Shapleigh D-E and Relatives!

[knarfeng]

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Sorry to go off track, but, I have a question:
The top knife in this photo, the one with the black handle, might I ask what pattern that is called? It looks very much like my first knife that my dad let me carry as my own. This would have been about 1960 ± a year or so. I was about 8 and the knife was far older than I. I had it for years, even after dad gave me a new pocket knife when I was 12. Lost track of it when I left home or during a move when I was in high school.

Two bladed carbon steel knife with clip main blade and a pen small blade. Similar looking scales and a similar shaped body with the bullet shaped bolsters. I've not seen one with that design currently made. If you happen to know of a current production model of similar design, I'd be interested in that information as well.

Thanks,
Frank R

 

[neeman]

Frank,

My non-expert answer points to
http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/wr_case/patterns_by_number/46_60.php#055

Search ebay for 'Cigar' or 'equal end jack'

 

[6.0stroker]

+1 on the pattern call

 

[knarfeng]

Thanks guys.
Bullseye, Neeman:
3 1/2" equal end jack knife that is most often called a small cigar or senator that Case started making sometime prior to 1940 and stopped making around 1976. They usually have a clip master blade and a pen secondary blade

I'll keep my eyes open and see what I can find.