Help with identifying the model # of a German made Boker.

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Mike Eldreth

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I don’t know a great deal about Boker knives but hopefully one of you will know the model and manufacturing time period of a knife that I recently obtained It’s a 4” stockman and it has no model number anywhere that I can find. The handles appear to be wood and blades are carbon steel It’s a shame that the previous owner(s) didn’t take better care of it.
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I can't help identify your knife but I would be happy to have one like that. Yeah it's not perfect because of the pitting but it's edges show very little wear. That one still has a lot of life left .
 
I could be wrong, but I'm not aware of Boker using model numbers for its traditional knives. All I remember seeing is the pattern name and handle material. A lot of the newer ones include the blade steel, but over the years it's mostly just ID'd the blade steel as Carbon or Stainless.
 
knarfeng said:
I could be wrong, but I'm not aware of Boker using model numbers for its traditional knives. All I remember seeing is the pattern name and handle material. A lot of the newer ones include the blade steel, but over the years it's mostly just ID'd the blade steel as Carbon or Stainless.
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It has that 60's to 70's era look and feel to me ,but without any sort of dating system or model number it's purely a guess on my part.
 
It looks to me like a model 7474. They made them with a few different handle materials, including wood.

Boker would lightly etch the large blade with the model number on some 7474's. But use, corrosion, and the act of removing corrosion could easily remove the etch.
 
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True enough. Never was a fan of etched blades for that very reason.
I saw an American made Boker listed on ebay a few months ago with the model etched onto the clip blade. Evidently, the two sides produced knives in much different ways.
A little off-topic; to me learning a manufacturers history is part of the appeal of knife collecting. You can be a bonified expert in say Case knives, then be totally lost when it comes to Buck. One must be a pretty smart cookie and spent countless hours doing research to know a little bit about several different manufacturers.
 
Best guess - 1960s. From what I have seen, some German-made Boker tang stamps didn't have an umlaut over the "O" in Boker during most of the 1960s.
 
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