Hi to all! Please help to recognize this one as a postwar made gravity knife or not, I had seen original ones with Baklite grips but never see before this piece protruding to the left of the 'crossguard'. The Eickhorn original mark makes me doubt...did Eickhorn use this trademark postwar for the DDR or the Bundeswehr? Maybe a repro? any opinion wellcome and sorry for the bad quality photo, regards
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or www.aukro.cz
(actually one is here: http://www.aukro.cz/item677603579_gravitacni_nuz.html
and here another one: http://www.aukro.cz/item674459695_gravitacni_nuz.html )
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Hi! I found a vey good translator for Czech at www.translate.google.com , so now I can talk with the Czech seller. Thanks again for the links, I will post some photos when the knife arrives, regards
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I think if you search around on the net you have to find more of this. The Eichkhorn company is still in business today. However the have in the mean time again changed their squirrel design into a more modern version. A few decades back, the firm was also involved in the development of tactical knives for the army.
Regards, Wim
(Wim Vangossum)Freedom is not for Free
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Hi !
In the Bundeswehr officially only two pattern´s of gravity-knive´s were in use.
First: The 1956 Pattern
Second: The 1963 Pattern
The knife, (shown here in this thread), actionally was made by Eickhorn, but in "Army-use" in the BW were only the two Model´s, I mentioned.
Eickhorn produced the "LL 80", ("Luft-Lande" ? Pattern ´80), and also the "AES 81", (Anette Eickhorn, Solingen).
Both knive´s are lookin´ similar and one of the grip-plates is marked like that.
The official-worn gravity-knife of the Bundeswehr was maker-marked on the blade, (OFW, WMF, Carl Eickhorn-Logo), and, (significant !), one of the grip-plates is marked with "BUND"
I´ve read, that the "Eickhorn LL 80" was in use, (other than the GDR cord-cutter knife), in the Austrian "Jagdkommando", (The "Snake-Eater´s").
But in the Bundeswehr the "LL 80" and "AES 81", (so I was told), was not officially used.
Cheer´s,
R.Last edited by Reibert-Austria; 07-07-2009, 02:47 PM.
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