Knife pattern question.

[mg357]

I knife pattern question. When was the Scout Knife pattern invented?

 

[MUFC4Benfica1]

I don't know, so speculating:

Scouts 1907?
Same toolset as the 1891 SAK?
Similar toolset to 1869 Boker? (and Hartkopf, Hubertus)

Perhaps created in the second half of the 19th century in Germany as a soldatenmesser and adopted by the Boy Scouts in the first half of the 20th century.

 

[abcdef]

Around 1800 years ago - Rome. The blade is rusted out in the upper right.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

Might find some pertinent details in the thread linked below, from Bernard Levine's sub-forum here on BF:

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/first-4-blade-camper-knife.869313/

From within that thread, Bernard Levine himself posted this (see the last line, specifically):

Victorinox obtained Swiss patents for knives that had been made for centuries in other countries, notably Germany, France, Bohemia, and England.
One can get a Swiss patent on anything, if one is Swiss.

The modern round end 4 blade utility knife, aka scout knife, along with its 6 blade cousin, was a hybrid of the older multi-blade construction from Europe, with the American equal-end cattle knife.

The e-e cattle knife dates circa 1880s, a beefed up version of the senator pen knife of the 1820s.

The modern round end 4 blade utility knife, aka scout knife, appeared between 1900 and 1910.

BRL...

 

[mg357]

Thank you so much for this information.