DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. Above all, enjoy the show. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
This day in History January 16, 1919. The 18th Ammendment is ratified which marks the beginning of a 14 year period of prohibition in America... a great failure.
"Although consumption of alcohol fell at the beginning of Prohibition, it subsequently increased. Alcohol became more dangerous to consume; crime increased and became “organized”; the court and prison systems were stretched to the breaking point; and corruption of public officials was rampant. No measurable gains were made in productivity or reduced absenteeism. Prohibition removed a significant source of tax revenue and greatly increased government spending. It led many drinkers to switch to opium, marijuana, patent medicines, cocaine, and other dangerous substances that they would have been unlikely to encounter in the absence of Prohibition" CATO Institute
In St Louis, no company is more closely associated with beer than Anheuser Busch and their Budweiser branding. In the mid-1800's Adolphus Busch joined with his father-in-law Eberhard Anheuser to form the beginnings of a multi-generational brewing empire. AB was an early adopter of pasteurization and refrigerated shipping which allowed them to successfully expand to national markets. Family control of the brewing empire came to an end in 2008 with the $52 billion hostile takeover by InBev. At the time of the takeover AB's US market share was 49%. Buck has made quite a few knives with Budwiser logos etc. This 110 gold etch of the founder Adolphus dates to 1992. It can be found on the 1992 SP list, a run of 1,876. The handle is ebony. The last Aurum etches for Buck were in 1989 at which time the process was set up in-house so pretty sure this etch would have been by Buck.
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