Eureka !! I found one...

Kerry mentioned the blades having differences, thats something I noticed too. The pen blade looks like it was from a different style knife because it is all the way over against, or very close, to the liner.

Either way, its still a neat lookin knife
 
Bummer...like I totally blew it and posted that AS Congress Jack in the wrong thread thinking I was in Old Knives. Somewhat of a hijack of Jeremy's thread. So sorry...nevermind...kerry on...smokem if ya got em :o

Im going to post that again in old knives because Vince said so. :p
 
A thread isn't a thread till it drifts, like a conversation you know.


Mike Robuck said:
Thread drift; Kerry's fault!
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Isn't it always Kerry's fault :D


OK, no hole in the liner where a shield pin would have been, so is there an inlet in the bone for another shield? I guess we'll find out if and when the shield pops off.

So the general consensus is that its been monkeyed with? Good, that way I won't feel so bad about putting it in my pocket, cause it's still a Eureka Jack and cheaper than a new factory knife... Thats what I'm talkin' bout ;)
 
Cheaper than a factory knife:eek:

You've done well there alright:thumbup: Fine knife to use and look at.

Oh, and you are absolutely right about thread drift, just like conversation evolving.
 
Although it is a fine looking knife, it has all the earmarks of a PARKER REPRO. The modern typeface stamping, the non NYK bone and the lack of proper swedgeing. Parker used some very desirable patterns and stamped different antique cutlery firms names on these patterns. Including NYK and Challenge to name a few. If you ask Bernard Levine, I believe he would agree.
 
1fartsmella said:
Although it is a fine looking knife, it has all the earmarks of a PARKER REPRO. The modern typeface stamping, the non NYK bone and the lack of proper swedgeing. Parker used some very desirable patterns and stamped different antique cutlery firms names on these patterns. Including NYK and Challenge to name a few. If you ask Bernard Levine, I believe he would agree.
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I agree,here is another,too good to be true

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I agree the bone does not look like most NYK bone.

I have never seen a NYK jack with the pen blade in back - NYK and most (but not all) of the other older knife companies put the pen blade in front. Case, Schatt & Morgan, Queen, Union/Ka Bar and (sometimes) Winchester used to put the pen blades in back on most (but not all) of their two blade jacks. Most other knife companies put the pen blade in front.

NYK did tend to use the extension spring on the small blades on many of their jack patterns.

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I believe that there was a Euraka jack released in the "black box" Winchester series by Bluegrass Cutlery (knives made by Queen). I may be incorrect about that. But if I am correct, then that may have been the source of the basic parts for this knife, if it is indeed a rework (not saying that it is).
 
Thanks for all of the input fellas and if anyone has anything else to add, by all means chime in.


The hunt continues... But is it ever really over?
 
Something else that stands out on the Eureka jack is the blade finish. It may just be the photography, but to my eye it looks like it is almost crocus polished all the way around, but not with crisp corners that would be expected with blades that were crocus polished on hard leather wheels. There is no glaze finish in sight - how common was that?
 
The Winchester "Black Box" series (1987 thru 1991) does have the pattern like Vince posted above but no Eureka Jack.
Greg
 
I like the way the shield on that knife is curved to match the curve of the knife itself.
 
Posting the knife on BRL's forum will bring some interesting comments, I am sure.
I agree it is a relatively modern construct.
 
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