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Create my profile now!Ka-Bar trademarked as KA-BAR) is the contemporary popular name for the combat knife first adopted by the United States Marine Corps in November 1942 as the 1219C2 combat knife (later designated the USMC Mark 2 combat knife or Knife, Fighting Utility), and subsequently adopted by the United States Navy as the U.S. Navy utility knife, Mark 2.Ka-Bar is the name of a related knife manufacturing company, Ka-Bar Knives., Inc. (formerly Union Cutlery Co.), of Olean, New York, a subsidiary of the Cutco Corporation. This Mark 1 model has a blued 12 ¾ cm blade (23 ½ cm overall) with black fibre spacers in the grip. One side of the ricasso is stamped ‘KA-BAR OLEAN N.Y.’ and the other USN. The scabbard is thick brown leather held with 7 studs with KA-BAR printed to the front. All of the stitching and studs are intact. See ‘U.S. Military Knives Bayonets and Machetes Book III’ No21 page 81 by M.H. Cole. The price includes UK delivery. 20196.