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Home Products Vintage Folding Hunter Lockback J1171

Vintage Folding Hunter Lockback J1171

by Bone, Ralph

SKU 1075220

Date Added 09/14/2023

# Available This product is out of stock

Price $995.00

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Overview

This Vintage Lockback by Ralph Bone features a satin finished blade with nail nick. The handle is comprised of brass dovetailed bolsters and yellow Westinghouse paper micarta scales, brass liners and steel backspacer. Stamped J1171 on blade. Has some light scratches, otherwise excellent condition for its age.

Note from Huxley Walters:

The listed “Folding Hunter”, Serial No. J1171, also, was made by De Leon and is the highest serial numbered Model J that I have observed to-date.   In my book, “The Artistry Of Ralph P Bone”, I estimated there were a total of about 900 Models J made by, both, Bone and De Leon.  However, the serial number on this knife proves that, at least 1071 were made.  All knife models made at Ralph Bone Knife Co. commenced with serial number 101.  

The new owner, Hipp, bought the company in mid-1976.  De Leon made all the knives at the company from mid 74 (the date Bone left the company) to the end of 78, at which time, De Leon, also, left.  Sometime in 1978, Hipp, changed the serial number system, by which the new serial number system commenced with the model letter, a two-digit number representing the year, followed by an additional two-digit number, representing the quality made that year to-date.  Hipp changed everything.  He had been a saw blade maker; De Leon taught him whatever he may have learned about knife-making.   Huxley

Arizona Custom Knives, currently, lists for sale J1171, the highest serial number Model J “Folding Hunter” that I’m aware of, indicating that, at least, 1071 Models J were made, in two primary blade lengths.  (All standard production knife models commenced with serial number 101.)  To my understanding, three inch and four inch blade Models J were serialized together.  

In my book, I estimated that the total standard production of Models J at Ralph Bone Knife Co. totaled about 900.  I recall that Ralph, also, told a fellow enthusiast that he didn’t recall any Model J numbered in the 1000s.  De Leon would have made all those thereafter.  One, always, stands correction!

De Leon’s company offered  3” 4” and a whopping 6” Model J.

 

Product Details

Blade Length 3.75

Overall Length 9

Closed Length 5.25

Weight (oz) 8.9

Source Previously owned

Additional Specs

Blade Material Unknown

Blade Details Clip Point

Handle Material Metallic, Micarta

About the Maker

Bone, Ralph

Ralph Bone made high quality handmade fighting and sportsman's knives in Lubbock, Texas from 1964 to 1970. Bone was best known as a custom knife maker, for the first one half of his life and later, as a custom gun maker and highly innovative master engraver, which he pursued until his death. Actually, Ralph Bone made his first knife when he was nine years old. He produced knives, thereafter, until he died. Enedino De Leon joined the company in 1969, as a Marine Corp veteran. Bone taught De Leon to make knives and conveyed to me, late in his life, that De Leon was his favorite knife maker. He also made knives in association with Ed Spencer (the precision rifle barrel maker), G W Stone (Bone made the knives; Stone did the marketing), Sam Arnett (financial partner of Ralph Bone Knife Co).

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