My Dads Scouts knife..need help with ID

[meako]

Hi all.
This pic just popped up from my Dad...strangely on Mums fbmsngr...

My Uncle in England apparently has it...not bad condition for its age...my Dad is 86...which puts him in Scouts some 70 yrs ago around 1950 at age 16.
I have not seen it before...suggested some leather dressing for the handle.
Could be a Rodgers?

 

[screened porch]

Very nice, whatever it is.
Jack Black will probably recognize that cross.

 

[IaccidentlyCutmyThumb]

isn't that a marbles of some sort?

 

[afishhunter]

isn't that a marbles of some sort?

This was my first thought as well.
However, after looking closer at the tang stamp, the arrow looks like the one used by Russell on their Barlow bolsters, sans the pierced "R".

Did Russell make hunting/sheath knives? Who else had an arrow tang stamp?

 

[BrotherJim]

Hi all.
This pic just popped up from my Dad...strangely on Mums fbmsngr...
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My Uncle in England apparently has it...not bad condition for its age...my Dad is 86...which puts him in Scouts some 70 yrs ago around 1950 at age 16.
I have not seen it before...suggested some leather dressing for the handle.
Could be a Rodgers?

Nice One !!! If it doesn't have "Sheffield England" stamped somewhere on it, could be it wasn't ever intended for export. Don't think it's a Rodgers, based on this Rodgers that appears to be similar vintage as yours ...

 

[BrotherJim]

... I believe it's a Wade & Butcher Sheffield until proven otherwise
I've seen the arrow and circled B one at least one Wade & Butcher fixed blade knife
And several Wade & Butcher with the exact same leather and spacer configuration (unlike the Rodgers above) ... but different tang stamps
( W. & S. Butcher Ltd )

If doing research, might take a look at "Wade & Butcher hunting knives" and see what you can find

EDIT: Not exactly like yours, but one example of a Wade & Butcher tang stamp ...
I'm pretty sure yours is a Wade & Butcher. No so sure of the model, but the pattern is very similar to their "Teddy" (Theodore Roosevelt)

 

[Campbellclanman]

Yes it is Wade and Butchers Brand of the Arrow and Maltese Cross- it should have Wade & Butcher on the other side of the Tang.
To satisfy your curiosity- Google Wade and Butcher

 

[Jack Black]

Great to see that Jon

 

[meako]

Thanks for the help goodly Porchenbergers.
Yes the pic popped up out of the blue from Dad....I'll check out w&b..and I want to see the other side.
Cheers.

 

[Jack Black]

It would be great to hear some of your dad's memories of carrying and using the knife Jon When I was a boy in Sheffield, we all carried knives like that, just as our fathers and grandfathers did

 

[screened porch]

When I was a boy in Sheffield, we all carried knives like that, just as our fathers and grandfathers did

Cool. We never did.

 

[meako]

It would be great to hear some of your dad's memories of carrying and using the knife Jon When I was a boy in Sheffield, we all carried knives like that, just as our fathers and grandfathers did

Yes it would JB...I will pester him for more info..

 

[Jack Black]

Yes it would JB...I will pester him for more info..

Fantastic Jon

 

[meako]

He tells me I wouldnt have passed The DirtyFists Knife Slingers safety test.....just because I snipped the top of my finger off with secateurs 2 days ago in an extreme gardening accident.... Nevertheless I aim to get that knife in hand....its an heirloom imo.
Cheers.

 

[Sventhelumberjack]

Ouch! Hope the finger heals up and that you are able to get the knife!

 

[meako]

Update....its on the way to me...RESULT!..

 

[meako]

 

[Markesharp]

That is cool knife my friend.
It has been used but not abused.

 

[meako]

It would appear my Uncle has had it for the last ...ooohh...60 years or more. Im excited.

 

[Jack Black]

Here's some pics of the old Wade & Butcher works Jon