Show Your Vintage Schrade Scrimshaw Designs by F. Giorgianni

[edbeau]

Same guy at work got this Barlow off the bay. The blade was rusted so there was no way to save the engraving on the main blade.




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[Codger_64]

Here is the production 1983 "Scrimshaw Of The Great Outdoors" SC502 artwork by F.G. A SFO was also made for Kmart that year using the same artwork reversed and imprinted on the opposite side of the handle, tang stamped blade left SC205.

 

[Motey]

Here are a few more, from the first two designs they did;

 

[GASOUTHERNBOY]

Beautiful knife and a great find Rusty1

 

[GASOUTHERNBOY]

This knife sure does look familiar...lol Thanks for the help edbeau.

 

[delmas2nd]

i have looked and looked turned the laptop on its side and still cannot figure out what the figure is.

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[ea42]

That's a sailing ship, look at it with the blade pointing down.

Eric

 

[Codger_64]

 

[delmas2nd]

thanks that is what i thought it looked like but wasn't sure. i didn't turn the laptop completely upside down.

 

[bawana]

thanks that is what i thought it looked like but wasn't sure. i didn't turn the laptop completely upside down.

The Mayflower was the ship that transported mostly English Puritans and Separatists, collectively known today as the Pilgrims, from Plymouth England to the New World. There were 102 passengers and the crew is estimated to be approximately 30 but the exact number is unknown.

This voyage has become an iconic story in the earliest annals of American history with its tragic story of death and of survival in the harshest New World winter environment. The culmination of the voyage in the signing of the Mayflower Compact is one of the greatest moments in the story of America, providing the basis of the nation's present form of democratic self-government and fundamental freedoms.

 

[Codger_64]

Except this ship depicted above is a whaler, not the Mayflower. The Mayflower appeared on the pile side of the 1977 issue.

ETA: The SC152 with the whalers and whaling ship was the first set issued in 1976.

 

[GASOUTHERNBOY]

I need to invist in a camrea. My Iphone camera just is not cutting it.

1982 Three Ducks Flying, 1984 Wild Boar Hunt, 1989 Two Ducks Swimming and I'm not sure who did the Don Prudhomme a.k.a The Snake

 

[GASOUTHERNBOY]

I just picked this up on Thursday and got it in Sunday.



I was able to pick this off of the bolster. Time to shine it up!

 

[Saddlebum]

THE FOX

THE COWBOY

THE PONY EXPRESS

THE EAGLE AND PINE CONES

THE BIGHORN RAMS

 

[Codger_64]

Nice! Handle the painted ones carefully. I have seen the hand-applied paint bleed over from handling and improper storage.

 

[Saddlebum]

Thanks for the tip! They reside in the display boxes in a cool dry place, after being wiped down with a dry rag. I recently turned away from a nice Schrade Walden 285UH in a brown hinged box because the photos revealed a rusty looking finger print that I didn't think I could polish out completely. I believe it was itched into the nickel bolster.

 

[Codger_64]

"The Eagle" was a specia lfactory order by the Tharpe Corporation. The pinecones were their logo. I guess they were event enhancement knives given as service awards to employees, or given to valued customers. Here is another one from Tharpe.

The art on this one however was rendered by J. Duffey, Giorgianni's sucessor (circa 1991?)

 

[Saddlebum]

You can see that part of my eagle is rubbed off. but I think the pine cones are the best part. They are so detailed and intricate. Your eagles are also very detailed too. I like it!! Thanks for the info..

 

[Codger_64]

I find the process and history of the scrimshaws interesting. Original art was produced in larger sizes and then reduced greatly for the imprinting dies. Too much detail or too thin lines produced less than satisfactory results when reduced to the size needed to fit the "canvas" of the knife scales. I am sure that it took a bit of experience and a keen eye to get it right. Interesting also that other cutleries made attempts to do the same thing but didn't meet with the long running market success that Schrade did with their art knives. All in all a pretty good run for something that evolved from advertising at of company logos and such. One can trace the evolution somewhat by looking at the "Office Knife" imprints over the previous decades as well as rope knives and fruit/sausage sampler knives.

 

[Saddlebum]

I find the process and history of the scrimshaws interesting. Original art was produced in larger sizes and then reduced greatly for the imprinting dies. Too much detail or too thin lines produced less than satisfactory results when reduced to the size needed to fit the "canvas" of the knife scales. I am sure that it took a bit of experience and a keen eye to get it right. Interesting also that other cutleries made attempts to do the same thing but didn't meet with the long running market success that Schrade did with their art knives. All in all a pretty good run for something that evolved from advertising at of company logos and such. One can trace the evolution somewhat by looking at the "Office Knife" imprints over the previous decades as well as rope knives and fruit/sausage sampler knives.

Very interesting train of thought and informative. Staying with that line of thinking, these would then be the "Neanderthals" of the evolutionary chain of scrimshaw knives. (borrowed picture)