My brother bought an old '88 car to fix up, and we brought it back Monday. Today he was cleaning it up, and he just came in and handed me a fairly large knife in a leather sheath, and said, "Look what I found under the front seat".

Not being heavily into knives, I was wondering if anyone could maybe identify what kind it is, and what use the odd shape might be for. Sorry, I don't have photo capability.

The overall length is 12.25". The cutting blade is 6.5", is thicker in the center (lengthwise) and has a definite wavy shape on both sides. This not what I would call serrated at all; the blade is wavy like looking down on a snake ~~ about three "waves" per side. The metal of the blade is one piece, and goes right through and past the end of the wooden handle.

Stamped into the center (approx) of the blade is "Stainless Pakistan".

The guard is 3.5" across, and 3/16" thick, sort of in the shape of a pair of extended bat wings, with a V notched into the lower part of each 'wing'.

The handle is very common-looking, made of two pieces of reddish (stained?) wood with the metal sandwiched in between, with three metal almost-quarter-inch 'spots' holding the wood to the metal.

The back end of the knife past the wood handle extends a little over .75" and splays out into a modified cross shape with a hole in it. The top of the 'cross' is modified into just a sort of rounded point.

I'm not even suggesting that this is some rare and valuable knife, but we are just curious as to what kind of design it might be, and what that funny wavy blade would be used for.

Thanks for any information you might be able to provide.

Sue