Will, thank you.
Nice Terriers are hard to come by and I tend to pass on the badly used ones. I know what I like and I generally hold out for the better knives.
Terriers were only made between 1910 and 1916 and most of the ones I've seen were high quality knives, not all, but most.
I'm starting to divest myself of this Robeson collection, but I fully intend to keep my Terriers and pursue them as a subset of The Robeson Cutlery Company.
I'll never amass a great or large collection of Terriers, but I'd like to put together an interesting display to take around to knife shows. It would certainly be more easily transported and set up than what I have been displaying.
I don't think anyone knows why Robeson started the Terrier line or how they came up with the name, but I believe Irving S. Robeson, who took over the running of the cutlery arm of the family business after Millard F. died in 1903, was an avid sportsman. He was an accomplished golfer and won amateur tournaments all up and down the East Coast, an accomplished horseman, riding dressage in meets and I suspect he also raised or at least had an affection for pit bulls, as that is what appears to be stamped on the backs of the tangs.
... but a pic-album would be more useful...