RARE WW2 PAL USMC Mk 2 Knife with Leather Sheath-Red Spacer 7\" Blade For Sale

RARE WW2 PAL USMC Mk 2 Knife with Leather Sheath-Red Spacer 7\
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RARE WW2 PAL USMC Mk 2 Knife with Leather Sheath-Red Spacer 7\" Blade:
$330.00

Very Rare WW2 PAL USMC 1219C2 (aka Mark 2) Combat Knife with Original Leather Sheath. Excellent condition.The knife is 12 inches long with a 7-inch blade and 5-inch handle. The blade has the original gray Parkerized finish over at least 95% of the blade. The blade is very sharp with no chipping, rust or oxidation. The leather washer handle shows signs of use (dark from hand oil and shiny) but is in excellent condition with no significant cuts or gouges. The handle has the larger red spacer and smaller black spacer at each end of the handle. The round metal pommel cap is held in place with a compression pin. The handle and pommel cap are tight and in excellent condition.The leather sheath appears to be original to the knife and has no markings. The sheath has the complete original stitchingand domed metal rivets. The sheath is in very good condition with some very slight age cracking and darkening, but does not have any significant cuts, tears, cracks, or markings. The snap handle strap is in-place with the snaps working. A leather tie string is affixed to the bottom end of the sheath.
I have never seen one of these PAL USMC knifes in this good of condition.
This style of knife is popularly known as the \"Ka-Bar.\" This combat knife was originally adopted by the USMC in Nov. 1942 as the 1219C2 Combat Knife and was later designated the \"Mark 2 Knife, Fighting Utility.\" The Mark 2 knife was manufactured by several companies, including PAL Blade Company, Union Cutlery Company (Ka-Bar), Camillus, and Robeson.
According to a two-part article by Frank Trzaska in Dec. 2005 and Jan. 2006 Knife World Magazine regarding the USMC 1219C2 knives, PAL Blade Company was awarded a contract (NOM39096) in January 1943 for 100,000 USMC knives. They completed the contract by March of that year. This was the only contract PAL had for the USMC 1219C2 knife. The knifes were simply marked with \"PAL\" on one side of the ricasso and \"USMC\" on the other side. No other Mark 2 style knives made during or after WW2 were marked this way. Therefore, this particular knife was made during the period from January to March 1943 as part of a small contract for 100,000 knifes. PAL manufactured many Mark 2 knifes during WW2 (over 1 million), but they were all marked US Navy or USN, not USMC.
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