what the helle is this?

[bushtuckerman]

Toddy's thread reminded of the helle knife i aquired recently. Picked it up for a tenner at a local wartime type random surplas shop down some dark alley in bristol somewhere. I thought that price was pretty good, it's laminated, but thin and pretty flexible. It says: S.&S.HELLE, HOLMEDAL, NORGE on the blade (bit of a noob and took a picture of the wrong side!), and NORWAY on the sheath, which is split along the side (maybe it dried out or is even the wrong sheath, because it no longer fits).

The handle is stacked leather discs, and the pommel seems to be steel, but it's very chromy looking. It's a solid handle and very nice to use.

Does anyone have one of these? the guy in the shop said he got it a few years ago from a collector who had it for about 20 years, and i can't find one anywhere else so assume it could be even older. It'd be interesting to find out about it.

I noticed that the handle looks very similar to a knife of troy's, in the gallery.

cheers guys

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[Hoodoo]

That's a piece of junk. Very dangerous and could fall apart at any time. Better to sell it to me and get it out of circulation before it hurts someone.

 

[bushtuckerman]

i'd get more for the shipping costs!

 

[Tor helge]

Earlier another fellow (don`t remember wich forums) asked about a discontinued Helle knife and I told him to send a mail to Helle asking about it.
He got the information he wanted.
Do the same . Maybe you have luck.

The adress is www.helle.no

Tor

 

[bushtuckerman]

cheers for that Tor helge, i'll give them a mail. any subjective members thoughts appreciated too

 

[bushtuckerman]

no such luck with the email so far. maybe they're very busy...