After giving this some thought, I believe you must have this knife confused with the USMC stiletto which has a cast handle that would fall apart from looking at it wrong, due in part to a very poor casting. The Handle on the OSS knife is one of the strongest ever constructed on the type of handle and if far more durable than the FS type three and even the late type two knives. the grip is very stout and grip very well, unlike the type three. The type ones are so rare and at the present time I do not have on in stock to compare it against. We have in inventory several hundred in inventory, some of the best examples are made in India, Franceicon, early Englandicon and Germanicon post war. The present NATO are pretty close to the poorest examples in stock. As for the OSS It is truly one of the best and I would consider five hundred dollars for the knife alone and the scabbard is the hard part to get due to shabby construction, yes indeed it was made from a pancake and should have stayed that way, quoting the lat , great Teddy Roosevelt, sir's this is quite possible the poorest ideas I have ever seen. Most of the handful of OSS knives that actually made it over the sand found there ways into makeshift scabbards or scabbards made for short bayonets. If it were up to me it would have been issued in an US M8A1 right from the onset-HTH-SDH