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Posted by Michaelson from leospace047.utsi.edu on October 04, 2000 at 16:01:28:

In Reply to: Re: ABOUT THE INDY KNIFE, FORGOT ABOUT THAT< IHAVE THE ANSWER... posted by Anejo Joe on October 04, 2000 at 15:46:51:

: : : I had made, a couple of years ago, extensive research on the knife, and finally got in contact with an extra in the Egypt scenes through a friend. There were 8 knive copies. They were made of a Cow Bone and were stainless steel, but I dont think they had stainless steel back then.

: : Thanks for this info. I've heard everything from it being Case XX to this story, but considering everything else that has come out of this movie, I never could believe that they actually had something from just off the shelf, other than the gloves. I agree, I don't believe SS was available until mid way through WWII. I'm currently wearing a 1943 vintage wrist watch, all stainless steel case, so it wasn't to long after the date of the movie that it actually became available for commercial use. Regards. Michaelson

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: Even if stainless steel was available in the 1930's, it would probably not have been used in a knife blade he carried. The better knives today are not made of stainless, but they require a lot of care.

..but then there are a LOT of things that show up in that movie that didn't really exist until much later. It's just interesting they'd produce something like this knife (as stated above, a total of 8 in all) where it appears for all of maybe 20 seconds screen time. Ya never know about Hollywood. Regards. Michaelson

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: : : : I had made, a couple of years ago, extensive research on the knife, and finally got in contact with an extra in the Egypt scenes through a friend. There were 8 knive copies. They were made of a Cow Bone and were stainless steel, but I dont think they had stainless steel back then.

: : : Thanks for this info. I've heard everything from it being Case XX to this story, but considering everything else that has come out of this movie, I never could believe that they actually had something from just off the shelf, other than the gloves. I agree, I don't believe SS was available until mid way through WWII. I'm currently wearing a 1943 vintage wrist watch, all stainless steel case, so it wasn't to long after the date of the movie that it actually became available for commercial use. Regards. Michaelson

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: : Even if stainless steel was available in the 1930's, it would probably not have been used in a knife blade he carried.  The better knives today are not made of stainless, but they require a lot of care.

: ..but then there are a LOT of things that show up in that movie that didn't really exist until much later. It's just interesting they'd produce something like this knife (as stated above, a total of 8 in all) where it appears for all of maybe 20 seconds screen time. Ya never know about Hollywood. Regards. Michaelson

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