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Some better pics of tang stamps, nothing has been cleaned yet. I'm concerned about the Ulster with that tang stamp, looks weird.
 
Good scores, love the Ulster and the Mop, well actually all of them:thumbup::thumbup:

Pete
 
Said it before, a modern manufacturer needs to revive the use of tip bolsters they make many patterns look remarkable. Your pix prove the point.

thanks, Will
 
From the info I've found on Robeson I believe the knife was rehandled the 6 says it should be bone or composite, and I can't find anywhere the model 80 Ulster. Anybody take a guess if they can find it, please. The Garland is the first bone handled one I've been able to find but not a lot about age.
 
The Robeson has definitely been rehandled. Interestingly, the pattern number has the suffix "1-4", which is another way Robeson had of stating, "1/4".

I have no idea why they added the suffix. Such a suffix, and there were several different ones, always indicated a departure from the ordinary pattern, whether it was a different blade configuration, a bail, etc.
 
I believe from the tang stamp the knife is from the 1922-1939 era, it's my first Robeson and could'nt leave it behind. Anyone find the Ulster 80 yet and is that a legit tang stamp, it looks like the model 40 from what I've found.
 
Thanks for the replies everyone I thank I've been very lucky here lately. If anyone saw the cubscout knife I got recently I gifted that to a scout master who had the same model when he first became a scout master and had broken the main blade, he loves it.
 
What great finds! :) The Robeson may have been re-handled, but I still think it has loads of character :thumbup:
 
PCL said:
I believe from the tang stamp the knife is from the 1922-1939 era, it's my first Robeson and could'nt leave it behind. Anyone find the Ulster 80 yet and is that a legit tang stamp, it looks like the model 40 from what I've found.
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Dave, I looked through 145 pages of Ulster periodicals and could not find a match, the 40 uses full bolsters, there is a #13 jack that has the same bolsters as yours but handle is cigar shape and no long pull on the clip blade. Get a magnifying glass and look at the back of the tang stamp at different angles and varying light, you might find a number, I have had luck in the past finding things that I couldn't see with the naked eye doing this.

#40 from 1960
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I agree this is the closest match I could find so far, I'll keep looking, see if I can dig something else up.

Pete
 
Do you mean on the spine near the stamp or closer down near the bolster? Thanks for taking the time. Even the stamp looks hand stamped or very very poorly done, the letters aren't even.
 
Well I think I'm going to clean up the Robeson, maybe try to put bone handles on it or just leave on what it has. Only time will tell.
 
The Craftsman Sta-Sharp 9530 was sold by Sears from 1941-1942. It was not sold by them after that likely due to wartime materials restrictions. It was produced for them by Albert Baer's newly acquired Ulster, among the first knives he produced after he took over that company from the Divine family in the winter of 1940. The retail price was 98 cents. That is equal to just over $15 in today's dollars.

Michael
 
Well I have looked and looked still no luck on the Ulster 80, all the knives I've posted from recent purchases and c- list haul came from the same person who bought them at an estate sale. All vintage all identifiable but the Ulster, hard to believe this is a fake(?). Can anyone tell me if the blade etch corresponds with a known period?
 
What's odd to me about the Ulster, how worn and illegible the tang stamp is, but yet the blade is shiny smooth and the blade etch is perfect. My guess, that blades' been buffed and re-etched.

What about the tang stamp on that Craftsman? What does cold stamping look like?

If these were mine, I'd post them up at the Bernard Levine forum area with good close-up pics of the tang stamps and other knife features.
 
Bob W said:
What's odd to me about the Ulster, how worn and illegible the tang stamp is, but yet the blade is shiny smooth and the blade etch is perfect. My guess, that blades' been buffed and re-etched.

What about the tang stamp on that Craftsman? What does cold stamping look like?

If these were mine, I'd post them up at the Bernard Levine forum area with good close-up pics of the tang stamps and other knife features.
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I wouldn't think the Ulster has been buffed and re-etched, looking at the condition of the rest of the knife I don't think the knife has been touched at all, in this case it would probably be a weaker Factory stamp.
 
Thanks everyone, maybe Bernard can help. Bob what do you mean about cold stamping and the craftsman tang stamp? Always want to learn.
 
PCL said:
Thanks everyone, maybe Bernard can help. Bob what do you mean about cold stamping and the craftsman tang stamp? Always want to learn.
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I can't answer, as it's something I'd like to learn about. :thumbup:
 
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