#77 Washington Street!!

[MerryMadMonk]

Wow! Outstanding stag!

 

[esnyx]

I managed to snap a few more photos before it got too dark

Un-freakin-believable! What a knife!! Excellent find, my friend. Bring that over soon so I can chicken eye and coon finger that sucker.

 

[wlfryjr]

Phil,
As Charlie told me on the phone about your knife,I could actually hear his knees get weak!

Very nice find.

 

[wlfryjr]

Most likely this knife, which is made by Empire.

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[blademan 13]

Wow! Certainly not a cheap knife in its day! But an absolute dandy nevertheless.

 

[philllll]

Thanks for that catalog page, Lyle!!! I wouldn't have guessed it's an Empire. Very cool. :thumbup::thumbup:

 

[MrBitters]

Wow! Certainly not a cheap knife in its day! But an absolute dandy nevertheless.

I'm fairly sure the price quoted in the catalog is wholesale per dozen...

$100 for 12, add the retail 20% markup and that is a $10 knife.
Still, higher end and more costly for its time.

 

[blademan 13]

I'm fairly sure the price quoted in the catalog is wholesale per dozen...

$100 for 12, add the retail 20% markup and that is a $10 knife.
Still, higher end and more costly for its time.

Absolutely. Knives could be had for a buck or two, fancy ones in the $3-$4 range. This was a serious piece of steel and most likely the reason they are so rare today. Just not that much demand in the day.

 

[paulhilborn]

Yep, per dozen as it lists weight per dozen at the tail end of the description. I dream of finding new old stock in some lost forgotten hardware store attic or basement:thumbup:

 

[philllll]

Yessir, $10 a knife back then was a pretty penny! From my cursory research, it looks like the catalog page Lyle posted is from somewhere between 1909 (when they first used the slogan "Diamond Edge is a Quality Pledge" and 1918 (when the company was renamed from Norvell-Shapleigh Hardware to just Shapleigh Hardware).

 

[philllll]

Three sizes

 

[Markesharp]

Nice knives Philllll :thumbup: I like the top Schrade very much.

 

[philllll]

Thank you Mark good to see you my friend! :thumbup: :thumbup:

 

[DWWEBBER]

The Schrade 2203 3/4 was cleaned up and re-handled by Herman Williams

 

[cbr1000]

Mark, the handle choices are Smooth Blood Red Bone, Smooth Ivory Bone, Smooth Autumn Gold Bone, Cocobola and Gabon Ebony!

Charlie, I'm bummed no Washington Jacks for 2016... do you have these on your radar to do another run?

 

[Jack Black]

For Charlie waynorth

 

[mrknife]

some one had a cool one blade clip somewhere... cant remember where

 

[willard0341]

Can’t resist the Washington street! Time for another run, 3.5 inch with the pen in front of the main

 

[waynorth]

For Charlie waynorth

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Thanks Jack!! I love it!!
In my mispent youth, I'd probably try to relocate it to my dorm room!!

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Jack!! I love it!!
In my mispent youth, I'd probably try to relocate it to my dorm room!!

I'm not sure anyone would notice if you did Charlie! It's on some old derelict streets on the other side of town, the original houses either went during WW2 or in the decade or two after. It's been an area of small factories, but now isn't even that. I've been meaning to take a pic for a while, but it's kind of in the middle of nowhere. Today, I had to go over that way, as I was hoping to pick up one of these from a tool shop...

Upon examination though, the model they had in the shop was a real piece of junk



It's been bitterly cold here today, with a blistering wind, and snow off and on. I got the pic just as it started to come down. Now, we have a good few inches of it Maybe I'll go back for the sign Charlie!