Preface that I need to read your Price/Zelsky Post, but is this an early knife? Bone is more expensive, & I can’t see the company loosing money. I can’t see Army/QMC ordering/specing something unnecessarily expensive either?Wingnutt wrote: ↑Fri Jan 12, 2018 6:55 amDave,
That might be the handsomest GMTK knife I have ever seen. Perfect example of the type PAL made with bone instead of wood scales and with the "U.S. ARMY" stamped on the tang instead of the scale, exactly as the Price/Zelsky knife guide I posted in post #3 indicates.
GMTK Electrician's Knife: 41-K-370 vs. TL-29
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Thank You for the compliments and your research, that is what guided me to this very lucky find ...
Thank You Sir!
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Thank You for the compliments and your research, that is what guided me to this very lucky find ...
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I don't know if the PAL bone-handled "U.S. ARMY" tang-stamped electrician's knives were earlier, later or in parallel production with the PAL wood-handled "U.S. ARMY" handle-stamped electrician's knives, but they are WWII vintage. Interwar and pre-war electrician's knives were significanty shorter than 3-5/8" long, had two notches in the screwdriver blade, and no bail on the end. Maybe the ran out of cocobolo wood!
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heres another monkey for the wrench works.
found this reference in the coast artillery journal looking for sig tools
TL-116 electricians knife,
http://www.radionerds.com/index.php/TL_-_Tools
anybody ever seen one ?
(youll have to google BOOKS to find it)
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found this reference in the coast artillery journal looking for sig tools
TL-116 electricians knife,
http://www.radionerds.com/index.php/TL_-_Tools
anybody ever seen one ?
(youll have to google BOOKS to find it)
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Silvey's book on Military Pocket knives states that the bone handles were an early version, however he doesn't know the time frame. Also, Camillus made an early bone handle also except they didn't stamp theirs "US ARMY".
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Page 2 has a picture of the TL-116. I suspect it to be the short-blades version as it appears to be exactly like a TL-29.
Page 2 has a picture of the TL-116. I suspect it to be the short-blades version as it appears to be exactly like a TL-29.
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This makes it sounds as if Camillus made the bone-handled knife for the Army but didn't stamp it. Is that what you meant to say? As far as I know, that early bone-handled Camillus was not made under contract with the Signal Corps or any other branch. It was a civilian knife and would have no reason to be stamped "U.S. ARMY". If you have other info, Steve, please share it.
???!!! Did you see the TL-29 to the right of it (from a TE-33, below a CS-34 pouch) in the same image? Or read Frank Trzaska's post accompanying the image? TL-116 was never fielded. It was the designation for an experiment, developed in the 1920's, for an electrician's knife with longer blades, a one-notched screwdriver blade, and a shackle. (Again, the original WWI and interwar TL-29 was considerably smaller than the WWII TL-29, it had two notches across from each other on the screwdriver blade, and no shackle on the end). When a longer-bladed (3-5/8") electrician's knife with only one notch in the screwdriver blade and a shackle on the end was eventually designed by the Signal Corps for fielding, they used the old designator (TL-29) again.
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Thanks, Steve. So he thinks it was a TL-29 without the shield? I don't know. That's odd for early, but okay, that explains why it wasn't stamped "U.S. ARMY", which was an Ordnance thing, not a Signal Corps thing.
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???!!! Did you see the TL-29 to the right of it (from a TE-33, below a CS-34 pouch) in the same image? Or read Frank Trzaska's post accompanying the image? TL-116 was never fielded. It was the designation for an experiment, developed in the 1920's, for an electrician's knife with longer blades, a one-notched screwdriver blade, and a shackle. (Again, the original WWI and interwar TL-29 was considerably smaller than the WWII TL-29, it had two notches across from each other on the screwdriver blade, and no shackle on the end). When a longer-bladed (3-5/8") electrician's knife with only one notch in the screwdriver blade and a shackle on the end was eventually designed by the Signal Corps for fielding, they used the old designator (TL-29) again.
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Yes I sort of saw it. The driver blade is washed out on my screen. The blade lengths look similar or the same. Thanks for correction.
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Yes I sort of saw it. The driver blade is washed out on my screen. The blade lengths look similar or the same. Thanks for correction.
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Hi All
Here is a few pictures of my keeper's recent find's
FWIW I was lucky to buy these from the Silvey collection.
Your Thoughts
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Here is a few pictures of my keeper's recent find's
FWIW I was lucky to buy these from the Silvey collection.
Your Thoughts
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Here is another picture I would like to share with you
Thanks for looking
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Here is another picture I would like to share with you
Thanks for looking
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A great read if you haven't read this thread before.
Over the years I've found and sold a number of PAL US ARMY stamped electrician knives. They have a smaller font than their Ka Bar counterparts and they also tend to have a deeper stamp that is less likely to wear off with use. I always have to look closely at the Ka Bar panels as its very easy to overlook the faintly stamped or worn down/off US ARMY.
I have found PAL with US ARMY stamped on the blade or on the wood panel but never both until a week or two ago. I found a PAL at the flea market stamped US ARMY on the wood panel and on the blade. Has anyone else seen one like it?
PAL stamped US ARMY on blade and panel
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Over the years I've found and sold a number of PAL US ARMY stamped electrician knives. They have a smaller font than their Ka Bar counterparts and they also tend to have a deeper stamp that is less likely to wear off with use. I always have to look closely at the Ka Bar panels as its very easy to overlook the faintly stamped or worn down/off US ARMY.
I have found PAL with US ARMY stamped on the blade or on the wood panel but never both until a week or two ago. I found a PAL at the flea market stamped US ARMY on the wood panel and on the blade. Has anyone else seen one like it?
PAL stamped US ARMY on blade and panel
phil
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