GEC Bone List & Associated Images

black mamba

black mamba

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Dennis Strickland asked me in a PM how many different GEC bones I new of, so I did a little research, from the new book, Great Eastern Cutlery an American Tradition, by David L. Anthony and also the GEC website.

Here is the alphabetized list I came up with. If anyone knows of others, please put them in the thread and I'll add them to the list.

almond
amber
amber barnboard
antique amber
antique amber barnboard
antique black
antique goldenrod
antique green
antique herringbone
antique orange
antique walnut
appaloosa
arrowhead
bark moss green
beaver pond
beaver tail
black cherry
black cherry herringbone
black plum
black walnut
blood red
blue basketweave
blue jigged
blue river
brick red
brimstone
brown
burnt arrowhead
burnt carved stag bone
burnt goldenrod
burnt grizzly cut
burnt orange
cameo
carved pumpkin
charcoal buffalo bone
chesnut
chocolate
chocolate diamond back
cobblestone
deep purple
desert sand
diamond back amber
diamond back red
dusty rose
egg harbor black
frontier
fuschia
gator
goldenrod
goldenrod smooth
goldenrod wave
good n plenty
grape
green banana
green boker jig
green jigged
green mountain
green tea
hemlock green
herringbone walnut
horse cut amber
horse cut antique
horse cut walnut
inferno
lemon zest
midnight
midnight blue
navajo
old bark
olive standard jig
orange
plum
pond
primitive
purple peach pit
red barn board
red bluegrass jig
red buffalo bone
red hangman
red peach seed
red wine
reptile green
river blue
river blue wave
river valley green
rogers green tea
ruby red
sawcut tan
sheffield tobacco
smooth banana peel
smooth cherry
smooth ivory
smooth mango
smooth oiled
smooth red
smooth white
stained green tea
stonewash blue
strawberry
tan barlow
teal
tractor green
tractor red
turquoise
walnut
yellow basket weave
yellow rose
yellow sheffield

There may be duplicates, because sometimes they call a pattern just "red", sometimes "red jig" and other times "red jigged". So I exercised a little discretion, but the list may have omitions. Let's see if, as a group, we can tighten it up a bit. Please chime in!
 
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There's also a blue basketweave, I'm not sure of the "official name".

The smooth yellow bone before Yellow Rose was Banana Peel. I have a Sunfish with it.

There was also a yellow bone that went awry in the dye process and was used as a very limited run of "Lemon Zest" bone., a #73 Jack.

There is also a Navaho Bone; flat bolster #73?
 
Joe-bob, smooth banana peel was already in the list, I've added the other 3 -- THANKS!
 
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l to r burnt grizz----red wine-river valley green-brown jig--antique walnut--sheffield tobacco.

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l to right.frontier--burnt orange navajo--orange jig--brimstone--appalosa--& smooth white

i inquired of black mamba & in his diligent method his research indicated gec had over 100 types of bone. i ask of other collectors has any new co. ever been so creative.this is part of what i will show & my hope is other gec collectors will picture some different types bones. since this is an on going effort some duplication is unadvoidable. however when have knifenuts gotten fatigued looking at folders?

dennis
 
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Dennis, Jeff...I'm merging the "bone list" thread and the "bone variations" thread as they belong together for illustration purposes and to keep all the data readily accessible for members and GEC aficionados.

(Guess we're all gonna have to bone up on these scales. Good thing you included an ink pen so we can write 'em down. ;))
 
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top photo l to r blood red--amber barnboard--cobblestone--antique amber--yellow rose--& stonewash blue.

next pic l to r . antique orange--goldenrod--horsecut walnut----burnt goldenrod jig--tractor green--& grape jig.

i'm making no effort to identify patterns since i wanted members to see only a small sampling of gec bone.
 
Here's a couple more

amber jigged
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burnt carved stag bone
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Thanks for the merge, Elliott, great idea!

Luciano, quite a few of their handles look close to the same with different names, and then just to complete the cycle, some of the ones with the same name look different, depending on when they were released (appaloosa bone REALLY comes to mind).
 
Good N Plenty
Red Buffalo Bone
Charcoal Buffalo Bone
River Blue Wave (instead of Blue Basketweave)
 
black mamba that appalosa bone was really a confusion for members. as you pointed out the 1st batch looked nothing like the 2nd. then some bone on the new stainless fur trappers was called antique amber bone and it looked like appalosa bone. mike [collectors knives] pointed this out to me some type back. classification of gec is going to be an art more than science.
dennis
 
No, the three left hand Pioneers that came out together (and handles are not listed in the production totals) were Green Mountain, River Blue, and Good N Plenty. It was back when they bought some bone and dyed them in-house and these were all bonestag jigging. The Good N Plenty was a deep purple that got real light to the edges.

Mike Latham
CollectorKnives.Net
 
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