To Whom It May Concern:

The Tom Brown Tracker knife has recently achieved a high degree of notoriety. It plays an integral role in the 2003 Paramount Pictures release of The Hunted. TOPS USA is the only authorized manufacturer of the Tom Brown Tracker Knife. Anyone else claiming to be an authorized manufacturer of the Tracker is not currently authorized by Tom Brown. TOPS began manufacturing the knife under license from Tom Brown in November of 2001. The Tom Brown Tracker was designed by Tom Brown Jr., over the course of seven years, and was manufactured by several knife makers up through 1999. None of the former manufactures are currently licensed to make the Tom Brown Tracker.

P.S. Mr. Dave Beck, one of the four previous makers of the “Tom Brown Tracker Knife”; was in fact offered the option to manufacture this knife on two separate occasions in the year 2000. Mr. Beck did in fact decline, both times. He also sent a letter to Tom Brown stating that he no longer intended to manufacture the “Tom Brown Tracker Knife” and forfeited any and all rights to any future manufacturing of this knife.

Signed,

Tom Brown Jr.

Tom Brown’s Tracking, Nature, & Wilderness Survival School
P0 Box 173
Ashbury, NJ 08802
(909) 479-4681