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Here is one from the 1960 Sears Fall - Winter catalog, the J.C. Higgins etched #625 (SW 147L).
This one came with the hunting theme "Buck-duck-grouse" embossed right-handed sheath. In the catalog, all sheaths were illustrated with the "mother-of-corn" floral emboss, so this sheath may or may not be correct for this knife (but is for the pattern). Catalog illustrators, both for Schrade Walden and Sears, took artistic liberty in depicting sheath tooling in the fifties and sixties.
The Higgins mark was not used many years on Schrade Walden hunting knives, Western hunting knives being favored for that mark earlier in the 1950's and Craftsman more used on Schrade Waldens than the Higgins mark. Until the Ted Williams mark began to be used some time around 1962. For years the marks on Schrade Walden hunting knives sold by Sears were etches added to the factory tang stamps, sometimes with the SW pattern number purposely deleted from the stamp.
Michael
This one came with the hunting theme "Buck-duck-grouse" embossed right-handed sheath. In the catalog, all sheaths were illustrated with the "mother-of-corn" floral emboss, so this sheath may or may not be correct for this knife (but is for the pattern). Catalog illustrators, both for Schrade Walden and Sears, took artistic liberty in depicting sheath tooling in the fifties and sixties.
The Higgins mark was not used many years on Schrade Walden hunting knives, Western hunting knives being favored for that mark earlier in the 1950's and Craftsman more used on Schrade Waldens than the Higgins mark. Until the Ted Williams mark began to be used some time around 1962. For years the marks on Schrade Walden hunting knives sold by Sears were etches added to the factory tang stamps, sometimes with the SW pattern number purposely deleted from the stamp.
Michael