Our Ivory Jacks exclusive Alaskan Upswept collection James Behring made fixed blade knife features made in the US hand forged 01 tool anodized steel. Each handle is unique featuring an artifact or fossilized material. Display stand included with purchase. This exclusive collection is featured in the July 2020 military issue of Blade Magazine. Our artifact harpoon heads are found by Siberian Yupik inhabitants of Saint Lawrence Island, Alaska and were originally used for whaling. Each artifact is an extraordinarily rare, one of a kind piece of historical art. Artifacts are a minimum of 400 years and up to thousands of years old. Most knives include a hand tooled and custom made leather sheath and zippered nylon carrying case. They measures approximately 6.5" to 11" long. Made in the USA Ivory Jacks has been family owned and operated for over 40 years! Ivory Jacks specializes in eco conscious prehistoric woolly mammoth ivory & tooth, fossil walrus ivory, and naturally shed moose antler jewelry. As a child, Kurt Tripp, co-owner and Ivory Jacks visionary, would see mammoth tusks that had been unearthed by the spring floods on the banks of the Yukon River near his childhood home of Fairbanks, Alaska. Kurt would play around these immense tusks and bones that had been collected by his grandfather, a riverboat pilot, and his father, an avid rock hound and outdoorsman. He was curious about what they were and where they came from, how long they had been buried and what the massive creature looked like that had carried them. Unbeknownst to young Kurt, this profound fascination ultimately led to the business he would create with his wife, Francine, years later.
