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I've never thought about it but you are right that they all seem to have flat or swedge blades. That probably is because of knife-shape laws. Or maybe they didn't have those laws in France but they wanted to make knives that could be sold in countries like Germany where they did have those laws.

I thought you meant it was made at 7pm.

Get the thing that is available now. "In a couple months" means "maybe never" in that context.

That's a really tough knife to find as that is the Johnny Cade knife and everybody wants one.

I was thinking about this knife some more. I bet there was never a stamp. I would guess that the seller found it and asked around and some collector told them, "It is a picklock made by MM and the blade has been polished." Then the seller mistook that for meaning that a MM stamp had been polished of...

I have seen some MM stamps that were so light that even light sanding made them virtually invisible. That knife on Ebay is already more than you'd want to pay for a knife that's stamp has been lost.

If it is a patent number, there is a legal document....somewhere.

I would market it as a Grey Wind memorial knife.

Is it unusual to have a nickle silver button with brass bolsters, scale pins and safety cap? I've never seen that before. That is actually pretty common (though the button is steel). Older knives with brass have brass buttons & safeties. Modern 15" and 18"s have brass buttons and safeties. Most mod...

That stamp is so cool. Seems like I’ve seen something about it before but can’t remember the name. Great job on the polish! Mike It kind of looks like the Elio stamp but I think you are thinking of the Kilroy Was Here graffiti from the 40s. Am I right about that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilro...

You can make a blade like that appear much fuller if you sand the tang back here then make the blade lean forward a little.

whippersnapper wrote:Looks like it has a button to me? Is it broke inside?

That's just the little hump at the end of the rocker on which the button fits.

kugr wrote:Wasn't me who did that,

That's right; I was thinking of someone else who did that recently.

The sear hole on the blade might be good but the sear or the liner could be worn down. If you have the knife there you should be able to check by closing the blade and seeing how far you are able to pull it open. One important thing about bo/c blades: on one of your picklocks, you sanded the tang ba...

I would try to get a better look at the blade. As for the button, look for one that fell off another knife. It shouldn't be hard to find one that fits. I'm pretty sure those ones all had NS buttons. Another thing is that you always need to be careful with knives missing the spring. You might put the...