jack knife

A 1940’s German “Sheffield Steel” jack knife that has a clip point blade and is wooden at the bottom along with brass metal in between the blade and bottom part. Carol Morphy (nee Starks) says that her grandfather J.O. Decker was a Justice of the Peace for the area and hosted Prisoners Of War (POW) at the Decker farm during WWII. This knife was confiscated from a German POW at the farm. J.O. Decker had German ancestry and could speak a smattering of German. Carol also believes the knife could have been fixed to a rifle like a bayonet, as the knife has a metal attachment at the end.