Gravity knife

[HuD]

Hello, recently i had the chance to buy a small lot of german paratrooper items from an old collector. In the lot there's a gravity knife, it looks ok, pretty used condition with a PW Solingen blade, but there a small hole in the crow where sometime there's the blade direction arrow. Anyone knows the reason why?
Thanks,
Stefano

[LH 600]

Do you have any closer picture of this ?

LH

[HuD]

oh yes I did some pictures of the knife but i am still waiting for the associated membership confirm in order to post the images directly... i hope to be able to do that at soonest. Stefano

[LH 600]

HuD.

If you put out your pics here on this tread , then we built the tread up with info and pics for future.

http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru...d.php?t=346715

[HuD]

Hello again, i finally decided to put a picture here:
http://s681.photobucket.com/albums/v...current=GK.jpg
I hope you can take a look at the knife,
Stefano

[LH 600]

Hello again, i finally decided to put a picture here:
http://s681.photobucket.com/albums/v...current=GK.jpg
I hope you can take a look at the knife,
Stefano

Thanks for pics. But they are to small to say anything out of it.

Can you arrange bigger images and close pics of the makers mark & spike markings ?
+ picture of the bolster with hole

[HuD]

here we go, better pictures of the markings on blade and spike:
http://s681.photobucket.com/albums/vv177/HuD_album/GK/
stefano

[juoneen]

Appears to be an original knife. I think the owner or maybe the soldier who brought it home did that for some reason. Possibly like a tool for some purpose.The holes champfered nicely , but not on center. If the blade was in the handle could this hole have been used to remove the spring from a firing pin on some pistol or someting as i said for a tool like the mauser stocks have the brass doughnut on the stock hole for the rifle bolt firing pin?. Possibly to hang on the wall? I know....thats doesnt make sense i guess. any guess is a good as mine.

[divisionpanzer]

Knife looks O.K. but very poor condition.Wha't is a price to own this pice of history???

[HuD]

Well i just got the knife together with other items in a small lot of paratrooper stuff but i think i payd it maybe too much... for the moment i am going to keep it cause i have another broken knife (same maker) that i was able to find in the ruins of an old farm up on the appennins... long time ago, i will show you some pictures later on.
thanks guys,
Stefano

[HuD]

I have just uploaded more pictures of the broken gravity knike. It was recovered nearby the Raticosa pass, in the ruins of an old farm located on the mountain road that goes from Florence to Bologna. The place was a stronghold in the defensive line during the winter 1944.
http://s681.photobucket.com/albums/vv177/HuD_album/GK/

The broken blade is a PWS and there a "MF" engraved on the wooden side.

Stefano