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The knife has a mosaic white pearl type handle and is 834 closed, in near mint condition with original box. Fightn rooster was founded in 1975 by sterling buster. All blade tangs are stamped frank buster celebrated cutlery solingen, germany and it has three back springs. This is a 2 blade one arm man doctors knife with genuine mother of pearl scales. My dad and cuz, frank buster, the founder and present day owner of fightn rooster cutlery out of lebanon, tn were friends for 35 years. Five frank buster fightn rooster folding knives ebth.
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