Ian
13th April 2006, 05:23 AM
This is an odd one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6619961175
Strikes me as a misericordia such as used to dispatch the wounded with a stab to the heart ("a little act of mercy"). But why would it have a US Army inscription? Perhaps picked up by a GI overseas who wrote his unit on the blade.
Where would it have come from? Looks like a nice knife, perhaps not very old, with a decent scabbard.
Thoughts??? :confused:
Ian,
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6619961175
Strikes me as a misericordia such as used to dispatch the wounded with a stab to the heart ("a little act of mercy"). But why would it have a US Army inscription? Perhaps picked up by a GI overseas who wrote his unit on the blade.
Where would it have come from? Looks like a nice knife, perhaps not very old, with a decent scabbard.
Thoughts??? :confused:
Ian,