Cleveland Cutlery Company Large Muskrat Knife Bone! Minty! & Rare!

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HI, This auction is for a beautiful old two bladed large Muskrat knife.Please see pictures for tang markings.This knife features chip & crack free beautiful genuine bone.This old knife has never been used,carried or the blades re-sharpened.The blades have really powerful snap with only very min-able side play,but certainly nothing to be concerned with in my opinion because it really is a very minute amount.I'm only trying to be as accurate as I can be.Both blades also feature a very solid half stop position which I found to be rare in these Muskrat patterns.There is no pattern number on this knife.I wasn't able to find out a lot about this beautiful old knife,but according to my book on cutlery marking by Goins' page 60 the Cleveland Cutlery of Germany first used this marking way back in 1925 and the book goes on to say that the markings on this knife is no way connected to the later Cleveland Cutlery Company located in Cleveland,Ohio.The only flaws that I can see to mention with beautiful old pocket knife,would be a few tiny carbon spots in places mostly on the back spring as seen in picture.This knife is actually really super clean inside and out,especially for it's age.I think that most would say that this old pocket knife is in mint condition,especially for it's age,but since I just don't use the word mint lightly,I will say read more