They laid down some serious money over the years with Schrade having SFO knives, usually nice ones, made in small quantities with their pine cone logo etched, added to a scrimshaw stamp, or as in this case and others, with an antiqued bronze coined shield. Nice!
The world according to Tharpe..wasn't that a Robyn Williams movie?? I have a Mint 160OT Mountain Lion with exactly the same pine cone shield on wood scale. What exactly is Tharpe? My 160OT is depicted on pages 9 & 10 of 15 on my Corner on Larry's site if anyone is interested and can tell me what it all means. Thanks & Hoo Roo.
Found them on the web, They are now Tharpe Robbins, check out the image on the "about us" logo from the link below, the pine cone just as labelled on the knives.
Took me a while to take pics, but here's mine. (Trying to improve my picture taking, and a couple of hours earlier without the flash they would have been even better... :grumpy
Anyway, bought this new sometime in 1988 or maybe 1989-90? My memory is going... Been sitting in the safe all this time. Had a stag-like one in jigged Delrin but I sold it at the time and bought this one instead:
Only other Schrades I have are a small 3 bladed Old Timer in pretty bad shape my late Father-in-Law left me, and a NIB Imperial Schrade M7S survival knife from 1993. I figured you guys would appreciate this one.
I was going through some knives this afternoon. I have two 33OT. Both NIB. One in the Tan/Black box, the other an older Brown Box with the felt covered liner.
Noticed some variations. Initially, the older one with a SCHRADE/NY USA from the Brown Box, does not have a cutout for the pen blade. Also noticed different sized nicks, which is common. I also noticed the clip blade on the older one was 1/16" longer. 2 9/16" vs 2 1/2"
So I pulled out a couple of 34OT's for comparison, a SCHRADE NY and a SCHRADE Walden, they were both the same longer length.
The SCHRADE Walden is a sweet one. It has milled liners. I'm not sure what that kind of back spring is termed ??? When I bought it, it wasn't advertised as such. A nice bonus.
Imperial-Schrade knives from the Parker 13 Colonies set
Parker Bison (Schrade made 1978) and the stag canoe was English made by Rodgers-Wostenholm during the time Schrade owned it (Not USA made so does that count for this forum?)
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