What Makes a Good, Traditional Barlow?

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Picked up this interesting old Russell barlow, typical well worn, tip needs to be reprofiled, saw cut covers are in nice used condition, good snap and no play. What is interesting is it's a straight line tang stamp that has been overstamped with the later arched tang stamp. Some say that tang stamp was applied when knife was sent in for Russell's refurbish program, however that would usually be a blade replacement which should only have the arched stamp.
I've handled a fair amount of Russell barlows and this is the first I've seen with double stamp. Wonder if this one only received new covers.


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Augie said:
Picked up this interesting old Russell barlow, typical well worn, tip needs to be reprofiled, saw cut covers are in nice used condition, good snap and no play. What is interesting is it's a straight line tang stamp that has been overstamped with the later arched tang stamp. Some say that tang stamp was applied when knife was sent in for Russell's refurbish program, however that would usually be a blade replacement which should only have the arched stamp.
I've handled a fair amount of Russell barlows and this is the first I've seen with double stamp. Wonder if this one only received new covers.


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Thank you for posting this Augie Augie ! Perfect timing for me as I just recently picked up a Russell also, but I'm not a 100% sure if this is authentic because of 'one' feature. Albeit the blade had been polished in the past, the steel pins, location of the center pin and the pivot pin, tang stamp, all 'looks' to be authentic but that 'fourth' pin on the front of the handle makes me wonder as I haven't seen one (after searching around on the net) with the fourth handle pin...

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euroken said:
Thank you for posting this Augie Augie ! Perfect timing for me as I just recently picked up a Russell also, but I'm not a 100% sure if this is authentic because of 'one' feature. Albeit the blade had been polished in the past, the steel pins, location of the center pin and the pivot pin, tang stamp, all 'looks' to be authentic but that 'fourth' pin on the front of the handle makes me wonder as I haven't seen one (after searching around on the net) with the fourth handle pin...

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I would say it has definitely been worked, the pins are not correct and the obvious one too many. The tang stamp looks ok though. I would have liked to have seen it before it was cleaned, you can get an idea of age from an uncleaned knife.
 
Thank you! Yeah, I purchased it this way. It 'appeared' to be genuine but I had an instant FOMO when the knife was listed. 😆
 
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euroken said:
Thank you for posting this Augie Augie ! Perfect timing for me as I just recently picked up a Russell also, but I'm not a 100% sure if this is authentic because of 'one' feature. Albeit the blade had been polished in the past, the steel pins, location of the center pin and the pivot pin, tang stamp, all 'looks' to be authentic but that 'fourth' pin on the front of the handle makes me wonder as I haven't seen one (after searching around on the net) with the fourth handle pin...

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It appears to me that you may have a Curved Frame Russell and I do not know if they had a 4th pin or not .

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