I recently saw a Nazi knife that somewhat resembled a bowie knife in size and handle design, the blade tip was different, but when I first saw the handle I thought it was a bowie. The markings on the blade read “E. F. Horsner Solingen”. Does anybody know what this thing is?
Solingen is a town about 50 km to the north east of Cologne. It is famous for it’s cuttlery and knife making industry. The name is probably the manufacturer. You’ll have to sent a picture of the knife for us to identify it.
Jan
Sure it wasnt E.F. Horster Solingen???
So “Horster” instead of “Horsner”.
Anyhow it brought up some stuff on google. Although I just did a quick search … but I didnt see any that looked like a bowie knife. Hope this helps
I’m not sure on the spelling, so if I mispelled it, forgive me, but I dug up it along with some others that I have:
RAD Hewer (white handle):
http://germandressdaggers.com/RAD%20EM%20Hewer.htm
DLV Flyers:
http://germandressdaggers.com/DLV%20flyers%20knife.htm
Luftwaffe Issue 2 (yellow handle):
http://germandressdaggers.com/Luft2%20Dagger.htm
Red Cross Officer:
http://germandressdaggers.com/Red%20Cross%20Officer.htm
I also have a combat knife, which I believe to be British, that has spots of red on a silver odd-shaped handle, it is single-edged, feels balanced for throwing, and the only marks say “High Life”
If you could post a picture of the “British” knife, but I’m quite sure that it isn’t an issue one. The only combat knife issued by the British military was the Fairbairn-Sykes Commando dagger, which came in three different marks with small differences, AFAIK Mk2 was the most popular one. It was only issued to commandos and cerain airborne units (I know that soldiers of 7th KOSB, the glider infantry regiment, had them). The standard British Army knife was a small pocket knife with a hoof pick.
Occasionally soldiers would sharpen their 1907 bayonets for the SMLE and use them, especially the shortened Indian Army version, as multipurpose knifes, or they would barter a M3 knife from an American.
Jan
It has all the appearances of a Fairbairne-Sykes, but that it is single-edged, it would also work very well as a throwing knife, that’s another reason why I believe it could be British, but does anyone know where I can find pictures of these knives to identify mine, I would post pictures but my digital camera is MIA