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Hello
My name is Troy and I am one of many new members that will most likely be very active for a few weeks and then disappear. As an active forum participant on other topics, I feel it is only right to be clear.
I have been searching for a Hen & Rooster specific group, but I cannot find one. Five years ago my father in law passed. He was an avid collector of knives and guns. The guns I know and would never sell them. The knives are a horse of a totally different color. As we began cleaning out mom's house, we began to find toolboxes filled with knives. All sizes, types, and manufacturers...about a thousand Frost knives, hundreds of case knives, and over a hundred Hen & Rooster. I have finally got to the box of Hen & Rooster and I find myself inept and ignorant.
As a lifelong first responder, I have always been in love with tactical knives. Belt clips and assisted blades are my daily carries. The Zero Tolerance MK was the best knife I ever held. I left it on a stack of cardboard and recycled my $400 love of my belt. On the farm, I adore fixed blades. I now have a stack of skinning knives from Case, Camilus, Colt, and Hen & Rooster. There is also a 75 year old buck skinner in there that I will not sell and cannot use, so I just hold it once in a while and imagine what a great job it would do....But that is not why I write.
As we amassed this collection and realized just how many there were and how much money was involved, we had to do something. We already had a farm website, so we started a store. As I have time, I photograph, research, and publish our knives for sale. The knives we haven't claimed as our own. I have been putting off cataloguing the H&R knives. There is not much on the web about them and it is difficult for a novice to find the correct info. Many of our H&R knives do not have barcodes and there are not any of what I have for sale on other sites. Case has such a large community that it was very easy to research and the tang stamps are easy to decipher.
I have added about thirty H&R's when I got to a Bertram stamped 102MG. It is clearly a canoe but I cannot tell what the handles are. It looks like corelon, but one internet search stated that bertram used MG to connotate Mother of pearl, but with the blue swirls, I have not seen any mop not "pearl". More than just identifying this particular knife. the Hen & Rooster 102MG This listing is not complete, but I could not figure out another way to add a photo.
Does anyone out there understand H&R? I have figured out that there is the original bertram and then it went to hen & rooster. When did barcodes start being used? Does anyone know all the part number abreviations? Are the knives labelled "German Stainless" younger and/or less valuable than those labelled rostfrei?
Ultimately, if anyone has basic knowledge of how to identify Hen & Rooster knives, I would really appreciate it.
My name is Troy and I am one of many new members that will most likely be very active for a few weeks and then disappear. As an active forum participant on other topics, I feel it is only right to be clear.
I have been searching for a Hen & Rooster specific group, but I cannot find one. Five years ago my father in law passed. He was an avid collector of knives and guns. The guns I know and would never sell them. The knives are a horse of a totally different color. As we began cleaning out mom's house, we began to find toolboxes filled with knives. All sizes, types, and manufacturers...about a thousand Frost knives, hundreds of case knives, and over a hundred Hen & Rooster. I have finally got to the box of Hen & Rooster and I find myself inept and ignorant.
As a lifelong first responder, I have always been in love with tactical knives. Belt clips and assisted blades are my daily carries. The Zero Tolerance MK was the best knife I ever held. I left it on a stack of cardboard and recycled my $400 love of my belt. On the farm, I adore fixed blades. I now have a stack of skinning knives from Case, Camilus, Colt, and Hen & Rooster. There is also a 75 year old buck skinner in there that I will not sell and cannot use, so I just hold it once in a while and imagine what a great job it would do....But that is not why I write.
As we amassed this collection and realized just how many there were and how much money was involved, we had to do something. We already had a farm website, so we started a store. As I have time, I photograph, research, and publish our knives for sale. The knives we haven't claimed as our own. I have been putting off cataloguing the H&R knives. There is not much on the web about them and it is difficult for a novice to find the correct info. Many of our H&R knives do not have barcodes and there are not any of what I have for sale on other sites. Case has such a large community that it was very easy to research and the tang stamps are easy to decipher.
I have added about thirty H&R's when I got to a Bertram stamped 102MG. It is clearly a canoe but I cannot tell what the handles are. It looks like corelon, but one internet search stated that bertram used MG to connotate Mother of pearl, but with the blue swirls, I have not seen any mop not "pearl". More than just identifying this particular knife. the Hen & Rooster 102MG This listing is not complete, but I could not figure out another way to add a photo.
Does anyone out there understand H&R? I have figured out that there is the original bertram and then it went to hen & rooster. When did barcodes start being used? Does anyone know all the part number abreviations? Are the knives labelled "German Stainless" younger and/or less valuable than those labelled rostfrei?
Ultimately, if anyone has basic knowledge of how to identify Hen & Rooster knives, I would really appreciate it.
