#152 ?

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festerfromnzed

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Hi guys, im hoping you can help me with a query i have.A lady friend of mine in CANADA has bought me a # 152 Schrade Old Timer...Ive always liked this knife style,but down here in New Zealand we just dont see them.Anyway..the poor pictures she sent me have me a little puzzled?....the blade is marked....SCHRADE
USA 152
with a large dot below the 152?...i cant seem to find a similar mark anywhere?....is this a standard factory mark or did she get shafted??.....thanks for any info....FES
 
The marking sounds like a genuine USA Schrade, but I have no idea what the dot is. Post the picture. You can go to Tinypic.com and load it from your computer, then post the
paste.
 
Codger_64 said:
The marking sounds like a genuine USA Schrade, but I have no idea what the dot is. Post the picture. You can go to Tinypic.com and load it from your computer, then post the tag here with a copy/paste.[/QUOTE]

I have a question: If I upload to one of those 3rd party image sites, then use the image url in my post, does it only remain there as long as it remains at the 3rd party site, or does it embed the image in the post permanently? It seems whenever I seek info in old posts, many times the images posted there are no longer in the post, or linked, making most of those old posts basically useless. At that point, many of those old posts might as well be deleted.
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You can pay a membership fee and your picture will be hosted on this site. "Free" hosting has it's limitations. I first used "Hunt101" as a free host, but they purge periodically. Tinypic doesn't seem to as often. And even if the picure goes away, you have likely gotten your answer and that text remains, even if you go away.
 
I still don't have a clue what that dot is. Other than that, it is a production Sharpfinger made sometime from the late seventies thru the late eighties. Of course the pattern was made longer, but '74 thru late seventies had a full seriff font on the number one "1" and then it had a sans seriff font "l", and then hald seriff (only the top of the one, not the bottom).

Better detail if you copied the picture from the site to your computer then posted a hosted picture of that. You pictures look like a photo of a computer screen, pixilated.
 
Codger,your dead right it is a photo of the computer screen!!...was the best i could do til i get better pics sent...i have noticed that other knives are marked slightly different....1 starts at left hand edge of (A),while on others it starts in the center of the (A).....thank you for your info so far.....FES
 
As far as I have seen, the original tang stamps have not been copied on imported knives sold by Taylor, or on any other cutlery's pattern copies. There were quite a few other tangstamps used on this pattern by Schrade, but only three that I have seen on regular production knives. A few will be seen with grinds or lines struck through the tang stamp indicating a reject, usually sold in the employees' store. Again, no idea of the meaning of the dot, if it was factory applied or an artifact of manufacture (dirty die, inclusion in the steel) or if someone did that with a punch to identify the knife as theirs.
 
Codger_64 said:
You can pay a membership fee and your picture will be hosted on this site. "Free" hosting has it's limitations. I first used "Hunt101" as a free host, but they purge periodically. Tinypic doesn't seem to as often. And even if the picure goes away, you have likely gotten your answer and that text remains, even if you go away.
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Thanks
 
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