Elusive Schrades

Charlie, your comments on Albert Baer are interesting and of course bang on!, the more I read about this guy, the more I learn just what massive influence he had on the very knives we love today.
Seeing the Tang stamps tells us everything you said, I cant think of another single person who singularly had so much influence on the Knife World during his lifetime.

Augie- Real nice 2OT
 
Campbellclanman said:
Charlie, your comments on Albert Baer are interesting
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I wonder what Albert was thinking, when he made this humble, single-spring, EE knife so attractive!! Thankfully, French Ivory (celluloid) appears to be so stable!!
Budding and Grafting knives of the time (Case, Ulster and others) displayed many similar 2-blades; the "spay" could be used as a Spud, with the Sheepfoot making the necessary incisions! The nicely textured Shield and lined Bolsters dress things up!!;)
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Albert probably sold a few of these over his rivals!!
 
Just a perspective follow up on Budding and Grafting folders!
Here is a grouping that sort of represents the old market. I've collected them, mostly cheap knives, for 10-15 years or so; it looks like Schrade dominated both before and after the Baers took over! At top is Camillus, followed by a pretty rare Case, then the rest are Schrade Waldens and Schade Cut Cos. All have Sheepfoot, opposite Spay blades on single springs!!B&G fldr group 1.jpg
 
waynorth said:
Just a perspective follow up on Budding and Grafting folders!
Here is a grouping that sort of represents the old market. I've collected them, mostly cheap knives, for 10-15 years or so; it looks like Schrade dominated both before and after the Baers took over! At top is Camillus, followed by a pretty rare Case, then the rest are Schrade Waldens and Schade Cut Cos. All have Sheepfoot, opposite Spay blades on single springs!!View attachment 1620691
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Awesome and rarely seen!

Do you by any chance have a picture of office knives? Wasn't the secondary blade on the older ones something like a grafting or spey blade? We were just discussing that with Jack Black over in another thread, how the American approach to the erasing blade was different from that of the Swiss, since Karl Elsener (Victorinox) put a small clip point blades with more belly to them on his officer's knives to be used for scraping ink off the paper.
 
ISKRA said:
Awesome and rarely seen!

Do you by any chance have a picture of office knives? Wasn't the secondary blade on the older ones something like a grafting or spey blade? We were just discussing that with Jack Black over in another thread, how the American approach to the erasing blade was different from that of the Swiss, since Karl Elsener (Victorinox) put a small clip point blades with more belly to them on his officer's knives to be used for scraping ink off the paper.
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All the secondaries on the Budding/Grafting folders are spey blades! The mains are Sheepfoot blades!
The few American Office knives I've had have Spear mains with, spey (ink) secondaries!!OfficeKnives1.jpg
 
I brought this out to carry around the house today and couldn’t stop thinking about how much I like the pattern, the shield and especially the French Ivory covers. I came tonight to see what others have posted and then this! ( waynorth waynorth thanks for the pictures!)

The mark Armstrong Special can barely be made out on the blade. I don’t know the history of when/how my Grandfather obtained this knife but I know for sure he did some work for the Armstrong Manufacturing company in the early 60’s. I found the Schrade tang chart on this site and, if I’m not mistaken, it says this 3-line Cut Co tang stamp wasn’t used after 1946. It’s possible their paths crossed earlier on but I also wonder if maybe the sales team at Armstrong took 15+ years to give these knives away to their clients. I’d be grateful if someone can tell me if I read the tang chart wrong.

I love the look of this knife!

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Dang! :D that Camillus up top is mighty cool!

That there is a line up of beauties Charlie Sir! I don't mind the French Ivory one bit, I think it's rather attractive actually, Especially when it comes out a bit more Creamier- at times it can be quite Light!
 
Campbellclanman said:
Dang! :D that Camillus up top is mighty cool!

That there is a line up of beauties Charlie Sir! I don't mind the French Ivory one bit, I think it's rather attractive actually, Especially when it comes out a bit more Creamier- at times it can be quite Light!
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It's nice when a knife is labelled so you know why you have it in your hand!! Ha Ha!!
I like the creamier stuff also, Duncan! The second Office knife above is a case in point!!
 
WalleyeBob said:
I brought this out to carry around the house today and couldn’t stop thinking about how much I like the pattern, the shield and especially the French Ivory covers. I came tonight to see what others have posted and then this! ( waynorth waynorth thanks for the pictures!)

The mark Armstrong Special can barely be made out on the blade. I don’t know the history of when/how my Grandfather obtained this knife but I know for sure he did some work for the Armstrong Manufacturing company in the early 60’s. I found the Schrade tang chart on this site and, if I’m not mistaken, it says this 3-line Cut Co tang stamp wasn’t used after 1946. It’s possible their paths crossed earlier on but I also wonder if maybe the sales team at Armstrong took 15+ years to give these knives away to their clients. I’d be grateful if someone can tell me if I read the tang chart wrong.

I love the look of this knife!

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I have only seen a three of those around with that Armstrong special etch. One of them is mine.
 
Nice and thin. Sure would carry easy.
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