Interesting Boker! Please add your Boker Tang Stamps!

[waynorth]

Though not very knowledgeable about Bokers - they seem to have many iterations and origins - I still bought this 3 11/16" 4-blade Cattle knife! The various blades are nice examples of each type, and the bone is very attractive. I just wish there was more info on the Tang Stamps.
I did not find a thread devoted to the various Boker stampings, so hopefully this thread will help to write the details of Boker!
Please add your tang stamps and knowledge!!

 

[MerryMadMonk]

Charlie, I don't know much about Bokers, but that's a good looking knife!

Here's a tang stamp chart from Knife World...

 

[r8shell]

I was just about to post that tang stamp chart, but Al beat me to it! That's a great knife, Charlie! I guess it could be a Boker USA 1928-1930s, but the font doesn't look exactly like the one on the chart.

A problem with trying to date Bokers, is that they reused stamps almost randomly. It's like the Case "Heritage Stamps" only worse. One of my favorites has a stamp that says

H. Boker & co.
Solingen
Germany

Which could make it 1891-1944, except that it also has a tree to the left of the stamp, so that exact version isn't on the chart. It also has a nice little tree on the secondary blades.

 

[Will Power]

On a Copperhead

On a Jigged Bone stainless Penknife

 

[danno50]

That is a good looking cattle knife, Charlie! I have only one older Boker: H.BOKER & CO'S over IMPROVED over CUTLERY, with no tree beside it. There is a very worn tree on the pile side of the master blade. If I read the chart right this was the only tang stamp used both in Germany and the US. This one likely made in the US from 1899 to the 1920s, as no Germany anywhere on the knife.

 

[waynorth]

Whatta bunch!!! I love it when several people ride to the rescue!! Thank you to all!
It's nice to hear that the knife is likely USA - made, and has at least some age to it!
Well, don't stop now my friends! Let's hear more about Boker!
I do have a Boker Barlow with an unusual Bolster Stamp - again made in the USA.

 

[bflying]

Nothing old or unusual. I called and asked for the deets a few years ago. But memory isn't so great. Hunter model 2020HCB. Made in Solingen sometime in the 90's. The covers were called Honeycomb Bone. They also told me how many were produced in the run. I don't remember exactly, but think it was somewhere under 100. May have been closer to 50 for that specific version.

 

[paulhilborn]

Interesting Charlie, I think Duncan has a Boker with the very same tang stamp

 

[meako]

 

[herder]

Though not very knowledgeable about Bokers - they seem to have many iterations and origins - I still bought this 3 11/16" 4-blade Cattle knife! The various blades are nice examples of each type, and the bone is very attractive. I just wish there was more info on the Tang Stamps.
I did not find a thread devoted to the various Boker stampings, so hopefully this thread will help to write the details of Boker!
Please add your tang stamps and knowledge!!
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Very nice Boker Cattleman, waynorth.
While Boker Stockman models are fairly common, Boker Cattleman models are not, especially your 4-blade example. Boker introduced the Cattleman models in the late 1800s and at least as early as 1898.
Production stopped prior to WWII, and the Cattleman models were not brought back after the war. They were basically replaced by camper and similar Stockman variations. All of the Cattleman variations shown in catalogs from 1898 up through about 1930 display 3-blade models with different blade configurations. I suspect your 4-blade model was a late entry before they were discontinued in the later 1930s.
Boker Cattleman models were made both in Germany and in the United States, yours is an American made model.
Enclosed is a catalog illustration from 1928 showing a few different configurations.

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[Peregrin]

Cool thread, Charlie!
This was the pocket knife my dad carried just before he passed. I don't know much about it, other than it's a Boker Copperhead. It's one of my prized possessions.

 

[black mamba]

Gary, I've seen that United Boker shield dated to 1984-1994.

 

[Peregrin]

Gary, I've seen that United Boker shield dated to 1984-1994.

Much appreciated, Jeff. He possibly could have carried it for 10 to 20 years. That's nice to know.

 

[waynorth]

Thanks for offering up yet more Boker markings and information folks!
What model is yours, meako ?
Great info and catalog cut, H herder !!

 

[meako]

Errm locking folder I'd say Charlie.
Im a big fan of Bokers washboard bone.

 

[Will Power]

meako I have one of those, a fine lockback, great slicer and I too appreciate the Washboard Bone. Pity they stopped it. I gave Andi a Whittler with it but the GREEN version, that looks great too. Excellent in the hand.

Thanks, Will

 

[Will Power]

Talking of lockbacks, here's a tang difficult to get a picture of. On Böker's very small Stag lock back in stainless. I think Peregrin Gary has one but in some type of Quince wood and Damascus?

 

[Peregrin]

Talking of lockbacks, here's a tang difficult to get a picture of. On Böker's very small Stag lock back in stainless. I think Peregrin Gary has one but in some type of Quince wood and Damascus?

I was trying to find one in Stag and Damascus but they are hard to come by.
Here's a few pics of the Boker Will mentioned. It appears to have DAMAST below Boker on the Mark side tang. The pile side tang is marked Solingen and Germany. The wood is Thuya Burl.

 

[kvaughn]

Any info on the Boker Arbolito's? Made in Argentina I think.--KV

 

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