Again, the knife and the art on it are correct. The clues lie in the box, sheath, and paperwork.
First, the box. While it may well have been intended to contain a Scrimshaw knife, examples of this box design have shown that they were used almost exclusively for knives intended for the European market. The box design appeared circa 1989-91. The logo on the box tells us that it was made post 1989.
Second, the paper. Note the SCHRADE TOUGH logo. That first appeared circa 1995.
Third the sheath bears the last logo design with the cutler emblem. That logo is post 1984.
The SC507 Bighorn Sheep which I pointed out on the collector's archive site, is from the 1982
Scrimshaw Of The Great American Outdoors set. At that time, Albert Baer had not yet bought all of the other shares of Imperial stock from the Mirando's and other stockholders, and Schrade was still Schrade Cutlery Corporation, not Imperial Schrade.
The seller (or the previous owner if not the seller) put together the knife, sheath, box and papers to make this lone unboxed knife complete and appear to be NIB, but failed to do their homework. To the wary collector, it is like a '67 corvette with '75 Impalla wheels, a '69 corvair engine, and an interior from a late model Chevette.
Now. there is nothing wrong with buying the subject knife, just don't pay the MIB price for it, and toss the unassociated bits into a box to match up with the correct knives.
Codger
This is the correct boxed knife.
