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These small Western "midget" knives we're produced as souvenir knives for various tourist outlets, National Parks and Monuments, and mountain gift shops in the 1940's.These knives appear in the 1941 catalog pages of the book: Knifemakers Who Went West, the biography of Western knives.
These midget knives came in two different celluloid handle materials, opalized pearl (which is often called cracked ice), and goldstone. The handles are held onto the blade with two small brass pins. This example has goldstone celluloid handles.
Some were actually hot stamped into the handle with names like: Boulder, Sedalia, Estes Park, Denver, and Omaha. Most of these knives were unstamped. ( I have never seen a stamped example, much too small an area to stamp, I think another "urban legend")These knives came with a hand sewn sheath, each sheath a different color of leather. This sheath is some sort of thin leather.
A great conversation piece for sure. The blades are actually flat ground, and were made of the same steel as Western's other knives.
