Schrade 100th Anniversary Knives - Show 'em!

[Codger_64]

As most of you remember (or have learned since), Schrade closed it's doors forever in 2004. At that time, they were in the midst of rolling out a line of knives and bling commemorating their 100th anniversary, 1904-2004. Production glitches and financial pressure caused a lot of delays in production and not all of the photo sample anniversary Limited Editions saw the light of day. Some finished and incomplete examples dribbled out of the liquidation sale for a few years and one occasionally shows up on eBay and elsewhere. They made a variety of bling pieces too, some are common as pennies while other are scarce as frog hair. Here is a nice bling, the special 100th Anniversary header board from a floor display cabinet.

And this is an example of the 165ANN knife I bought.

A money clip

Two different Anniversary tins

An unfinished blue bone

Show me your Anniversary knives and bling!

 

[Rusty1]

No bling, just a couple of knives, blue rope bone Trapper and Stockman.

Russell

 

[Codger_64]

Nice! Did you get the boxes too?

 

[Rusty1]

No boxes Michael, just the knives. Still trying to catch the Peanut and Folding Hunter.

Russell

 

[Codger_64]

As I have learned, because of the problems that year, some of the patterns planned never made it beyond the photo sample stage that we see in the flyers. And some never got as far as acquiring production packaging.

 

[rprocter]

i have avoided the "100th Anniversary" knives because i believe the new owners had some of these replicated(knife/box/bling) and i can't tell which are which. am i correct ?
as a side note, "bling" is one of the fine additions to this forum by Aussie Larry. great word, i know of no other except "stuff", but it can even be a verb and is not as specific. we needed the word "bling". i am grateful for this most useful word because bling is everywhere.
roland

 

[aggiebuilder2003]

I've got an unfinished blue bone in amidst my other bone handled Schrades. Sorry it's not the greatest picture.

Chuck

 

[ea42]

Nice examples!! Michael, that 165 is NICE, never seen that one before:thumbup:

Here are two more blue bones, one sans etch and shield. I've yet to see one of those boxes, I wonder if they ever made it to production (other than the photo sample ones).

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And an unfinished 72

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Eric

 

[Codger_64]

i have avoided the "100th Anniversary" knives because i believe the new owners had some of these replicated(knife/box/bling) and i can't tell which are which. am i correct ?
as a side note, "bling" is one of the fine additions to this forum by Aussie Larry. great word, i know of no other except "stuff", but it can even be a verb and is not as specific. we needed the word "bling". i am grateful for this most useful word because bling is everywhere.
roland

There were some "Anniversary" TBLLC knives made IIRC, and some Schrades that were altered aftermarket too. Piles of the shields came out of the auction. I bought a few myself for keepsakes and have a knife that was unshielded, but has the banner cavity in the cover.

Be wary of the Schrade Old Timer 50th anniversary knives that show up too. They are bogus as a three dollar bill.

Besides being issued in 2008, four years after the meltdown, they got the years wrong as a fellow member pointed out to them.

 

[thawk]

Really good thread idea Michael. Eric and Rusty, that finished Blue Rope Cut Bone with the 100 year etch are nice looking knives. I like the oval 100 yr shield too, and too bad they did not put too many on the knives. Michael's 165ANN is frankly the only one of those I have seen.

A knife I've often wondered about that shows up frequently from one seller is an unfinished emerald green bone trapper. I don't think it has a shield, and is a two blade trapper with a 285UH tang stamp. Have not seen one for a while, but the same seller always sold the unfinished Blue Rope Cut Bone too, usually for real high BIN prices. Any way, wondered if that green bone was another pattern that never made it to production, or just frankenknives. Anyone else recall these?

 

[ea42]

I know what you mean Hal, he usually has a tight close-up for the first pics, and prices are quite high. I don't know about that one either, probably an unfinished SFO for someone.

Eric

 

[thawk]

I know what you mean Hal, he usually has a tight close-up for the first pics, and prices are quite high. I don't know about that one either, probably an unfinished SFO for someone.

Eric

Exactly. He has several offbeat patterns that are rarely purchased, and sometimes auctions one off. Thinking it is something like GNN but can't seem to bring anything up.

 

[Codger_64]

Here is another one I have that isn't seen too often. The box is marked "BE152". I have a second one unshielded and unetched.

Here is a relatively inexpensive and not altogether uncommon 100th Anniversary issue that pretty well assures authenticity, the SH3CPANN.

Clampack suggests it was finished in quantity for mass marketer like Wal-Mart just before the curtain fell.

 

[ea42]

Nie sharpie Michael, I've only seen a couple of those, I think they were both in sets (didn't Del have one?).

Here's another one you don't see much of

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Eric

 

[grey menace]

 

[ea42]

Hey GM, I was hoping you'd be posting, that's the only collection of completed blue bones I've seen, BEAUTIFUL!

Eric

 

[Codger_64]

Very nice. Did anyone archive the picture of the diamond bowie when it was auctioned?

 

[ea42]

Sure wish I did, I know I had it on the old watch list, but never saved the pics

Here's another one, SC509:

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Eric

 

[Codger_64]

I really like those! The blade, for such a tiny knife, is very useful in small game processing on the OT pattern. IIRC, a pot-load of those limited edition knives sold after the auction, all unetched and unshielded. I kept waiting for a finished one but...

 

[Rusty1]

Same thing as Eric mentioned, looking for the larger pics of the 100th Bowie. All I could find a while later were the smaller pics below.

Russell