Parker Edwards yard sale find Help!

[chuck4570]

Yesterday I found a Parker Edwards lock back knife at a yard sale and I would like help identifying it and possibly whet it was made. It’s a heavy knife with a blade about 3 3/4” long and it looks like Damascus steel, jigged bone scales, looks like it was never used.

 

[Lansky1]

I collect USA Parkers and that is definitely damascus. That pattern is unusual (I hesitate to say rare, but I can't say I've ever seen one). Super nice find

 

[meako]

Wow...nice find !
...is that what they call a Clasp knife...?
If you dont mind me asking ..what was the damage?

 

[Rich S]

Yes, Parker-Edwards. A short time collaboration between Jim Parker and Fein Edwards (who made the damascus blade). I have one also, but not that model. Mine is more like a Buck 110 folding hunter. Good knife IMHO and great find.
Rich

 

[chuck4570]

meako , 5 bucks and they threw in a Zippo lighter.

 

[Misplaced Hillbilly]

meako , 5 bucks and they threw in a Zippo lighter.

5 bucks AND threw in a zippo Thats one heck of a deal!! I was looking online about another Parker knife earlier and found this pic on pinterest with a bit of information

 

[Old Hunter]

Jacksonville AL would be the current Bear & Son plant - believe Parker owned it first. OH

 

[meako]

The whole who owned what and did what with whom history is a tangled web.
5bux & a zippo ! I'd buy a lottery ticket...your luck is in.

 

[kvaughn]

The whole who owned what and did what with whom history is a tangled web.
5bux & a zippo ! I'd buy a lottery ticket...your luck is in.

Very tangled if Jim Parker was involved.--KV

 

[chuck4570]

Thanks all for your comments and knowledge, it’s definitely a Clasp pattern a little bigger and heavier than I carry and I don,t see it sitting in my drawer. Not sure what I’m going to do with it but I couldn’t pass it up.