Rare LanCay ?

[SignalSoldier]

Bill Porter is on target. The Lan-Cay fuller blade M-9 on Ebay is an original Lan-Cay production item from 2003. It has a 1992 fuller blade that was part of a batch rejected by Lan-Cay quality control in 1992. The rejected blades were shelved and forgotten at that time. In 2003 the blades were found, brought out of storage, embossed with Lan-Cay and assembled on 2003 dated scabbards (quantity unknown). Lan-Cay owners decided not to sell them as they were oddities. So, at least a dozen of these 2003 M-9's were shelved and forgotten again. In early 2010 I contacted Lan-Cay and inquired about the possibility of these defective knives still being in existance. To my delight a search was conducted and the knives were located. Over a period of about a year I was able to convince Lan-Cay to allow me access to them. Now they are in my possession. Note the smooth area where saw teeth would normally appear. It is my guess that that was the defect that prevented them from sale to the U.S. Army. It was also the reason they were shelved in 2003 rather than being sold commercially. My honorable friends at Lan-Cay had no intentions of passing these knives off as 1992 or defect free knives. In fact, the sale of these knives to me was only done with my promise not to give, sell or trade in any way that would comprimise their intent to deal with total honesty. I will keep one and pass the others along to other collectors. At present I have around 200 M9's and will try not to loose my 2003 fuller blade knife in storage as happened in 1992 and 2003. I have 35 years in uniform and am still counting. Not that I have reach perfection but I press on. Semper Fi