Codger_64
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Here is a Sears SFO I acquired a while back, obviously a modified 165OT pattern. It has no Sears number, only the Craftsman U.S.A. tangstamp and Sears A.C.A. Edge blade etch. Note also that Sears used the 15OT name for this pattern!. Sears ordered this pattern for many years, sometimes with only an etch to mark them as a Sears product, usually with the custom store brand stamp later. Without seeing one NIB with all of the accompanying paperwork, age (and Sears own catalog number) is impossible to discern. For repeat orders on popular patterns such as the 8OT, Sears had different numbers for the same knives over the years. More often with the folders, the SFO Sears number was stamped, though sometimes it just appeared on the packaging.
This knife has, IMHO, some very handsome features such as the black delrin handle, and the added pommel with butt screw, all brass furniture, and danged if it isn't the first full hidden tang 165 pattern I have seen! As Sears often did, it comes with a special sheath, heavy grained with a metal sheath protector in the throat. The sheath design is otherwise the stock pattern.
Anyone seeing this particular knife in a catalog, or in it's original packaging, I would appreciate being able to put the number with it and give it an approximate date.
Just one more interesting chocolate in the box we call Schrade!
Codger
This knife has, IMHO, some very handsome features such as the black delrin handle, and the added pommel with butt screw, all brass furniture, and danged if it isn't the first full hidden tang 165 pattern I have seen! As Sears often did, it comes with a special sheath, heavy grained with a metal sheath protector in the throat. The sheath design is otherwise the stock pattern.
Anyone seeing this particular knife in a catalog, or in it's original packaging, I would appreciate being able to put the number with it and give it an approximate date.
Just one more interesting chocolate in the box we call Schrade!
Codger