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JEAN TANAZACQ RARE RENDITION OF FAMOUS ALL-PURPOSE FIGNTING KNIFE DESIGNED IN WWII-ONLY 3 EVER PRODUCED!
Guns International #: 101284227 Seller's Inventory #:
Category: Knives - Custom - Knives
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Seller: Sapajou
Member Since: 5/22/13
First Name: dominique
State: New York
Country: United States
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Seller: Private Seller
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Description:
Randall #1 by Jean Tanazacq During a professional trip to the town of Bordeaux in1973, Tanazacq visited the Prevot establishments which were considered to be one of France's largest armory store of an impeccable reputation and bought "The Gun Digest book of Knives," by B.R. Hughes and Jack Lewis. This particular book rekindled his interest in daggers and knives, and from then on, he got everything he had been penciling since childhood on this subject for a distant business project. Flipping through the book, he choose two knives profile which he thought could be of interest to hunters and military personnel and it turns out that these were a Randall # 1 All-Purpose Fighting Knife and the model # 3 Hunter. From the shown pictures in the book, he re drew the two models and gradually began doing his researches about steel and its implementation. He threw himself out, outside his professional activity and out of time, in quest for information and manufacturing technique, as and when encounters and machining opportunities. Simultaneously, he drew his own models inspired by the military aspect of French knives, American, Asian and the hunting aspect of a knife from 1780 preserved at the museum in Charleville. He used the " Randall's" as technological demonstrations in order to gain experience to produce his ow line of knives. Currently he still have a "Randall" # 1 quenched and tempered and few remaining"Randall's" # 3 just cut which therefore have never been produced. In all he had sold to collectors over the past four decades no more than 2 or 3 of these copies of Randall's. Knife bears the extrem,ely rare "double Stamp Logo" on blade (Map of France and the renowned wild boar marking).
8" blade of 440-C steel stock, double brass guard, exotic wood handle, brass butt plate. Contained in a very beautiful habdcrafted leather scabbard. Thnkas for looking.
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