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Old 03-30-2014, 10:06 PM
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Amazing... ask and you shall be answered.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Rand...item3cdf007fba

Here is a new posting on E-bay... a low S knife with a coolie cap. The pictures are terrible, out of focus ... and I've asked the seller for some good pictures... but it looks like the round brazed nut connection might be used for this knife.



If so, it pushes some dominos. First, I might be able to ask this gentleman if it looks like the round "nut" is indeed brazed to the coolie cap and get some confirmation about the genre. But most important, it could mean that coolie caps with the round brazed connection could have become the standard used by RMK by mid-60s.

Finally, the use of the brass tang nut to hold the coolie cap on my 12-9, a method it would be reasonable to assume probably pre-dates the round brazed connection, would be defined earlier.... giving more certainty that the knife is pre-1965...more likely about 1963, which has already been avowed.

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