Hi All,
I was rummaging through my collection this morning and came across these three New Zealand manufactured fighting knives.
these were manufactured by several companies and are often found with the blades marked AKE Regd or NZ Cutlers Co Auckland.
Of these three knives only the center one is marked AKE Regd and the other two are unmarked which is not unusual at all.
Often these are described as only ever having seen use in the Pacific Theater however these are instances where soldiers were issued with these knives before being deployed to the middle east also so not a 'theater specific' item as such.
These were also used by members of the RNZAF with a different scabbard which I do not have an example of (not through lack of looking though!)
This next knife is the most often seen type with an unmarked blade often these are found with no scabbard but there are also plenty of examples about with original scabbards
This one has been there and done that .... it looks like whomever the servicemen was had plenty of time on his hands and polished off the crosshatching and also inscribed the places he served on the scabbard
This last one is my favorite and a nasty piece of work !
Marked AKE Reg this one is certainly one of the more uncommon blades found .... this is the first one I have handled with its original scabbard.
Hope you found these interesting
Tim
I was rummaging through my collection this morning and came across these three New Zealand manufactured fighting knives.
these were manufactured by several companies and are often found with the blades marked AKE Regd or NZ Cutlers Co Auckland.
Of these three knives only the center one is marked AKE Regd and the other two are unmarked which is not unusual at all.
Often these are described as only ever having seen use in the Pacific Theater however these are instances where soldiers were issued with these knives before being deployed to the middle east also so not a 'theater specific' item as such.
These were also used by members of the RNZAF with a different scabbard which I do not have an example of (not through lack of looking though!)
This next knife is the most often seen type with an unmarked blade often these are found with no scabbard but there are also plenty of examples about with original scabbards
This one has been there and done that .... it looks like whomever the servicemen was had plenty of time on his hands and polished off the crosshatching and also inscribed the places he served on the scabbard
This last one is my favorite and a nasty piece of work !
Marked AKE Reg this one is certainly one of the more uncommon blades found .... this is the first one I have handled with its original scabbard.
Hope you found these interesting
Tim
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