Hammer Brand bone handle knife ?? Show what you have please.

[holo07]

Never knew Hammer Brand made bone handle knives. Is this one real? The knife cleaned up wonderfully and the old carbon steel took a great edge. Please show yours if you have one. I love the old Hammer Brand knives.

 

[Arathol]

Hammer Brand dates from the years well before WW2, from the last quarter of the 19th century up until the early 1930s. These were mostly high quality knives made by New York Knife Co.
Imperial bought the name in 1936 and used it on their cheap shell handle knives.

 

[lambertiana]

The bone (and tang stamp don’t look like anything I have seen from NYKC. Imperial is well known for the vast quantities of cheap shell handle Hammer Brand knives that they made. I wonder if they made this, too.

 

[danno50]

With the USA vertically at the right side of the tang stamp, I am sure it was Imperial made. Nice bone.

 

[Arathol]

With the USA vertically at the right side of the tang stamp, I am sure it was Imperial made. Nice bone.

Imperial did in the early days make bone handled knives.

The USA marking would date to the years just after WW2, maybe to the mid 1950s.
I would bet that this was made after the Imperial / Ulster / Schrade merger, as it looks like it may have been made using tooling for an Ulster made stockman pattern. Not a lot made like this, but they do exist.

 

[SteveC]

A couple of Imperials

 

[danno50]

Imperial did in the early days make bone handled knives.

Exactly what I was implying. I have seen pictures of many, but, never in person.

 

[holo07]

I have couple Imperial bone handle also, never know that they made knives under different names.

 

[abcdef]

Let's See Your (Traditional) Hammer Brand!​

Interesting. Do not search that exclamatory sentence!