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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the blacksmith, post: 11077808, member: 20148&quot;]I doubt it Carman, I think if they were going to do all this work shaping this as well as it has been, then they would probably have used the time to make it as a working weapon. In this case the hand would simply slip along the blade and the blade almost certainly wouldn&#039;t penetrate the thick uniforms of the day.</p><p>However, possibly it was something that the soldier brought back from WWI and later had it worked into a letter opener and decorated. When the famous Red Baron was shot down in April 1918, all sorts of items were made by Aussie and British soldiers as souvenirs from various pieces of wreckage from his famous red Fokker Triplane.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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