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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Decoligny" data-source="post: 4370977" data-attributes="member: 41077">Hunting knife marked “Robeson, Germany”.Made between 1891-1895.  Robeson became Camillus in 1898.Found while rappelling in the Wichita Mountains.  Large rock (bowling ball size) came loose while climbing up a steep hill.  Saw a straight edge in the dirt.  Pulled out a rusted knife with a leather ring and aluminum spacer handle.  Leather and aluminum spacers crumbled to dust in my hand.  Under a full 1/4” of rust was a beautiful knife.  Cleaned and polished beautifully, pitting adds character.  Holds a shaving sharp edge.  Made a deer antler handle to replace the rotted one.  It had to have been buried for decades to be buried so deeply under so large a rock on such a steep hill.  I like to think some cowboy might have lost it in the early 1900s.</blockquote>