canoe pattern

[a2d2]

i love the canoe pattern, and recently realized that i know next to nothing about it's history. can anyone fill me in? is it considered a pen knife, or maybe a jack? thanks in advance.

 

[Blues]

According to Bernard Levine, the "canoe" is an offshoot of the "cattle" (equal end) pattern.

 

[knifeaholic]

From what I have seen, historically very few companies produced the canoe pattern. The early Case related companies (WR Case, Case Brothers, and Union Cut/Kabar) seemed to be the most prolific producers of the canoe pattern, though most if not all of ther earliest ones were the larger "gunboat" style in the 4" closed range.

Utica/Boker/Valley Forge made a very few...I believe that Levine shows an older Boker canoe made in the jack style with two blades at one end.

The pattern that we know of today as the Canoe is generally the Case 62131. For the period of the 1920's through the mid 1970's, I do not know of any other US cutlery company that produced a similar pattern. Case seemed to be the only one until about 1974 when Queen basically copied the Case 62131 with the canoe etching on the blade. From the 60's on some Solingen firms made canoe and baby canoe patterns.

Beginning in the 1980's some other knife companies began producing the canoe pattern in response to collector demand.

 

[a2d2]

thanks for the info. wasn't finding too much on canoes using google. any suggested reading regarding the pattern?

 

[Buck_Fan]

I wish there was more info as well, as it is my favorite pattern. All my searches come up with these long things that come with paddles you are sapposed to sit in on a crik or lake and paddle your way around. I look at my knife and say, there is no way.

Bill

 

[RetiredGuns]

Here are my 2 canoe pocket knives. The case was bought around 1979 and the Schrade maybe 1983. The Schrade is serialized and stamped Schrade Westenholm & Sheffield England. Crappy pics - sorry.