Mitch, you'll get the hang of it. I've been doing a lot of trial and error here myself.
TA-NA-SI is the Cherokee word meaning Tennessee, or in their terms, the area itself without the boundaries we have now . The Cherokee Nation was pretty big.
The TA-NA-SI series of Cripple Creeks contains a number of knife patterns. Exactly how many I don't know at this time. Hopefully we can update the info. I'll post photos of some that I do have soon.
Here's an ad promoting 4 patterns.
Notice that Cargill called what some recognize as a Banana pattern a HOBO. Hobo being short for Hoe Boy or a fella that would move from farm to farm by
rail hoping to work the fields. A knife like this would be pretty handy for all types of things.
You might notice that I removed the phone number that was in all the ads I post. Calling that 30 year old number would only bother someone that doesn't know anything
about knives and would not reach Cargill. There is always at least one "knuckle head" that would just have to see if it would. I can guarantee you that it won't.
We will update this post as new photos and information comes forth.
More later.
Greg
With the addition of the photos below combined with the info in the ad we know that there are at least 6 different knives in the TA-NA-SI series
and there are 150 of each. To date we are still missing #3 a 2 blade honeybone mini trapper. A total of 6 knives.
The Christmas Tree scales that Cargill used are tuff as nails and I have never seen one break down or gas.
I've never seen or heard of it doing so on a Cripple Creek.
Knife below reads TA-NA-SI #6 1 of 150
Cherokee Princess
Nancy Ward.
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TA-NA-SI #4 Stag Boot Knife from the Loy Collection. Mr. Loy had a very fine Cripple Creek Collection.