Elusive Schrades

Late '50s Schrade Walden 896K "slenderino" stockman in butter & molasses celluloid

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Marvelous all around, Jeff !!
 
Thanks, Gev, I'm a sucker for butter & molasses all day long . . . .

on pancakes or knife handles! ;):D
 
This is one stellar knife. To put it into a soft velvet slip and take it around town once in awhile is an excellent idea. Use beyond that is exactly why your knife is still special and all the others are no longer. Just sayin...
Well it took me about a week but I went through all the 87 pages. Pretty much lost track of everything else going on but it was such a treat to see all the wonderful knives and gain all the valuable information that was shared. My finger kept reaching for the like button but I would have overwhelmed Charlie and all the other contributors showing their rare and beautiful knives. Schrade's peachseed jigging is my absolute favorite and I could just keep looking and looking. Such a shame that we lost so many pictures to photobucket. Thanks to our good friend paulhilborn paulhilborn , he was kind enough to give me the opportunity to own this beauty. I have added a little patina to it. Sorry guys but I couldn't resist. I really enjoy pocketing and using these old works of art.View attachment 1017162 View attachment 1017163
I feel that we have a responsibility to respect and conserve the last of the irreplaceable pre-war tresures that can never be replaced. To consider them to be an EDC on even a cursory level is a grievous error. Just my heart-felt opinion.
 
Thanks, Lyle and Cal, for the nice words. It's interesting to me that the sheepfoot blade is the only one with patina on it. The other two have some speckling on their spines from dampness in the air when closed, but they don't appear to have ever been used.
 
Picked this one up the other day... the Schrade Open Stock List has it being manufactured from 1952 to 1965 but it is listed as being in "black celluloid". This one I found is in "red bone" and is in really nice shape for being 50+ years old.

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Very nice Kevin, I had the bone version like yours and gifted to a past member "Doug Add" and I still have the black celluloid version you listed as well:thumbsup:
 
This is one stellar knife. To put it into a soft velvet slip and take it around town once in awhile is an excellent idea. Use beyond that is exactly why your knife is still special and all the others are no longer. Just sayin...

I feel that we have a responsibility to respect and conserve the last of the irreplaceable pre-war tresures that can never be replaced. To consider them to be an EDC on even a cursory level is a grievous error. Just my heart-felt opinion.
I respect your opinion but I on the other hand like to carry and use a couple of my old pre WW-I knives fairly regularly and post them on the What Are You Toten Today thread and let everybody see them . They very easily could be put away with my other 3 drawers of knives and never be seen by anyone but me .

Harry
 
I'd like to get your opinion on this one. I picked it up a show recently. I have no reason to believe it is a fake or a cobble, although strangely the cover pins are NS/steel on the mark side, and brass on the pile side. The only thing I don't like on it is the spring pivot pin, not as clean as the others. Everything else about it looks factory finish...springs, crisp sharp tangs/halfstops. I might think lunchbox knife, but possibly salesmans sample?

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I'd like to get your opinion on this one. I picked it up a show recently. I have no reason to believe it is a fake or a cobble, although strangely the cover pins are NS/steel on the mark side, and brass on the pile side. The only thing I don't like on it is the spring pivot pin, not as clean as the others. Everything else about it looks factory finish...springs, crisp sharp tangs/halfstops. I might think lunchbox knife, but possibly salesmans sample?

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That's an interesting one Glenn... you would think they would've at least used the brass pins on the mark side to match the spring pin! ;) I guess that could be an early 40's knife, a time when brass was a precious metal and they ran out of pins o_O Nothing else looks unusual about that knife to me, great find! :D
 
I like that little switch a lot. It is my understanding that this sort of knife was often a collaboration with a specialty jewelry company and the cutlery.
 
That's an interesting one Glenn... you would think they would've at least used the brass pins on the mark side to match the spring pin! ;) I guess that could be an early 40's knife, a time when brass was a precious metal and they ran out of pins o_O Nothing else looks unusual about that knife to me, great find! :D
Maybe the used the silver on the mark side to match the shield? These mysteries make this hobby fun imo:thumbsup:
 
I saw a big stockman with "Chicago Cutlery" stamped on its wooden handle. I think it's a Schrade because there's about 1/8" extra space at one end and no sign of the pivot-pin's ends. So it has the Swindon key, so you'd have to chop, drill, and re-pin it to get rid of the play. Yet it's marked $15 firm, too much for a project knife that's going to end up looking like a project of mine. Yet it has nice, full blades.
 
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