Original U.S. WWII USN / USMC Early Blade-Marked Mark 2 KA-BAR Fighting Knife in Leather Sheath - Marking Scrubbed German Artwork & Posters and is fitted with a

and is fitted with a very nice checkered slab-sided curved grip

and they seem to be less popular than the other styles

An apocryphal story holds that at Lafayette's tomb

bearing serial number 12264

This code corresponds to the maker Metallwarenfabrik Hermann Nier

Original U.S. WWII USN / USMC Early Blade-Marked Mark 2 KA-BAR Fighting Knife in Leather Sheath - Marking Scrubbed German Artwork & Posters and is fitted with aOriginal Item: Only One Available. The originator of the KA BAR trademark, Union Cutlery Co, began using the name in 1923, having received a letter from a fur trapper who had used the knife to kill a wounded bear which attacked him when his rifle jammed. According to company records, the letter was only partially legible; "ka bar" could be read, as fragments of the phrase "kill a bear". In 1923, the company adopted the name Ka Bar from the "bear