in stag handles with a stag pommel or celluloid handles with a stag pommel. Some war time ones had a wood pommel with steel butt cap. Yours has a rarer "cracked ice" celluloid handle, I don't see many like that most have a butterscotch colored celluloid and there is also a rarer one with tortoise celluloid handles.
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