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Puma Knife: 1984 Limited Edition 715 4 Star Wanderer Schooner Ship Scrimshawed Handle Folding Knife in Presentation Box
Beautiful mint condition 1984 vintage Puma model 715 'Wanderer' Schooner Ship Scrimshawed Commemorative Folding Knife in Leatherette Display Box with Puma Label and matching warranty card.
Beautifully Scrimshawed with the Schooner Ship 'WANDERER' on one side of the Orange Micarta Handle
This is a very limited edition knife collectors knife.
Comes in the original solid Deluxe Leatherette Presentation box with key
(No longer available from Puma Germany so now very rare and collectable)
This is a beautiful and original Puma 4 Star model 715 folding lock blade knife with Orange Ivory Micarta handle in original velvet lined Leatherette presentation box
The Knife is mint and stamped on the blade is 715**** and on the other side is PUMA GERMANY STAINLESS.
It has Brass Bolsters and Orange Ivory Micarta Handle.
The handle is Orange Ivory Micarta and beautifully scrimshawed with the lock on the knife etched with the serial number of the knife which is 18481 denoting that the knife was made in the 1st half of 1984.
Blade is a mirror shine finish and ay marks in the photographs are purely from the mirror finish blade.
For a knife that is 37 years old it is in mint condition, unused, unsharpened and totally original.
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SOS#00675
PLEASE NOTE THIS INFORMATION WAS TAKEN FROM WIKIPEDIA REGARDING THE SHIP We cannot verify that the information is correct and it is attached here for your interest.
Wanderer was the penultimate documented ship to bring an illegal cargo of people from Africa to the United States, landing at Jekyll Island, Georgia on November 28, 1858. It was the last to carry a large cargo, arriving with some 400 people. Clotilda, which transported 110 people from Dahomey in 1860, is the last known ship to bring enslaved people from Africa to the US.
Originally built in New York as a pleasure schooner, The Wanderer was purchased by Southern businessman Charles Augustus Lafayette Lamar and an investment group, and used in a conspiracy to import kidnapped people illegally. The Atlantic slave trade had been prohibited under US law since 1808. An estimated 409 enslaved people survived the voyage from the Congo to Georgia. Reports of the smuggling outraged the North. The federal government prosecuted Lamar and other investors, the captain and crew in 1860, but failed to win a conviction.
During the American Civil War, Union forces took over the ship and used it for various military roles. It was decommissioned in 1865, converted to merchant use, and lost off Cuba in 1871.
In November 2008, the Jekyll Island Museum unveiled an exhibit dedicated to the enslaved Africans on Wanderer.[1] That month also marked the unveiling of a memorial sculpture on southern Jekyll Island dedicated to the enslaved people who were landed there.
