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Hello all. Hopefully I’m not breaking any rule with this post. Please delete if I am.

I recently came across what seems to be an old stag handle knife. Just curious if anyone can help me identify it. I don’t care what it’s worth. Just want to know the maker. I can post more pics if it’ll help. But the only “mark” I can find may not be a mark at all. It looks like it could’ve been a sunburst or something. Thank you!!
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The "sun burst" you think you see could be the scale of the Shefield makers mark. Not sure, Ill see if I can find a Shefield mark to show you. Just my first guess, not sure at all though..
 
It looks like a Solingen made knife (Knife making town in Germany). A photo of the pommel nut might help us.

n2s
 
This is an upside down scale of shefield, could be wrong but I think I can see part of it in the rust of your knife....could be my imagination.
 
PStone said:
Hello all. Hopefully I’m not breaking any rule with this post. Please delete if I am.

I recently came across what seems to be an old stag handle knife. Just curious if anyone can help me identify it. I don’t care what it’s worth. Just want to know the maker. I can post more pics if it’ll help. But the only “mark” I can find may not be a mark at all. It looks like it could’ve been a sunburst or something. Thank you!!
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If you have a Dremel with a little wire wheel, take it and lightly remove the rust around there to see it any potential stamp becomes more visible.
To clean the rest of the blade just use some oil and fine steel wool.

This knife definitely looks like a solingen hunting knife to me, but it also could have come out of Japan in the 50's-60's as they mostly exported and made designs people were familiar with.
 
not2sharp said:
It looks like a Solingen made knife (Knife making town in Germany). A photo of the pommel nut might help us.

n2s
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I know it’s rusty:oops: I’m just not sure how to safely remove it:(. I think it looks cool like this:cool:.
I just want know more about it. I love stag handle knives. This one looks like it’s lived a healthy knife life, and is a great contrast to all the modern folders in my collection.

Thank you for all your fast responses too!
 
Hickory n steel said:
If you have a Dremel with a little wire wheel, take it and lightly remove the rust around there to see it any potential stamp becomes more visible.
To clean the rest of the blade just use some oil and fine steel wool.

This knife definitely looks like a solingen hunting knife to me, but it also could have come out of Japan in the 50's-60's as they mostly exported and made designs people were familiar with.
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This is a harsh method to remove rust. There are ways to remove it chemically, things like soaking it in vinegar overnight then taking a brass brush to it. The brass is softer than the steel, so it won't scratch the bare steel.
 
NJBillK said:
This is a harsh method to remove rust. There are ways to remove it chemically, things like soaking it in vinegar overnight then taking a brass brush to it. The brass is softer than the steel, so it won't scratch the bare steel.
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The wire wheel for a Dremel is fine and soft.
I've used them many times without any scratching.
It takes a light touch and doesn't disturb the patina like soaking in vinegar or chemicals.
In many cases the patina removal from a soak is worse than any potential light scrathiscr anyways.
 
Hickory n steel said:
The wire wheel for a Dremel is fine and soft.
I've used them many times without any scratching.
It takes a light touch and doesn't disturb the patina like soaking in vinegar or chemicals.
In many cases the patina removal from a soak is worse than any potential light scrathiscr anyways.
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This is good to know, but I would prefer to remove a patina than scratch a knife. Patina can be rebuilt. To remove a scratch, you have to remove all of the surrounding material to get to the lowest point of the scratch.

You can't make th Grand Canyon disappear by mowing the lawn on the sides of it... you need to excavate out the surrounding material, since you can't fill it in. Much like a scratch on a knife. You can't fill it, and you can't buff the surrounding area to get rid of a scratch...
 
NJBillK said:
This is good to know, but I would prefer to remove a patina than scratch a knife. Patina can be rebuilt. To remove a scratch, you have to remove all of the surrounding material to get to the lowest point of the scratch.

You can't make th Grand Canyon disappear by mowing the lawn on the sides of it... you need to excavate out the surrounding material, since you can't fill it in. Much like a scratch on a knife. You can't fill it, and you can't buff the surrounding area to get rid of a scratch...
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Yes, this is definitely true.

The reason I recommended the dremel wire wheel is because they're fine and soft.
about 20 seconds with it and a light touch would reveal a tang stamp without any scratching or markings.
You can get just this area to identify the knife and know if you should or shouldn't proceed any further.

Just a quick safe and easy way to reveal a the tang stamp so it can be identified before you proceed
 
brandoak said:
This is an upside down scale of shefield, could be wrong but I think I can see part of it in the rust of your knife....could be my imagination.
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I’ve seen that mark before, just can’t remember the brand. It’s definitely a solingen knife, though. And those who suggested a wire wheel are correct, it won’t damage the blade at all, apart from making it shiny.
I see that’s not the OP’s knife and that I was mistaken.
 
I think it’s a Carl Schlieper Fan Co stamp. “Solingen” really helped me you guys! Thank you all!!
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Also the tips about the oil and steel wool and wire wheel helped more than anything I think:oops:
 
Yonose said:
I’ve seen that mark before, just can’t remember the brand. It’s definitely a solingen knife, though. And those who suggested a wire wheel are correct, it won’t damage the blade at all, apart from making it shiny.
I see that’s not the OP’s knife and that I was mistaken.
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The "scale" mark was used by Alex Coppel of Soligen.

The OP knife is a Solingen made knife. It likely would have been job out to the local cutters and marked with whatever brand the buyer wanted.

n2s
 
PStone said:
Also the tips about the oil and steel wool and wire wheel helped more than anything I think:oops:
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It does look like this tang stamp and most likely is.

Now since you've pretty much identified it, you'll want to use some fine steel wool and some oil to remove all the rust. The rust is not good for the blade, the oil and steel wool is known as the best safe way to remove rust from knives.
There doesn't appear to be a lot of rust anyways, so it won't take long.
 
Glad you found it! That was a tough one.
The scale symbol was used on a few makers then, I remembered it as Shefield...sorry for any confusion.
 
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