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152OT Sharpfinger and 152UH Uncle Henry Wolverine Research
The Schrade Old Timer 152OT Sharpfinger is a favorite classic Schrade pattern Old Timer fixed blade. The 152OT was the sixth fixed blade Old Timer when it was first introduced in 1974 and was produced continuously for thirty years, almost a third of a century. It was first manufactured after the Schrade-Walden name had been changed to Schrade Cutlery (in mid 1973), so an example with the Schrade-Walden tangstamp would be a truely rare collectable. It did appear in the mid 1973 Schrade Cutlery shortline catalog, even though most research sources state 1974 for the first producton. In the 1973 catalog, it was refered to as a "Sharp Finger", later changed to a single word, "Sharpfinger" in 1980, when it listed for $17.95. It listed for $37.95 in the 2004 catalog, the last issued before the mid year bankruptcy forced the company's closing and liquidation (but could still be found at $21.95 from the mass marketers).
The Sharpfinger has downward curve shaped brown sawcut delrin handles, refered to by the Schrade trade name of "Genuine Saw Cut Delrin", advertised and guaranteed as unbreakable. In cross section, they are generally rectangular with radiused edges, and the width tapers from a narrow 1/2" at the choil to almost 7/8" wide at the butt. This shape aids the user in maintaining blade orientation, while not being uncomfortable to hold as would the same shape without the rounded corners. The curvature, arched along the spine of the tang is very "ergonomic", though that was not a term in vogue in the early 1970's. It fits the user's palm well. The handle halves are held to the full exposed tang blade by two flush nickle silver flat head compression rivets, and a 3/4" nickle silver Old Timer shield is set flush on the right handle ( rectangular with radiused ends and single stroke letters "OLD TIMER"). On occasion over the span of production, antler jigged Staglon, and black, orange, and cream delrin handles have been used on special and private issues. Jigged bone and Sambar stag, laminated wood, oak, and walnut will ocasionally be seen as well. The handle has an unlined thong, or "lanyard" hole near the rear and earlier production knives were provided with a leather thong for the user to install. Sometime during production, the wrist thong fell out of vogue with users and it was deleted from the package, but the unlined thong hole remained.
A prominent choil on the ricasso in front of the handle acts as a lower guard and protects the fingers from the sharpened blade. while it is not as enlarged as the extended choil of the 15OT predecessor, it is smoothly radiused on the handle side to form a rest for the user's index finger in normal use grip, or the thumb with the knife rotated 90 degrees for skinning strokes. A raised thumb rest on the top of the tang aids in blade control for finer work. Unlike the grooved feature of the 15OT, the thumb rest of the Sharpfinger is smooth. These two features, as well as the blade sweep, are modifications of the Sharpfinger's much larger ancestor, the 15OT "Deerslayer" introduced in 1964. The 3 1/2" full tang upswept blade is flat ground 1095 carbon steel in it's original design. A stiff blade, the bladestock is approximately 5/32" thick. Often described as a modified skinner, the blade has a pronounced skinner belly with an upswept tip, and just a hint of a false edge on the upper spine. Overall length was listed as 7 1/4" and weight 4.1 oz.
I have found three basic sheath designs so far. One was used beginning beginning with the introduction where the keeper strap originated through a diecut 5/8" diagonal slot in the left side of the sheath just above the throat and wrapped over the choil to the male portion of the snap mounted on the center of the sheath face. The fixed strap end was riveted through the sheath back and belt hanger. The blade tended to cut the strap when inserted or withdrawn by the user. This may be the least common sheath, though by no means rare. The throat opening at the front panel top on this model was cut straight across. This sheath used a 5/8" snap.
The sheath was later redesigned (sometime in the late seventies, early eighties) with the keeper strap moved up to the handle. This pattern is most common. The strap was fed through two parallel vertical slots diecut into the belt hanger above the sheath throat, and riveted through the belt hanger. A second rivet inside secured the belt hanger front to back. Sheaths of this type may be seen with the top closure snap portion either left or right. Perhaps this is an unintentional artifact of the right or lefthandedness of the sheath assembler. With the later sheaths, lefthandedness became much more consistant, as was the case with most of the manufacturing details at Schrade with the use of more automation and compliance to QS and ISO standards. The throat opening at the front panel top on this model was cut with a half moon shape notch to provide clearance for the handle scale. Earliest of these sheaths had keeper strap slots 3/4" long and used a small (3/8") snap. Later ones had slots1" long and used a larger (1/2") snap. As an interesting note, this keeper strap design was continued for the 154OT ('76-'88) and 158OT ('88-04) patterns.
The third type of sheath is a semi-tubular "pouch" sheath without a keeper strap. These are sometimes found with scrimshaw editions of the mid 1980's. So far, I have only seen them in chocolate brown. Composed of one piece of leather folded over, sewn with brown or black thread, and with a finishing rivet on each end of the stitching, the sheaths securely hold the knives by depth and friction alone. The back panel was again folded over to provide the belt loop, and secured by stitching alone. This design was later adapted for use with the 156OT Little Finger knife, and even later for the PH1 and PH2 knives and others. These sheaths are uncommon.
The first two sheaths had a formed front panel stitched with brown or black thread (early ones ocasionally in white or tan thread) to a flat back panel, with two small rivets finishing the stitching at the throat. The back panel extended upward above the front piece and folded foreward to form the integral belt hanger loop. On all varients I have seen, the belt hanger was attached with three rivets includint the two finishing the stitching and one slightly lower in the sheath center. Because of the small size of the 152OT sheath, none were made with the stone pocket found on other Schrade fixed blade patterns. There were tooled border lines on the integrel belt hanger on the earlier sheath design. Sometime in the 1980's, Schrade deleted this simple decorative detail.
Sheath finish color varied over the years from light tan, light russet, dark russet, to true brown. Occasionally an undyed replacement sheath shows up on the market. A few special and private issue sheaths are dyed black, usually with white stitching, and a few have appeared with exotic finish textures.
As with many other Old Timers, there are some small, relatively minor engineering changes on the 152OT over the years, but most are neglegable, and not evident without using accurate measuring devices. One such change is in the bladestock thickness. There is not a consistant pattern of thick or thin stock that I have been able to pin down, but rather a general inconsistancy over the life of the pattern production.
EDIT SPECIAL NOTE 1-26-06: It has been brought to my attention (by a former Schrade employee) that the blade grind was changed from a flat grind to a hollow grind in the last years. Examining examples of early and late knives, this is evident by the arced grind line at the ricasso end of the blade.
No distinctly different tangstamps have been noted so far on standard production knives, other than those a byproduct of worn stamping dies, or in the case of limited editions, special private issues, and the relics appearing from the Schrade sample room.
Earliest production was marked with the lefthand tangstamp "SCHRADE" over "U.S.A. 152" perpendicular to the blade and read from the handle. This tangstamp remained unchanged throughout the years of production. While the 15OT and many other Old Timer patterns utilized the "OT" suffix on their tangstamps, the 152OT followed the precedent of the 165OT and left the "OT" identifier off the tangstamp. The earlier Walden 15OT's and 165OT's were serialialized on the left tang perpendicular to the blade, but I have never seen a production Sharpfinger serialized, excepting a few limited editions.
The success of the 152OT inspired Schrade to issue a stainless Uncle Henry Signature version of the knife in 1982, the 152UH "Wolverine", sporting a Staglon handle (Delrin molded and accent colored to immitate stag antler) with the Uncle Henry signature shield as found on the Signature Series pocketknives, and two flat rivets, all in nickle silver. This was a handle design first used on the 165UH during the short two year first production run in 1969-'70 and repeated on a second later production in 1994-'97. The 152UH was supplied with the standard sheath. It's tangstamp is "SCHRADE+" over "U.S.A. 152UH" on the 440A stainless blade as one might expect. These are most often found in the gray/black "A Sharp Idea" box.
In circa 1989-91, Schrade made some Sharpfingers, complete with custom boxes, using stainless blades and tangstamped "SCHRADE+" over "U.S.A. 512OT". Other than the steel and the tangstamp, they were identical to the base 152OT. It is my personal theory that these knives were intended as a test marketing of the stainless bladed Old Timer to see if the public would buy it. These are relatively rare. The one I have was purchased in 1989 in the base tan box with standard 152OT Sharpfinger markings. I have since obtained an original unused box intended for the 512OT Sharpfinger, black with blue and gold printing. Perhaps these knives never made it past the sample phase, but sometime in the late 1990's, Schrade did begin making a running change to stainless 440A blade steel on the Sharpfinger, though the tangstamps and packaging was not changed to inform buyers. I have also one of these stainless 152OT's, one of the last stocked by a local Wal-Mart. Interestingly, the Sharpfinger was listed in the catalogs as "high carbon steel" until the 2004 catalog when the description was dropped from the listing. The 440A was .60-.75 carbon, whereas the AISI 1095 steel was .9-1.03.
Limited editions and a lot of private issue Schrade Cutlery knives had a right side tangstamp of "SCHRADE+" over "USA LTD.", and used a 440 stainless blade. These editions sometimes sometimes sported the upgrade Uncle Henry Staglon Delrin handle, brass flat rivets, special etches, and on the later issues, laser cutouts in the blade just in front of the tang. One late Ducks Unlimited edition has a brass DU oval coined shield and brass rivets, and DU laser cutout on the blade ahead of the ricasso. The last production SDU152 in the 2004 catalog had a light oak handle. One knife, with genuine stag handles and no shield or etch, has a tangstamp "SCHRADE+" over "U.S.A." The seller called it a 152S, but with no box or stamp and a "found in the factory" provenance, I cannot confirm that this is Schrade nomenclature.
The 2002 catalog lists a DS15 Federal Duck Stamp 15th Anniversary Edition Sharpfinger. It is shown in a custom walnut presentation box and included a money clip, had green pickbone handles, a flying duck laser cutout in the satin finished stainless blade. With a listed retail of $150, I doubt too many were sold. I have a factory unfinished blank of this model and the tangstamp is "SCHRADE+" over "U.S.A. LTD.". The 2003 catalog lists a DS16 Federal Duck Stamp 16th Anniversary Edition Sharpfinger. It is shown in a custom walnut gift box and included a money clip, had bone handles, a flying duck laser cutout in the blade.
A private issue 152 was made for Cotter and Company, better known as True Value Hardware. True Value marketed products under the trade name of Master Mechanic. The tang reads "MM152" over "U.S.A.", and the shield imprint is "Master Mechanic". Date of manufacture was some time in the late eighties to mid nineties. I understand that they marketed several Schrade knives under the Master Mechanic label, and possibly under Master Electrician" as well.
One of the early special editions was the 1988 catalog offering of the 152OT in a gift set, SGS-1. It included a sheath and a 34OT "Middleman" stockman knife. This set must have been a good seller, as it was listed in every year's catalog through 2000.
Beginning in about 1979, Schrade produced the 152 pattern knives with cream delrin handles and die imprinted with inked scrimshaw art, done first by Frank Georgiani, their in-house artist. Every year for quite a few years, one or more designs were released. Most years the 152 scrimshaws were available in a set of seven or more different pattern knives, though many were sold individually. Listing the various different scrims would be a daunting task, and one I will not attempt here. These limited edition knives were usually given unique tangstamps with either a prefix or suffix of "SC". Some I have noted are: 155SC, 205SC, and 502SC with the latter being most used. After the factory inventory liquidation, a large number of blank cream delrin "scrims" appeared on the market, mostly with the 502SC tangstamp. I believe that Schrade held a good many in reserve, completed except for the addition of the scrimshaw imprint and inking, for upcoming special orders and comemoratives. The plain cream delrin is attractive in it's unadorned state. A few cream delrin 152 tangstamped sharpfingers have also appeared with the "OLD TIMER" shield, indicating they were not intended for the Scrimshaw edition.
Another special issue is the 152OTO knife with hunter orange delrin handle and "OLD TIMER" shield. It may have been comissioned by Smokey Mountain Knife Works circa 1991 for inclusion in their "father and son" hunting sets with the 165OTO "DEERHUNTER", 15OTO "LIMITED EDITION", and 158OTO with an "OLD TIMER" shield. Quite a number of these appeared for sale after the Schrade closing, so they are unique, but not really rare. I believe these used the 1095HC carbon steel blades and had the standard "Schrade USA 152" tangstamp.
The 154OT, a close pattern cousin of the 152OT was used in private editions for Copenhagen and Skoal brand tobacco products promotions. Skoal used green delrin with a brass oval coined "Schrade" shield and a tangstamp of "Schrade" over "Skoal U.S.A." Copenhagen used black delrin and a tangstamp of "Schrade" over "Cope U.S.A." Some had a "Limited Edition" blade etch. I have been watching for a 152 in either of these private edition lines.
The Schrade Old Timer 152OT Sharpfinger is a favorite classic Schrade pattern Old Timer fixed blade. The 152OT was the sixth fixed blade Old Timer when it was first introduced in 1974 and was produced continuously for thirty years, almost a third of a century. It was first manufactured after the Schrade-Walden name had been changed to Schrade Cutlery (in mid 1973), so an example with the Schrade-Walden tangstamp would be a truely rare collectable. It did appear in the mid 1973 Schrade Cutlery shortline catalog, even though most research sources state 1974 for the first producton. In the 1973 catalog, it was refered to as a "Sharp Finger", later changed to a single word, "Sharpfinger" in 1980, when it listed for $17.95. It listed for $37.95 in the 2004 catalog, the last issued before the mid year bankruptcy forced the company's closing and liquidation (but could still be found at $21.95 from the mass marketers).
The Sharpfinger has downward curve shaped brown sawcut delrin handles, refered to by the Schrade trade name of "Genuine Saw Cut Delrin", advertised and guaranteed as unbreakable. In cross section, they are generally rectangular with radiused edges, and the width tapers from a narrow 1/2" at the choil to almost 7/8" wide at the butt. This shape aids the user in maintaining blade orientation, while not being uncomfortable to hold as would the same shape without the rounded corners. The curvature, arched along the spine of the tang is very "ergonomic", though that was not a term in vogue in the early 1970's. It fits the user's palm well. The handle halves are held to the full exposed tang blade by two flush nickle silver flat head compression rivets, and a 3/4" nickle silver Old Timer shield is set flush on the right handle ( rectangular with radiused ends and single stroke letters "OLD TIMER"). On occasion over the span of production, antler jigged Staglon, and black, orange, and cream delrin handles have been used on special and private issues. Jigged bone and Sambar stag, laminated wood, oak, and walnut will ocasionally be seen as well. The handle has an unlined thong, or "lanyard" hole near the rear and earlier production knives were provided with a leather thong for the user to install. Sometime during production, the wrist thong fell out of vogue with users and it was deleted from the package, but the unlined thong hole remained.
A prominent choil on the ricasso in front of the handle acts as a lower guard and protects the fingers from the sharpened blade. while it is not as enlarged as the extended choil of the 15OT predecessor, it is smoothly radiused on the handle side to form a rest for the user's index finger in normal use grip, or the thumb with the knife rotated 90 degrees for skinning strokes. A raised thumb rest on the top of the tang aids in blade control for finer work. Unlike the grooved feature of the 15OT, the thumb rest of the Sharpfinger is smooth. These two features, as well as the blade sweep, are modifications of the Sharpfinger's much larger ancestor, the 15OT "Deerslayer" introduced in 1964. The 3 1/2" full tang upswept blade is flat ground 1095 carbon steel in it's original design. A stiff blade, the bladestock is approximately 5/32" thick. Often described as a modified skinner, the blade has a pronounced skinner belly with an upswept tip, and just a hint of a false edge on the upper spine. Overall length was listed as 7 1/4" and weight 4.1 oz.
I have found three basic sheath designs so far. One was used beginning beginning with the introduction where the keeper strap originated through a diecut 5/8" diagonal slot in the left side of the sheath just above the throat and wrapped over the choil to the male portion of the snap mounted on the center of the sheath face. The fixed strap end was riveted through the sheath back and belt hanger. The blade tended to cut the strap when inserted or withdrawn by the user. This may be the least common sheath, though by no means rare. The throat opening at the front panel top on this model was cut straight across. This sheath used a 5/8" snap.
The sheath was later redesigned (sometime in the late seventies, early eighties) with the keeper strap moved up to the handle. This pattern is most common. The strap was fed through two parallel vertical slots diecut into the belt hanger above the sheath throat, and riveted through the belt hanger. A second rivet inside secured the belt hanger front to back. Sheaths of this type may be seen with the top closure snap portion either left or right. Perhaps this is an unintentional artifact of the right or lefthandedness of the sheath assembler. With the later sheaths, lefthandedness became much more consistant, as was the case with most of the manufacturing details at Schrade with the use of more automation and compliance to QS and ISO standards. The throat opening at the front panel top on this model was cut with a half moon shape notch to provide clearance for the handle scale. Earliest of these sheaths had keeper strap slots 3/4" long and used a small (3/8") snap. Later ones had slots1" long and used a larger (1/2") snap. As an interesting note, this keeper strap design was continued for the 154OT ('76-'88) and 158OT ('88-04) patterns.
The third type of sheath is a semi-tubular "pouch" sheath without a keeper strap. These are sometimes found with scrimshaw editions of the mid 1980's. So far, I have only seen them in chocolate brown. Composed of one piece of leather folded over, sewn with brown or black thread, and with a finishing rivet on each end of the stitching, the sheaths securely hold the knives by depth and friction alone. The back panel was again folded over to provide the belt loop, and secured by stitching alone. This design was later adapted for use with the 156OT Little Finger knife, and even later for the PH1 and PH2 knives and others. These sheaths are uncommon.
The first two sheaths had a formed front panel stitched with brown or black thread (early ones ocasionally in white or tan thread) to a flat back panel, with two small rivets finishing the stitching at the throat. The back panel extended upward above the front piece and folded foreward to form the integral belt hanger loop. On all varients I have seen, the belt hanger was attached with three rivets includint the two finishing the stitching and one slightly lower in the sheath center. Because of the small size of the 152OT sheath, none were made with the stone pocket found on other Schrade fixed blade patterns. There were tooled border lines on the integrel belt hanger on the earlier sheath design. Sometime in the 1980's, Schrade deleted this simple decorative detail.
Sheath finish color varied over the years from light tan, light russet, dark russet, to true brown. Occasionally an undyed replacement sheath shows up on the market. A few special and private issue sheaths are dyed black, usually with white stitching, and a few have appeared with exotic finish textures.
As with many other Old Timers, there are some small, relatively minor engineering changes on the 152OT over the years, but most are neglegable, and not evident without using accurate measuring devices. One such change is in the bladestock thickness. There is not a consistant pattern of thick or thin stock that I have been able to pin down, but rather a general inconsistancy over the life of the pattern production.
EDIT SPECIAL NOTE 1-26-06: It has been brought to my attention (by a former Schrade employee) that the blade grind was changed from a flat grind to a hollow grind in the last years. Examining examples of early and late knives, this is evident by the arced grind line at the ricasso end of the blade.
No distinctly different tangstamps have been noted so far on standard production knives, other than those a byproduct of worn stamping dies, or in the case of limited editions, special private issues, and the relics appearing from the Schrade sample room.
Earliest production was marked with the lefthand tangstamp "SCHRADE" over "U.S.A. 152" perpendicular to the blade and read from the handle. This tangstamp remained unchanged throughout the years of production. While the 15OT and many other Old Timer patterns utilized the "OT" suffix on their tangstamps, the 152OT followed the precedent of the 165OT and left the "OT" identifier off the tangstamp. The earlier Walden 15OT's and 165OT's were serialialized on the left tang perpendicular to the blade, but I have never seen a production Sharpfinger serialized, excepting a few limited editions.
The success of the 152OT inspired Schrade to issue a stainless Uncle Henry Signature version of the knife in 1982, the 152UH "Wolverine", sporting a Staglon handle (Delrin molded and accent colored to immitate stag antler) with the Uncle Henry signature shield as found on the Signature Series pocketknives, and two flat rivets, all in nickle silver. This was a handle design first used on the 165UH during the short two year first production run in 1969-'70 and repeated on a second later production in 1994-'97. The 152UH was supplied with the standard sheath. It's tangstamp is "SCHRADE+" over "U.S.A. 152UH" on the 440A stainless blade as one might expect. These are most often found in the gray/black "A Sharp Idea" box.
In circa 1989-91, Schrade made some Sharpfingers, complete with custom boxes, using stainless blades and tangstamped "SCHRADE+" over "U.S.A. 512OT". Other than the steel and the tangstamp, they were identical to the base 152OT. It is my personal theory that these knives were intended as a test marketing of the stainless bladed Old Timer to see if the public would buy it. These are relatively rare. The one I have was purchased in 1989 in the base tan box with standard 152OT Sharpfinger markings. I have since obtained an original unused box intended for the 512OT Sharpfinger, black with blue and gold printing. Perhaps these knives never made it past the sample phase, but sometime in the late 1990's, Schrade did begin making a running change to stainless 440A blade steel on the Sharpfinger, though the tangstamps and packaging was not changed to inform buyers. I have also one of these stainless 152OT's, one of the last stocked by a local Wal-Mart. Interestingly, the Sharpfinger was listed in the catalogs as "high carbon steel" until the 2004 catalog when the description was dropped from the listing. The 440A was .60-.75 carbon, whereas the AISI 1095 steel was .9-1.03.
Limited editions and a lot of private issue Schrade Cutlery knives had a right side tangstamp of "SCHRADE+" over "USA LTD.", and used a 440 stainless blade. These editions sometimes sometimes sported the upgrade Uncle Henry Staglon Delrin handle, brass flat rivets, special etches, and on the later issues, laser cutouts in the blade just in front of the tang. One late Ducks Unlimited edition has a brass DU oval coined shield and brass rivets, and DU laser cutout on the blade ahead of the ricasso. The last production SDU152 in the 2004 catalog had a light oak handle. One knife, with genuine stag handles and no shield or etch, has a tangstamp "SCHRADE+" over "U.S.A." The seller called it a 152S, but with no box or stamp and a "found in the factory" provenance, I cannot confirm that this is Schrade nomenclature.
The 2002 catalog lists a DS15 Federal Duck Stamp 15th Anniversary Edition Sharpfinger. It is shown in a custom walnut presentation box and included a money clip, had green pickbone handles, a flying duck laser cutout in the satin finished stainless blade. With a listed retail of $150, I doubt too many were sold. I have a factory unfinished blank of this model and the tangstamp is "SCHRADE+" over "U.S.A. LTD.". The 2003 catalog lists a DS16 Federal Duck Stamp 16th Anniversary Edition Sharpfinger. It is shown in a custom walnut gift box and included a money clip, had bone handles, a flying duck laser cutout in the blade.
A private issue 152 was made for Cotter and Company, better known as True Value Hardware. True Value marketed products under the trade name of Master Mechanic. The tang reads "MM152" over "U.S.A.", and the shield imprint is "Master Mechanic". Date of manufacture was some time in the late eighties to mid nineties. I understand that they marketed several Schrade knives under the Master Mechanic label, and possibly under Master Electrician" as well.
One of the early special editions was the 1988 catalog offering of the 152OT in a gift set, SGS-1. It included a sheath and a 34OT "Middleman" stockman knife. This set must have been a good seller, as it was listed in every year's catalog through 2000.
Beginning in about 1979, Schrade produced the 152 pattern knives with cream delrin handles and die imprinted with inked scrimshaw art, done first by Frank Georgiani, their in-house artist. Every year for quite a few years, one or more designs were released. Most years the 152 scrimshaws were available in a set of seven or more different pattern knives, though many were sold individually. Listing the various different scrims would be a daunting task, and one I will not attempt here. These limited edition knives were usually given unique tangstamps with either a prefix or suffix of "SC". Some I have noted are: 155SC, 205SC, and 502SC with the latter being most used. After the factory inventory liquidation, a large number of blank cream delrin "scrims" appeared on the market, mostly with the 502SC tangstamp. I believe that Schrade held a good many in reserve, completed except for the addition of the scrimshaw imprint and inking, for upcoming special orders and comemoratives. The plain cream delrin is attractive in it's unadorned state. A few cream delrin 152 tangstamped sharpfingers have also appeared with the "OLD TIMER" shield, indicating they were not intended for the Scrimshaw edition.
Another special issue is the 152OTO knife with hunter orange delrin handle and "OLD TIMER" shield. It may have been comissioned by Smokey Mountain Knife Works circa 1991 for inclusion in their "father and son" hunting sets with the 165OTO "DEERHUNTER", 15OTO "LIMITED EDITION", and 158OTO with an "OLD TIMER" shield. Quite a number of these appeared for sale after the Schrade closing, so they are unique, but not really rare. I believe these used the 1095HC carbon steel blades and had the standard "Schrade USA 152" tangstamp.
The 154OT, a close pattern cousin of the 152OT was used in private editions for Copenhagen and Skoal brand tobacco products promotions. Skoal used green delrin with a brass oval coined "Schrade" shield and a tangstamp of "Schrade" over "Skoal U.S.A." Copenhagen used black delrin and a tangstamp of "Schrade" over "Cope U.S.A." Some had a "Limited Edition" blade etch. I have been watching for a 152 in either of these private edition lines.
