Many serial numbered Al Mar knives where made while Al Mar ran the company. You will need to know about the early patterns to help you lock down any knife’s time line.

Early copy from an Al Mar brochure:
This series incorporates the unique concept in lockblade technology, the exclusive Front Lock, originally developed through the joint efforts of custom knifemakers W.T. Fuller and Harvey McBurnette.

Al Mar was working for an industrial design firm in Los Angeles in 1967. Gerber's first designer retired about this time and Al Mar joined Gerber Legendary Blades in 1967 or 68 (American Blade magazine Dec. 1976) after Pete Gerber gave Al the task of coming up with an aluminum handle for a kitchen knife. Pete Gerber thought the project was very successful and offered Al the position of design chief. Did you know that Al is credited with designing the Gerber Mark I.

He left Gerber in 1979 to start Al Mar Knives and he died in October of 1992. Al was 54 years old. The new owners have now discontinued most of the original models and moved to other makers on the remaining models. This leaves the knives made while Al was in control of the company very desirable and collectible! Mar is Chinese for horse.

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