UNOPENED VIETNAM ONTARIO PILOTS SURVIVAL KNIFE 4/73 DATE NO RESERVE! - Collectible Knives at GunBroker.com : 894255641
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Price seems high on that one, when I was young every second man carried one of those. The ones we had didn't have the metal shroud chape on the scabbard.
If it's new, unopened and unused why put Vietnam in the title, unless there is documentary evidence to prove that this particular knife was stored in a US military warehouse, in Vietnam during the 1970's. One could equally swap the word for anything else that was going on in America at the time. If the same knife was being sold in the UK the "Vietnam" in the title would probably be swapped for "SAS".
The one I was issued did not have the metal tip either (I still have it, it's still sharp, and the leather sheath has been well preserved). I personally have no problem with this being described as a "Vietnam" knife since we were all issued this knife, at least in my circle of USAF folks. On the other hand, I also saw this issued in CONUS as well.