Scout Knife

smiling-knife

smiling-knife

Joined
Nov 11, 2006
Messages
2,697
Recently acquired this scout knife. The blade is aproximately 5 inches long and the overall length about 9 inches. The tang is marked P. Holmberg, Eskilstuna on one side and Sweden on the other. It has a nice etch of a scout on the blade. I think it was made in the 1930s perhaps in celebration of a world jamboree held in Sweden in 1935.
Scout31.jpg

Scout003.jpg
 
Nice knife smiling! I really like those old stag handled fixed hunters (have an Eye Brand myself).

That etching is amazing! I'd be curious to know how it was done, I'd imagine it would have to have been pretty sophisticated. I would imagine something similar to the process they used to put photographs into metal printing plates?
 
Thank-you for the responses everyone. The stag section is made in two pieces and then pinned like a full tang. The seam is obviously visible top and bottom but it looks fine in my opinion.
 
Very nice knife. Ironically, the BSA has mostly outlawed fixed blades now.

Rick
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top