![]() ![]() ![]() This is part of the initial design artwork created by Bud Holzmann and submitted to Gerber. Well, she actually bought it, given that they weren’t about to sell a dagger like that to a 13-year-old kid. To this day, I don’t know how I did it, but I managed to convince my mom to loan me the money to buy it. For perspective, that’s about $140 today. If memory serves, sticker price was around $50 or so. ![]() It was double-edged, quite sharp, and I was hopelessly smitten with it. On this particular trip, I found a boot knife called the Mark 1. It was fairly small as far as mall stores went, but it had all sorts of sharp and pokey goodies. “From the jungles of Vietnam to the belts and boots of countless civilians across the country, these knives have seen plenty of carry time.” We didn’t go there often, as it was the mall that was farthest from home, but whenever we did, I made sure to stop in and check out the wares at Cutlery World. I was a newly minted teenager, and for some reason lost to the mists of time, I’d gone with my mother to the Mayfair Mall. Articles Features Knives On the Cover 0 Comments 1 HISTORIC BLADES: REMEMBERING GERBER’S ICONIC MARK 1 AND MARK II ![]()
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