Jimmy Lile Button Folding Knife, No Dot Mark, # 007

2.25" blade length. 6.25" overall with hilt. Straight single edge drop point button lock folding knife with nickel plated bolsters retained by two pins along the backstrap, and polished horn grip scales. Left blade is struck LILE with no dot, while the right is marked 007, indicating it was made during James B. Lile's lifetime and was number 7 in the series. The bolsters are retained by two crosspins along the backstrap, and the interior backstrap is marked 1987 U.S. Pat# 4148140.

A full time knifemaker from 1971, James "Jimmy" Lile continued to produce handmade knives until his death in 1991. The company now bearing his name continues to offer a wide variety of knives following Lile's original patterns. The best known of these being the enormous clip-point serrated bowie knives that Lile produced for the movie "Rambo: First Blood", starring Sylvester Stallone. In the case of this lot, the signature to the left ricasso indicates that it was made during Lile's lifetime. An attractive example of a unique pattern of folding knife made by one of America's most well known and respected contemporary knifemakers.

From the Collection of Jeffrey W. Sanner

This lot is located in Cincinnati.