Grey Menace

I wish someone would show GM how to post photos...he has some really outstanding knives I have seen him win over the years....including....if my memory serves me correctly....many moons ago...a Mint 2OT for over US$600! Hoo Roo
 
Hi Jackie,yup you got me ,i won it. I got a guy who is gonna help me with pictures, its just hard for us to get together, trying in the up comming week.G.M
 
Hi again,hey Larry that 2OT and alot of my knives are over in the Larry V's collections where yours are on the Schrades are us pages.I had to sell two of my kids and the neighbors dog to get that 2OT. Sometimes there's a knife you just have to have.G.M
 
Grey menace, I think I go through that scenario at least once a week:eek::D

Eric
 
If it is only once a week, you are getting off easy. I'm more like one knife three times a day. Like a horse pill.
 
G.M.

I'm glad to see a member of this forum winning it. You're a good man. Besides, they'll be more.

I recently got a couple dandies myself, a S-W 491 and a Craftsman that appears to be an 491 with a Bear Head. I don't collect the Schrade folders but an excellent conditioned Old Timer 33OT came with the Craftsman. Plus, a rare find in a W.R Case & Son, Brown Bone 600F.

You have a great day.

Jackie
 
Hi Jackie,thanks! I just got a Schrade Walden #142 fixed blade leather ring handles knife,it is alittle over 6 inches. Its the smallest Schrade fixed blade i've seen.Its way smaller than the little Schradebrand or Stagbrand knives made by Geo. Schrade..Do you know anything about these? happy collecting,G.M P.S i think we're getting ready to bid against each other again, good luck.
 
GM,

I have one of those, too. Like you, I don't know much about the 142 Mighty Mite. It's not hardly mentioned.

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Jackie
 
I was reading last night aboth the 14n leather handled series. 1956-1957 I think.. I'll post the info later. It was a surprise finding for me.
TTYL
 
At the December 15-16th, 1955, Imperial Knife Associated Companies, Inc sales meeting held a the Statler Hotel NY, NY
Both the Imperial Delux Tu-Tone pocket knives and Schrade Walden 141L,145L,147L & 148L were announced as new for the 1956 year.
The 141L was being sold at 18.00 per Doz. Leather-washered handle, Carbon steel and Saber ground. the 145L was at 27.00, 147L at 21.00 and the 148L at 24.00
Also announced by S/W was the dropping of "pushbuttons".
A Marlin Spike #735 and a #186 Pruner both in stainless
 
Great info Larry! I note that several of the patterns were made earlier, albeit with Stratawood handles. Also, it was not uncommon to have produced the sheath knives without a pattern number stamped, sometimes with just the pattern number etched, or left off entirely. Short-long blades might be explained by the 140-141-142-143-145-146 variants. A. B. Hourin's notes reflect the following:
141L - 4 1/4"
142L - 3 1/4"
143 - 3 1/2"
145 - 4 1/4"
146 - 4 1/4"
 
grey menace said:
Hi Jackie,thanks! I just got a Schrade Walden #142 fixed blade leather ring handles knife,it is alittle over 6 inches. Its the smallest Schrade fixed blade i've seen.Its way smaller than the little Schradebrand or Stagbrand knives made by Geo. Schrade..Do you know anything about these? happy collecting,G.M P.S i think we're getting ready to bid against each other again, good luck.
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George Schrade made two series of sheath knives. One, most often seen, is the leather handled knives. The other series had faux antler handles made from molded styrene plastic. Each was comprised of five knives, differences being primarily blade length and grind. George (and his son after his death id 1940) made knives under the Stagbrand mark. His son, George M. Schrade sold the company to Boker U.S.A. in 1956. They continued to make the sheath knives using the Schradebrand mark (and sometimes with the Boker tree emblem) until closing the plant in 1958.
#1 - 3 1/4" blade - Medium guage flat ground
#2 - 4" blade - Medium guage flat ground
#3 - 4 3/8" blade - Heavy guage flat ground
#4 - 4 5/8" blade - Heavy guage saber ground
#5 - 5" blade - Heavy guage saber ground

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Here's a question for you guys; I've seen Strata-Wood, Wonda-Wood, Prop-Wood, and I believe the Sears version- Craft-Wood. Is there a difference between any of these materials?

Eric
 
Baer first began using this new resin impregnated wood material circa 1948 and called it "Propwood", then "Strata-wood", and in the mid fifties "Wonda-wood". This evolved into propriatary trade names Fibron and Pakawood. The resins and processes evolved over time, but the material is essentially the same. I'm sure that Baer wasn't the only manufacturer to adopt this material but he was one of the earlier ones. Boker U.S.A.'s George Schrade plant also used it circa 1956-58. Ernst Gerling in Germany was Schrade’s Wondawood supplier into the 1960's.
 
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Thanks Michael, I often wondered if they were all related. I'd forgotten about pakawood, I believe the Case hunters, among other knives , were made with that version.

Eric
 
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