The Sunday Picture Show (September 4, 2022)

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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, September 4th, 1886 - The (final) Surrender of Geronimo
This date will require a bit of explanation. If you look at the Buck Cetrificate below it gives a year of 1883, not 1886. I have come to the conclusion that the Certificate date is an error and should have read 1886-1986. I will explain my reasoning in another post below. 1886 was the final surrender to General Nelson Miles. This marked the formal ending of the Indian wars. Geronimo spent the rest of his life as a guest of the US Army, his official status was as a prisoner of war until his death in 1909 at the age of 80.
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(not my picture, borrowed from the internet, if someone with the certificate could give me a better squared up image for my file I would be grateful)

Buck made 2 different Geronimo knives and they can both be found on the 1987 Special Projects list. The knife commemorates the 100th Anniversary of the surrender of Geronimo. Both knives have the same blade etching which was done by Aurum Etchings of Texas. The guards and handles differ. Both are listed as having a walnut box. The model 975 is one of 2,000 made for Historic Providence Mint. It has a slab Stag handle. Others I have seen have a shield inlayed on the Stag, you can faintly see it in the image above. My knife does not have the inlay. The SP list says they were not serialized. The second knife, the model 976 is rarer as only 250 were made for Sharper Image. It has the same gold etched blade image but with a round Ironwood handle instead of slab Stag. The backside of the blade has a black acid etch "1 of 250". The SP list say the 976 was Stag also but mine is Ironwood. If any of you have the 976, is your handle Ironwood or Stag?
Jump to post #3 for more information and explanation of dates.
addendum: I now also have a round handled 976 with a stag handle in my collection.

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I've puzzled quite a bit over the 1883 date on the certificate and can't think of a reason for it. I reviewed many images and I think I found the two that were the basis for the gold etched images on the Geronimo blade. Interestingly both images were from a negotiation with General Crook in March of 1886. This makes me wonder if Buck or someone got the certificate date wrong, 1883 vs 1886. This fits with the knives being on the 1987 SP list. The 100th Anniversary really being 1886 - 1986.

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Hello Everyone, Today I have an 110 converted into an AUTO by Michael Prater it is a Prototype that says the maker and a horse head and Proto on the right side of the blade. The blade is mirror polished and the backspring is carved. It also says Painted Pony on the blade, there were Harley Davidson scribed in the MOP in the handles. I think this is one of the nicest AUTO knives that I have. I have a few more that I might show.


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Thanks Roger for another Sunday Morning Picture Show and interesting history. In keeping with the Native American theme, a picture of my wife's Buck Custom Dave Yellowhorse 112, and a set of cavalry spurs that belonged to her relative that was in the Cavalry

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DeSotoSky said:
I''ve puzzled quite a bit over the 1883 date on the certificate and can't think of a reason for it. I reviewed many images and I think I found the two that were the basis for the gold etched images on the Geronimo blade. Interestingly both images were from a negotiation with General Crook in March of 1886. This makes me wonder if Buck or someone got the certificate date wrong, 1883 vs 1886. This fits with the knives being on the 1987 SP list. The 100th Anniversary really being 1886 - 1986.

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Now it is so simple to take a photo anywhere, any time.
Back in those days it must have been quite a job to have.
Getting al the Indians in line, in peace etc etc.
I'm always fascinated by these scares kind of old photo's.

Thanks for posting !
 
jb4570 said:
Thank you Roger et al, for another fantastic SPS!
Roger your Geronimo 976 is the first one I have seen in Ironwood and not stag (interesting). I also do not have any of the paperwork for these knives.
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Dang you !!! Now I have to find one in Stag. They've become quite a bit less affordable since I purchased mine.
Interesting that I came up with 2 oddballs, 975 without the shield and the 976 in Ironwood instead of Stag.

edit: I just noticed, my 976 guard is curved, yours is straight like the 975... ???
I'm beginning to wonder if mine is actually a buildout from an overrun of blades.
Niether of mine came with the listed Walnut boxes. I missed out all around. :(
 
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