kcw
03-08-2011, 04:56
Anyone know if there's much interest in WWII Kennedy fighting knives? I have a sheath for one (stamped 227S at the top). It's something that my late father picked up off of a pile of stuff outside of a battalion aid station in France. Has his name and serial # on the back. He told me that he only wanted it for something to put a PAL RH36 knife, which was also on the pile, into. Apparently he figured that the PAL would make a good post war hunting knife.
My dad replaced the Kennedy sheath just after the war with a sheath more appropriate to the PAL. The Kennedy has laid in the tool cabinet ever since. It's in pretty nice shape, I know my dad put neatsfoot oil on it a couple of times over the decades. If need be, it could still service well "as is".
There's not a lot of info in Kennedy's. I think this sheath might be a later issue as it has no makers mark (just the 227S) and has five, rather than three, brass rivets.
I'd appreciate any info in the sheath, or ideas as to where to sell it.
Thanks, KCW
My dad replaced the Kennedy sheath just after the war with a sheath more appropriate to the PAL. The Kennedy has laid in the tool cabinet ever since. It's in pretty nice shape, I know my dad put neatsfoot oil on it a couple of times over the decades. If need be, it could still service well "as is".
There's not a lot of info in Kennedy's. I think this sheath might be a later issue as it has no makers mark (just the 227S) and has five, rather than three, brass rivets.
I'd appreciate any info in the sheath, or ideas as to where to sell it.
Thanks, KCW