Ontario Knife Company "Operation Iraqi Freedom" Lt

[Quarterbore]

With all the knives that I have manged to get added to the other sections of the website I am glad to finally add an Ontario Knife Company M9 Bayonet that is quite interesting. I found this on EBAY as seems to be the easiest place for me to watch and find M9s to add to the website (hint... I would love to see other people posting here sharing their own knives... did I say HINT.. HINT?)

Oh well, more monolog of me collecting photos of M9s... this is a commerative knife and it is listed on EBAY at the time of this posting:

Here is a link to the auction

Here is the description from the auction:

Quote:
You are bidding on one RARE brand new in the factory box with the blade having never been inserted into the scabbard USMC commemorative M9 bayonet. This is 1 of only 500 produced by the Ontario Knife Co. (OKC) to commemorate "OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM". This is a true collectors item as there were only 500 produced and are no longer available. High bidder to pay with a USPS money order, cashiers check or PayPal plus $12.50 USPS Priority Mail shipping. Please e-mail with any questions or for additional photos.

Following are photos from the auction:

[Quarterbore]

Special thanks to strocker3 from eBAY for allowing me to use his images and description on the website!

[Old-Smithy]

I got one of these shortly after getting my BCN commemerative M9 from the BCN network (with only 75 made is this the rarest M9 variation?). A very nice piece, there seems to be several other commemeratives to specific units as well. I ws suprised these were not more expensive, having got mine for not a lot more than an issue one woudl cost me in the UK

[Lancelot]

Nice blade, and nice pictures of the blade!

[redshanks]

Jeez, I wonder how long before the Franklin Mint is going to offer their own version of a commemorative M9?

[marine_pfc]

I've been watching ebay, and there have been 3 USMC versions listed for sale by unnaturalone(2530).

copy and paste these for auction results (#1 & #2 listed in the order sold, third is up for grabs currently as of 4/19/2006 and was listed within an hour of me posting this)

(#1) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6615957377&rd=1&sspage name=STRK%3AMEDW%3AIT&rd=1

(#2) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6620245096&rd=1&sspage name=STRK%3AMEDW%3AIT&rd=1

(#3) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6623456216&rd=1&sspage name=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&rd=1

#1 went for $92.03

#2 went for $177.50

#3 ???

anyone who has one, how much did you pay?

[porterkids]

I purchased an Army and a USMC model in October 2003. They were $129 each. That price has seemed to hold steady on the retail market with ocassional better deals to be had on ebay.

Concerning redshank's comment on the Franklin Mint; they produced a Desert Storm M9 bayonet and commemorative plaque back in 1991. The American Historical Foundation had a DS commemorative the same year. One of these is up on ebay right now.

http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/28D...spagenameZWDVW
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