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Vintage Lockback J78.76

by Bone, Ralph

SKU 1075222

Date Added 11/15/2024

# Available 1

Original price $750.00

Price $530.00

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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 rosewood scales, brass liners and steel backspacer. Stamped J78.76 on blade. Has some light scratches and patina, otherwise excellent condition for its age. Comes with original brown leather sheath.

This one, dated in 1978, was made by De Leon; Bone left the company in mid’76.  De Leon left 12/78. 

Note from Huxley Walters:

This is a very nice “Folding Hunter”, the seventy-sixth one, made by Enedino De Leon in 1978 at the Ralph Bone Knife Co.  A few years before his death, Ralph Bone told me that his favorite knife maker was Enedino De Leon, a Marine veteran, who he took into his shop, in 1969, right out of the Marine Corp, and trained to be a master knife maker.  Commencing about 1972, De Leon made all of the standard production knives made, thereafter, at the Ralph Bone Knife Company. - Huxley

This “Ralph Bone Knife Co" knife was the 76th four inch blade “Folding Hunter” made by Enedino De Leon in 1978, as evidenced by the serial number, about four years after Bone left the company.   When Charles Hipp purchased the company in 1976, he totally changed the serial numbering system for all knife models of the company.  After the purchase, De Leon made all the knives sold by the company, until he departed in 12/1978.  - Huxley

Product Details

Blade Length 3.75

Overall Length 9

Closed Length 5.25

Weight (oz) 9

Source Previously owned

Additional Specs

Blade Material Unknown

Blade Details Clip Point

Handle Material Metallic, Wood

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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