"Old Knives"

This is junk next to Augie's amazing Camillus, but for me, a knife with almost full blades is a good find, so I'll post it anyway. ;)

I don't know a whole lot about dating Shapleighs, so I'd welcome any input. (18something -1960?) It still needs some more gentle de-rustifying, so I can't tell if there's any stamping on the back side of the tangs.

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Nice Old Ebony R8shell - always love seeing your posts of you picking up these older Beauties, it's funny as you must have influenced me because I picked up a old Ebony Hibbard Spencer & Bartlett Jack a wee while ago- just to bang into my pocket.

Interesting that you are asking about the Shapleigh Tang Dates, I posted this Knife in post #24,535 ( page 1227 ), no one has answered about the dates.

Your Shapleigh Tang Stamps are the same as this Knife. Would it be safe to say that these are Schrade Cut Co made knives? I took a wild guess that my Knife is around mid 40's? I am far from a Schrade expert.
Our Knives seem to be close enough to the same age R8shell - it would be interesting to see a chart of Shapleigh Tang Stamps for era used.


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Oh - here is the Ebony Jack........

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Campbellclanman said:
Nice Old Ebony R8shell - always love seeing your posts of you picking up these older Beauties, it's funny as you must have influenced me because I picked up a old Ebony Hibbard Spencer & Bartlett Jack a wee while ago- just to bang into my pocket.

Interesting that you are asking about the Shapleigh Tang Dates, I posted this Knife in post #24,535 ( page 1227 ), no one has answered about the dates.

Your Shapleigh Tang Stamps are the same as this Knife. Would it be safe to say that these are Schrade Cut Co made knives? I took a wild guess that my Knife is around mid 40's? I am far from a Schrade expert.
Our Knives seem to be close enough to the same age R8shell - it would be interesting to see a chart of Shapleigh Tang Stamps for era used.


4wqhSQN.jpg


6DqNKQ8.jpg



Oh - here is the Ebony Jack........

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OtP8n4Q.jpg


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kmYIJza.jpg
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My goodness, it's been so hard to keep up with the forum this past week or so. Thank you for pointing out your posting from just a few pages back! I'm not any kind of Schrade expert either, but I would bet that our two knives were made in the same place. :) I've looked for any sort of tang stamp chart for Shapleigh, but haven't found much. (What turns up is usually about Keen Kutter)

That's a nice old ebony jack you have, too. 👍👍
 
Added a couple unusual knives this week, a 3 7/8" Maher&Grosh trapper, nice bone, 2 different era tang stamps.

The other is a small 3 3/8" Camillus 64 short line stockman, last of the bone Camillus knives, knife has had little to no use.




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Beautiful finds Augie! I think the reason you have two different stamps on the Mayer is that one of the blades has been replaced. You can see where they botched up the bolster a bit in their attempts at drilling the old pin out. Really tried to spread that new pin to cover it up.

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Beautiful finds Augie! I think the reason you have two different stamps on the Mayer is that one of the blades has been replaced. You can see where they botched up the bolster a bit in their attempts at drilling the old pin out. Really tried to spread that new pin to cover it up.

Eric
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Sure is possible Eric, also most of the mains on these knives were a saber grind. The blade action is perfect and it matches up well to the backspring, I bought it as having been messed with and it was cheap.
 
Here's some of my US made "older" knives. My two favorite patterns.. Stockman and Scout. I don't do much to them outside of oiling and maybe hitting them up with a brass brush. Most of them although stained have their factory edges.

Here are some of my Old Timers, two "Waldens" in the back, 3 34OT's and what I believe a bone scaled 8OT in the center.

If you want more detailed, better pictured of any let me know!

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Here are my Camillus "66" I love that particular knife because it was used in one of my childhood favorite movies "The Black Stallion" Here is a link on another forum with a little history of that model: https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/viewtopic.php?t=20082

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And here some Scout patterns. The white one I just noticed had Official Boy Scouts of America barely visible on the blade.. looks like it was polished off at some point. My Favorite would be the Craftsman.

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Falnor said:
Here's some of my US made "older" knives. My two favorite patterns.. Stockman and Scout. I don't do much to them outside of oiling and maybe hitting them up with a brass brush. Most of them although stained have their factory edges.

Here are some of my Old Timers, two "Waldens" in the back, 3 34OT's and what I believe a bone scaled 8OT in the center.

If you want more detailed, better pictured of any let me know!

LLwrNyI.jpg


Here are my Camillus "66" I love that particular knife because it was used in one of my childhood favorite movies "The Black Stallion" Here is a link on another forum with a little history of that model: https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/knife_forum/viewtopic.php?t=20082

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And here some Scout patterns. The white one I just noticed had Official Boy Scouts of America barely visible on the blade.. looks like it was polished off at some point. My Favorite would be the Craftsman.

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I’m also a sucker for the Craftsman scout knives…

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