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Codger_64

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I remember as a younger person, a cartoonish Saturday morning spot called "Fractured Fairytales". I might call this listing "Fractured Cutlery History".

In 1940 Ulster came up with the Old Timer name for knives, they made these knives for awhile and in fact patented that name. Then they sold them to a tobacco company for some off rate who had thier customers send in the tops off the tobacco cans for the knives. Then Schrade made Ulster an offer for the patent and Ulster sold the patent to Schrade so for the last 70 years Schrade has been selling Old Timer Knives to thier customers.They have sold these knives in numbers of the millions. So this one is an 3 1/2 inch stock knife, Ulster, that came with the purchase of tobacco, fairly rare and very scarce. It is in very good condition and it can be a part of your collection. Check it out.
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PS: If any of you fail to get the humor of this, I'll post the real history tomorrow. In the meantime...the chuckle is on me...and irving. :p
 
The only thing he got right is that they sold the knives (Old Timers that is) in the millions:D
 
Peebay needs Fiction , Non-fiction and Si -Fi sectons at least its not a 1/10 or I might have jumped on it .
 
Yeah - you sure can learn a lot from eBay. For instance, I just learned that Schrade only made 100 of the 100th Anniversary 34OT's!
 
I got me four of those 1940 Old Timmer knifes. They all got the derlin handles except one thats got the sandbar stag.
 
Were they all "cleaned to mint?" I'll bet they were nice and shinny. I hope they put plenty of apostrophes in the ad.
 
just as an aside it was on the "Rocky and Bullwinkle Show" which came on every day. ah the life of an obsessive.

Codger_64 said:
I remember as a younger person, a cartoonish Saturday morning spot called "Fractured Fairytales". I might call this listing "Fractured Cutlery History".



:D

PS: If any of you fail to get the humor of this, I'll post the real history tomorrow. In the meantime...the chuckle is on me...and irving. :p
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Used to do this with my mates as a kid and a few other .
Feels like yesterday .:)



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thats the scary part-yesterday. check it out on youtube-i introduced my sons to "the phantom raspberry blower of olde london town" i cacked myself laughing.brilliance.
 
was looking at the bay and noticed a knife there plainly states Parker Frost on blade but seller described it as a Schrade Walden. ask him about this and his reply was:

"Schrade Walden made these knives and others for Parker Frost in the 1970s era. Parker Frost did not have a manufacturing plant, and it is common knowledge that Schrade Walden made most of their knives.
Thanks,
Bill"

was wondering if this is true? or do we have a "new" history?
 
delmas2nd said:
was looking at the bay and noticed a knife there plainly states Parker Frost on blade but seller described it as a Schrade Walden. ask him about this and his reply was:

"Schrade Walden made these knives and others for Parker Frost in the 1970s era. Parker Frost did not have a manufacturing plant, and it is common knowledge that Schrade Walden made most of their knives.
Thanks,
Bill"

was wondering if this is true? or do we have a "new" history?
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Schrade did make some, but not all of the Parker Frost knives. Parker Frost was pissed when a certain series of knives came out and found they had stamped Schrade on them. There is a real nice post on this from a while back by Bruce Voyles. I'll try to dig it up.
 
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