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Looks OK to me Codger. It doesn't win an Oscar, but I like the arrangement. Talk about the one at the far right. Looks like a pinto horse pattern, real pretty. Apppreciate the effort.
 
Here are a couple of pics of my only 897UH that has a serial number
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thawk said:
Looks OK to me Codger. It doesn't win an Oscar, but I like the arrangement. Talk about the one at the far right. Looks like a pinto horse pattern, real pretty. Apppreciate the effort.
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That one is a genuine Burnt Stag reject. The other side is nicer, but they mismatch so far that it wasn't even considered good enough for reworking.

What is the number on that one pwrstrk1? Is it a Schrade Walden or Schrade?
 
Codger,
That's a fine scan! I like the layout, and the different handle shades.
Eric
 
Sorry about nearly plagiarising your post thawk, i didn't notice there was a page two until my reply posted. I guess we think alike.
Eric
 
my old(and now retired EDC) was a 897UH with the serial number of SO8297

tang stamp is 'Schrade' over N.Y. U.S.A. over STAINLESS over 897UH

I carried this for over 25 years and would still be doing so were it not for the fact that due to sharpening, the main blade rests such that the nail nick is almost below the liner, making it most difficult to open
 
Thanks Del! So they did continue the serializing well past the 1975 notation I found. I really have not surveyed the NIB 897UH to see when they changed the stamps leaving off stainless. I suppose it might have been when they started using the "+".

I'm not aware that having the serial number or not affects the value one way or the other. In fact, few people even recognized that some had it before I pointed it out, though it may well have also been posted some time in the past. It micht be an indicator that a knife was produced before ___ date, if we knew that date. Otherwise, it is just an interesting factoid at this juncture, like the date hallmarks on the butts of the Benchmade '49ers.

Michael
 
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