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1 vintage U.S. World War 2 theater fighting knife w/G.I. trench artwork.  This fine theater knife has a trench art-engraved blade, and a scabbard that is marked with the theaters he fought in.  The scabbard also shows the number of enemy kills he had.  This knife would make an important addition to any collection.

This knife is a theater-modified PAL RH-36 fighting knife.  The  aluminum pommel was removed by the G.I., and replaced with a stag one.  The blade is engraved with an artistic pattern on both sides. 

The scabbard is marked ‘NEW HEBRIDES ISLANDS   U.S. ARMY   T.S. ROPERT(?)   STOCKTON CALIF.‘. 

The back of the scabbard is marked ‘GUAM   ASN 3942066‘.  This side of also marked with 7 hash marks–indicating 7 enemy kills. 

1 desirable ID’d U.S. World War 2 theater fighting knife.  The premium U.S. theater knife was carried by S/SGT Arthur Duebner.  This soldier served with the First Special Service Force and later with the 82nd Airborne 504th Easy Company.

This fine theater dagger is of exceptional quality.  In fact, S/SGT Duebner’s other carry knife was a fine Case V42.  That knife sold, with the same vet documentation that comes with this knife, at an auction house for $10,000 in 2011. 

This knife measures 11 1/8″ overall.  The double-edged blade itself measures 6 3/8″.  The crossguard and pommel are made of aluminum.   The handle is leather.  The premium metal scabbard is made of aluminum. 

S/SGT Duebner’s story will come with this knife.  He related his story to N.H. Stolp by hand written letter and Newspaper issue “The Medford Star” of Wed. Nov. 16th, 1994.  S/SGT Duebner served in Italy, Southern France, the Ardennes, Rhineland, and Central Europe. 

1 vintage U.S. World War II theater made Fairbairn-Sykes type stiletto fighting knife available.  This theater-made combat stiletto would make an important addition to any collection.

Theater knives are fighting knives made by soldiers in the field, or by craftsman here at home for soldiers.  Knives made by soldiers were often made with materials that were readily available to them–like plexiglass spacers made from enemy aircraft windshields, aluminum, brass, leather, and blades or handles from Issue fighting knives. 

This combat knife measures 10 5/16″ overall.  The blade itself measures 6 7/16″.  The blade measures 9/16″ wide.  There is no scabbard with this knife. 

1 vintage WW2 theater-modified V44 fighting knife available.  This V-44 is in excellent condition.  This World War II V-44 would make an important addition to any U.S. military or world militaria collection. 

The V-44 blade was made by Case.  The blade is stamped ‘CASE XX‘.  This knife measures 14 3/8″ overall.  The blade itself measures 9 7/16″.  This knife has an aluminum guard, and clear aircraft plexiglass handle.  The tang was painted red before the plexiglass was added.  The handle has a ‘U.S.’ collar badge imbedded on one side of the handle.  The reverse side of the handle has another crest inlayed in it.  The scabbard is original to the knife. 

1 vintage U.S. World War II premium theater/home front fighting knife available.  In 1942, the U.S. military didn’t have enough fighting knives to provide to its troops so there were War drives where hunting knives, etc. were donated by regular people for the War effort.  This WW2 knife is marked on the scabbard ‘LT. BERNARD B. BEARSON, TC    B-5968‘.  This theater combat knife would make an important addition to any collection.

Theater knives are fighting knives made by soldiers or craftsman here at home for soldiers, or were hunting knives, etc. that were donated by the citizens for the War effort.  Knives made by soldiers were often made with materials that were readily available to them–like plexiglass spacers made from enemy aircraft windshields, aluminum, brass, leather, and blades or handles from Issue fighting knives.  

This WW2 fighting knife is similar to a Foster Bros. knife.  The blade on this knife is etched ‘ROBINSON KNIFE   SPRINGVILLE, N.Y.  CARBON STEEL U.S.A.’.  This WWII knife measures 10 1/4″ overall.  The blade itself measures 5 1/2″.  The knife handle is also marked with the G.I.’s Serial #: ‘B5968’. 

1 vintage U.S. WW2 V-44 fighting knife available.  This theater V-44’s scabbard is marked with the Alaska theater.  This World War II V-44 would make an important addition to any collection. 

This V-44 is theater-made.  Note the unique brass guard, and the oversized handle.  This knife measures 15″ overall.  The blade itself measures 9 11/16″. 

The front of the scabbard is marked ‘1943   ALASKA   1945‘.  The back of the scabbard is marked ‘WW2  11TH AIR FORCE   SGT. JOHN B. SLIPP‘. 

The leg tie-down thong is woven into a combat braid.

This offering is for the exact knife that was photographed for Mike Silvey’s Knives of the United States Military–World War II.  This knife appears on page 192 of the book. 

Note the comparison photos.  This theater stiletto was made using the blade from a Fairbairn-Sykes commando knife.  The handle is made of aluminum, aircraft plexiglass, and colored spacers.  This knife measures 11 3/8″ overall.  The blade itself measures 7″. 

This offering is for the exact knife that was photographed for Mike Silvey’s Knives of the United States Military–World War II.  This knife appears on page 190 of the book. 

Note the comparison photos.  This knife was made with theater materials–aluminum, brass, and wood.  This knife measures 11 3/8″ overall.  The blade itself measures 6 1/2″. 

1 vintage U.S. World War II premium theater combat knife from the Roger Ballard collection available.  This premium knife comes with its original hand-drawn ID card that Roger Ballard made for this knife.  This knife would make an important addition to any collection.

This knife is from a known/ID’d maker.  This knife was made by “Bud” Fhaver in Oklahoma City during World War II.  According to Ballard’s ID’d card–“Fhaver worked at Tinker Air Force Base and had pattern knives on display in his work area so that soldiers could order the knife they needed.  Knives were made from scrapped airplane parts.”

This huge WWII combat knife measures 17 3/4″ overall.  The blade itself measures 12 3/4″. 

1 vintage U.S. World War II premium theater/home front fighting knife available.  The sheath has trench art on its front with the image of a 1940’s pin-up girl from back home.  This is an awesome fighting knife.  Collectors that like out of the ordinary theater knives will love this one. 

Theater knives are fighting knives made by soldiers or craftsman here at home for soldiers.  Knives made by soldiers were often made with materials that were readily available to them–like plexiglass spacers made from enemy aircraft windshields, aluminum, brass, leather, and blades or handles from Issue fighting knives.

This WWII theater knife was made with downed aircraft plexiglass.

This combat knife measures 12 3/16″ overall.  The blade itself measures 6 15/16″. 

1 set of 4 U.S. WW2 theater knives by the same maker! available.  This rare set of 4 matching theater knives would make an important addition to any collection.

Theater knives are fighting knives made by soldiers in the field, or by craftsman here at home for soldiers.  Knives made by soldiers were often made with materials that were readily available to them–like plexiglass spacers made from enemy aircraft windshields, aluminum, brass, leather, and blades or handles from Issue fighting knives.

It is so very unusual to find theater knives made by the same guy–literally, if you look through 1,000 theater knives, they will have been made by 1,000 different guys. 

These knives are recognizable as being by the same maker for a couple of traits.  First and foremost, note the shape of the pommel–same shape on each knife.  Second, note the brass spacers alternating with colored bakelite. 

Each blade is unique–one has the blade from a bayonet.  A second has a sticker blade shape.  The third knife has a long Bowie shape.  The last knife has saw teeth.  The knives vary in length from 11 5/16″ overall down to 16 7/8″ overall.

1 exceptional U.S. WW2 theater fighting knife available.  This G.I.-made theater fighting knife was made from a captured Japanese Samurai sword in the Pacific theater.  This theater fighting knife would make an incredible addition to any collection.

The blade was made from a centuries-old Samurai sword.  The blade has a beautiful, traditionally-made temper line.  The handle is from a Japanese WW2 military sword. 

This knife measures 11″ overall.  The blade itself measures 6″.