60T 100th Anniversary Schrade 1904-2004

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Hi
Just thought Id post only the pic again for those interested. Only cost me around $50 to $60 dollars off ebay about 12 months ago.

Sorry all i thought my previous post had been deleted. There was no need to post this again.

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Nice. We don't really know for certain beyond a select few patterns which Anniversary knives were actually produced, finished and shipped. Del, Bill and a few others did buy some direct from ISC in the months prior to the closing in '04, and a few patterns are shown in saved flyers from that last year. I have a couple of patterns, and also some unmounted anniversary shields which came out of the auctions. At some point in the future, it might be profitable for someone to fake these, but other than adding a cheap etch, or in the case of the big celebration the Chinese gave in '05-'06 of Schrade's '04 100th Anniversary, I don't see a huge market yet for faked Anniversary knives. Oh, do you remember the ghost auction of the diamond studded bowie? The guy just used the pictures from the original auction and saved himself the trouble of making a faked copy of the knife.

As I have mentioned in the past, one feature of the clampacks is their certainty of originality. Of course these are pretty well confined to two lower priced patterns that I am aware of, the Anniversary Lightweight and the 34OT dual shield in the tin with pin.

There were plans afoot and samples made of quite a few patterns to be included as Anniversary editions. This is an area where things get very cloudy since a lot of samples, protos, and even rejects of SFOs can (have?) been altered to appear to be of this ilk.

Michael
 
Thanks Michael,
If some of these Schrade sheilds were added in the few years after Schrades closure on only geniune USA made Schrades knives in 20 years time perhaps no one will care that it is not completely authentic. I would presume that the average buyer will only care that it is a geniune NY made Schrade and a Geniune USA made sheild, they wont care who merged the two together if it is done proffesionally.

I personally would care of course if I knew that this had occured (but how on earth would I ever find out?). Would it be fairly safe to act under the assumption that most are geniune without specific knowledge to the contrary??? As you said there is probably not much money to me made out of fake Anniversary knives yet.
 
here is Del's collection from 2005.
I cant make out the names on the card but maybe he'll pop in and let us know.
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I think Del knows what he is doing, These will be worth A LOT oneday. I be very surprised if they were not authentic being part of Dels collection. Thanks for the photo.
Regards Tim
 
I agree about Del's collection Tim.

It would be pretty apparent if a shield was not inletted and just glued on top of a knife handle. ISC had accurate tooling to inlet handles for specific shields and they were heated in, not glued. However, some of the oval anniversary shields were coined to match production SFO shield cavities, so substitution is possible and would be hard to detect.

On the 34OT anniversary patterns, both single and dual shield, a dead giveaway would be if there were no dark line next to the bolsters, or if the blades were carbon steel. This might apply to a few other OT patterns as well.

We had a thread quite some time back on these knives:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=387267&highlight=Ann

Michael
 
I believe that they are. However they appear to me to be unfinished. Note the lack of blade etch. But that is just speculation on my part.
 
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