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I was hoping someone here could help me out with these. I recently picked up two of these new in the boxes at a small antique store in Macomb, Illinois while visiting my daughter at college. One is a large two blade folding hunter with black scales with the blade marked 4624. The other is a three blade stockman with white scales with the blade marked 4432. Both have what look to be a brushed satin finish on the blades. These are both in unused condition and I paid $35 for the pair. Any help would be welcome.

John
 
Stomper,
Nice find.
What I can tell you is that the black handled 4624 is called "Gunpowder Black" made of Delrin as is the 4432 which is from the Ol'Ivory line. Textoothpk and others can give you a lot more info on these knives than I but they are nice knives and mint are harder and harder to find.
There are a couple of Frontier threads in these postings which I cant find at the moment. I remember some great pictures by Phil and LT.
I'll look again.
TTYL
Larry
 
Irv - thanks for the help. I enjoy hunting for the older knives almost as much as I like finding them!

John
 
Ya got some nice ones at a good price, Stomper. My favorite brand.
Seeing a new interest in these with the downfall of Schrade. See Ebay for what I mean. People are making the Schrade connection mistakenly, however. These knives were made under the umbrella of the IKCO companies, which included Schade, Imperial and Ulster... but they were actually made by Camillus (BR Levine saw them being made there when he visited in late 70s or early 80s.

Here are two other of my favorites, that big, bad, old tradional folding hunter pattern 5 1/4" long. The kinda knife that Buck killed by inventing the 110 folder. Different handled models had different blades. I like the big skinner on the wood handled 'Double Eagle'.

Plenty of these around, although growing more expensive and more scarce. Fun to collect, but more importantly, these are GREAT USERS.

Thanks for bringing up this topic, Stomper.

Phil
 
The bottom knife in the picture has the exact same handle shape and blades as mine, only my handle is black.

John
 
Yes, as the catalog pages Larry showed, that is true.

Also.. I came back to make this point clear: The original Frontiers, as you have, as I like so much, are the ones I am referring to above. With the Powderhorn logo, or the Wood handled Double eagles. The later Frontiers, some made in Ireland at the Schrade owned plant, or at the Imperial factory here, are different animals; they were made to hit a much lower price point market.

A very rare couple of these folding hunters are the Davy Crocket and Daniel Boone commemoratives. Listed in the Schrade limited edition section of BR Levine's issue four.

Phil
 
Thanks for the information, Phil. I can remember back in the mid 70`s that Kmart used to have the big display boards of these knives.

John
 
No idea about the knives, but I graduated from WIU in '91 with a Recreation degree. It was a nice place to attend college.

-Bob
 
My final word on these great knives (until next time the subject is brought up). Here is one I bought on ebay last night. I'm putting 'advertising' and special issue frontiers in all the slots in one of my old Frontier dealer display cases. But the point is, my Ebay 'handle' is shown there, and if any of you guys wanna bid on a frontier, just email me and I will back off. Serious, don't hesitate.
Phil
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=6518318185&ssPageName=STRK:MEAFB:IT
 
If you are camp9mm, then I've bid against you before without knowing it. Kind of funny, you see names come up frequently on the same knives you are looking at and kind of get a feeling for how the "name" bids. I've seen your handle many times and have always considered you to be real comptition. I mean that in a friendly way, as in you are a guy that knows his knives and is serious about the bidding.
 
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