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Home Products Non-Magnetic Dive Knife - Vietnam Era

Non-Magnetic Dive Knife - Vietnam Era

by Imperial

SKU 418573

Date Added 06/14/2022

# Available This product is out of stock

Original price $2,195.00

Price $1,240.00

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Overview

This Dive Knife by Imperial is very rare. It features a non-magnetic blade with sharpened top edge and saw teeth, .155" blade stock and 1.019" blade depth, hidden tang construction. The handle has a grey composite grip with nonmagnetic guard and butt. Comes with original scabbard. Has been used and carried by a US Military Member in Vietnam. Has scuffs and scratches, otherwise good condition. #157/61. It is also hand signed on the handle, can't tell what the initials are, but there is a date of 3-78 scratched into the grey part of the handle. We were told the blade is Beryllium.

Note from a customer about this knife: Just wanted to share some history on a knife you are selling SKU 418573 Imperial Nonmagnetic. What you are referencing as Hand Signed unknown initials is the Lo-Mu date or the last time the knife was run through a magnetometer to ensure that it met the Gamma rating for contact Lo-Mu or Nonmagnetic standards for the Navy. It's not someone's initials it is the letter L and the symbol for Mu kind of a weird M. Also I was originally told they where made of Beryllium, I believe some of the original ones might have been. The one you have is similar to the one I own and after some research I think these are made of Haynes Alloy not Cube they lack the copper color that CuBe has. I am a retired Navy EOD and specialized in Mine Counter Measures for most of my career. Just thought I would share so you knew a little more about it.

Product Details

Blade Length 7.25

Overall Length 12

Weight (oz) 10.7

Source Previously owned

Additional Specs

Knife Type Has Sheath, Hidden Tang

Blade Material Other

Blade Details Has Serrations, Dagger, Spear Point

Handle Material Metallic

Other Details Tactical

About the Maker

Imperial

The Imperial Knife Company had its roots at the Empire Knife Company in Winsted, Connecticut. In 1916, two men named Felix and Michael Miranda moved from Frosolone Molise in Italy to Providence, Rhode Island to be near its jewelry industry and began making skeletons for “waldemar,” or pocket watch chain knives. With their friend Domenic Fazzano as manager, they established the Imperial Knife Company, which would grow to at one point be the largest knife manufacturer in the United States.The company developed a number of successful innovations in the manufacture of commercial value-priced folding pocket knives.

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