Thrift store vintage SCHRADE....

pmek5.... I agree . This kind of find reignites the hunt ! Now I just want to get out
and keep digging. :D

This does show that they are still out there !

Charles
 
I'm also thinking that the covers are a composite material. But they may have been manually jigged, which is pretty cool in my book.
 
afishhunter said:
I thought George Schrade started making automatics/switchblades under the 'Schrade' brand some time in the 1880's or 1890's.
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That would have been under his company Press Button Knife Co started in the 1892-93 timeframe. All sold to Walden Knife Co in 1904.

That's what is in Levine's. I knew/know very little of this off the top of my head.
 
Sirs,
I have deep searched the web and this site... have not found a knife like this
one. Anybody else holding one ?

Charles
 
Sirs...

After interrogating the U.S. Patent Office to see if I could locate
this blade (Pat. Pending), I found this "earlier" (Mar. 1892...filed Dec. 1891))
knife offering by George Schrade. Of all of his numerous patents (that I reviewed)
this one is closest (not identical) to my blade. My observation
is that after this "era" of his patents the knives he offered became much more
complex / engineered in design . (Push buttons, etc.). Point being , that
by the 1920's his "inventions" were much more sophisticated than my blade.

So, I'm wondering if this knife may be earlier in design than what has
been offered in this discussion ?

Point of interest ...this patent was prior to his sojourn to Germany (Solingen)
and, of interest lists his ? Papa (Gottlieb) as the assignee ... not the two brothers (he later
fell out with). Based on patents in the Patent Office... George was the
inventive brother...no doubt.

Anyway,.... probably will never know the actual born on date of my find but
the search has been enjoyable.

Charles
http://www.collectors-of-schrades-r.us/patents/000470605.pdf
 
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