It makes sense that it was refinished after a major overhaul like it had. You call that a saber tip, I'd have called it a Bowie point... Nice looking blade, wish they'd issued me something like that when I started out.
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It makes sense that it was refinished after a major overhaul like it had. You call that a saber tip, I'd have called it a Bowie point... Nice looking blade, wish they'd issued me something like that when I started out.
I would call it a bowie tip also but was trying to be consistent with what the various descriptions I read called it. They said sabre and spear were the two types of tips.
French Foreign Legion fighting knife. 20+ years ago, IMA had a large number of these for sale. All looked exactly like this one, they were in new, condition and I almost bought one (or two or....), they were not terribly expensive.