Codger_64
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A few days ago I made this post:
The prompting occasion was my nabbing another example that flew under the radar for $22. I was all set to pick up a third one tonight, but this one drew some flack (30 bids) and ended just under $50. I guess interest in these oddities is increasing.
Whoever won it, be advised that it isn't finished and won't cut butter, and the unglazed scales are so rough, you wouldn't want to use it even if it was sharpened and polished. It is definately one to put up and admire. And being unfinished, there is no packaging missing, nor an infernal clampack to destroy before you can coon-finger and chicken-eye it. One hint... these knives like to be called "...my precious..".
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Here are a pair of 897UH that I found just after the Schrade auction.
The dark one which I call a "blackie", has been left unfinished, unglazed and unsharpened. The collector I bought it from had several patterns of UH knives like this and said he acquired them quite a few years (10-15) before the closure. I recently bought another one just like it.
The second knife I call a "buckskin". It came from the same source and unlike the darker knives, appears to be undyed yet a totally different color base Delrin. It has been glazed and lightly sharpened.
These knives don't come around very often, and probably don't have much collector value, but they are neat examples of knives during production.
The prompting occasion was my nabbing another example that flew under the radar for $22. I was all set to pick up a third one tonight, but this one drew some flack (30 bids) and ended just under $50. I guess interest in these oddities is increasing.
Whoever won it, be advised that it isn't finished and won't cut butter, and the unglazed scales are so rough, you wouldn't want to use it even if it was sharpened and polished. It is definately one to put up and admire. And being unfinished, there is no packaging missing, nor an infernal clampack to destroy before you can coon-finger and chicken-eye it. One hint... these knives like to be called "...my precious..".
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