Here's an ad for a hand-made knife with a scimitar-shaped blade marketed as a fighting knife. Notice the long, curved end on the hilt telling you this knife was made to stab and slash. Randall didn't put a price on his handcrafted pieces, but he offered a manual for using the knife for 35 cents, the 40s version of an instructional DVD, I guess. As for the Randall Made Knives company, it's still around and has been since 1937. The company took off during WWII after W.D. "Bo" Randall made a knife for a young sailor. His friends saw it and placed orders--a reporter got wind of it and wrote a story on him, and the rest is history. Bo's son, Gary, has run the company since Bo passed away in 1989. As an extra tidbit of knowledge, according to the Randall Made Knives website, their Model17 "Astro" was designed for and carried by the seven Mercury astronauts on America's first manned space flights. Astronaut Gordon Cooper did the final design and two of these knives are on display at the Smithsonian.