Schrade 895 question

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waliguy

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Got it last week in a group of 9 OTs (well, 8 OTs and this one)...but from what I've read on the threads, it might just be a best gem in the batch.

895 was, from what I read, discontinued. Made for possibly some hardware stores in the Midwest circa the 1960s? A predecessor to the OT or UH line? Any info would be great. Thanks guys.
 
waliguy,
The info I have on the 895 is that it is 3-9/16"; stockman pattern; jigged derlin handles. It is in the series of knives known as Open Stock. In 1975 it sold new for $10.00. It was discontinued sometime between 1975 & 1980. From the picture I have in the 1973 & 1975 Shortline catalogs it appears to have a slim or "Turkish" clip blade.
It is the same size at the 897UH. That along with the fact that the 895 had the Turkish clip blade makes it a logical candidate, (at least in my mind), that it was the predecessor of the 897UH.
A great pattern. I have a 897 in my pocket at this very moment. It is large enough to be very useful and small enough to fix comfortably in the pocket.

Dale
 
Thanks Dale. It's a great knife, and came as sort of a suprise in the lot of 9 knives. It's been carried! It does have the slim/Turkish blade. I'd be curious to know what hardware store it was made for.
 
The Open Stock patterns were not necessarily made for any company, though I am sure they could order some if they wanted. They were the standard knives Schrade & Schrade Walden produced before the Old Timer and Uncle Henry series got so popular.
In the 1973 Shortline catalog there are 9 Old Timer patterns listed and 7 Uncle Henry patterns. The rest of the catalog were the Open Stock knives. Just the standard production Schrade knives. I like them myself. There was a larger selection of patterns to choose from than later when it was mostly Old Timer & Uncle Henry.

Dale
 
orvet said:
The Open Stock patterns were not necessarily made for any company, though I am sure they could order some if they wanted. They were the standard knives Schrade & Schrade Walden produced before the Old Timer and Uncle Henry series got so popular.
There was a larger selection of patterns to choose from than later when it was mostly Old Timer & Uncle Henry.Dale
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Dale,
That was before they started making the Buck Rogers/space age stuff,wasn't it?
Ron
 
Ron,
Yes. It was before even a lot of the newer Old Timer & Uncle Henry patterns. I believe Codger said that some of the Open Stock patterns were the forerunners of some of the OT & UH patterns.

In the 1973 shortline catalog there were 6 OT, 7 UH and 58 Open Stock (35), Horticultural (5), Razor Blade Stainless (8), 8 of the 49er series of fixed blades and the H15 & 138L. The majority were the Open Stock.

By 2002 there were 28 OT patterns, 8 UH patterns, bunches of the new "Buck Rogers" patterns. The only remnants of the Open Stock patterns were a Florist knife (175RB) and 2 sampler knives, which were listed in 1973 as part of the Blade Stainless series.

Dale
 
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