What was the most popular and common Boy Scout knife in the 1940's,

[Catherine_Montana]

1950's, 1960's and on?

Traditional folding knives. Pocket knives.

Did the Buck 110 get the lead from 1963 (?) and on once it was created or did smaller folding knives carry on with their popularity?

I am really curious about the 40's and 50's due to my older brother and his Scouting years. Didn't most of those traditional knives come from Case, Schrade - NY or Camillus - NY?

Thank you!

Curious Cate

 

[Rich S]

ca early 1950's - Imperial Official Boy Scout knife.
Rich

 

[Stich2442]

Camillus mid 40's
Cattaraugus 30's-40's
Imperial late 40's - mid 80's
Pal early 40's pre pal were Remington
Ulster ( Dwight Divine & Son(s) 1923-1985
Western 1948

Schrade made scout style knives and but no official BSA knives except in 1926
Case first BSA 2005


Pete

 

[abcdef]

BSA knife q/a's always interesting.

 

[MerryMadMonk]

Cate, I don't know about popularity or production numbers, but here's some info on Official Boy Scouts Knives (extracted from Official Scout Blades, by Ed Holbrook):

New York Knife Company - 1911-1931
Remington - 1923-1939
Ulster (Dwight Divine & Sons) - 1923-1940
Landers, Frary & Clark - 1931-1939
Cattaraugus - 1933-1940
PAL Blade Co - 1940-1942
Camillus - 1946-2007
Imperial - 1949-2004
Ulster USA - 1963-1985 (after 1972, I'm not sure who made the Ulster brand, Camillus? Imperial?)
Schrade Walden - 1962-1972 (pen knife), re-introduced in 1992
Wenger - 1992-????

 

[tongueriver]

Schrade made scout style knives and but no official BSA knives except in 1926
Pete

Pete, what is this knife that you refer to? It is new to me>

 

[Buzzbait]

Ulster USA - 1963-1985 (after 1972, I'm not sure who made the Ulster brand, Camillus? Imperial?)

I believe that was Camillus. Same tooling as the Camillus 99 scout knife, if memory serves me.

 

[jackknife]

I think that in the 1950's, Camillus was the biggest knife company in the U.S.

They had geared up for WW2, and after the war, just kept on making all the pocket knives they had made for the military. Scouts, stockmen, jacks, all sorts of knife patterns. Camillus was so huge that they were known as "The Contract King" in the knife industry. They had a very large part of their production set aside for contracts of knife runs for other companies that included a lot of the other big names of the era. I think the bulk of the scout knives I saw when we were with Mr. Van was Camillus made.

I think it safe to say that in the 1950's, Camillus was the GM of knife production.

 

[Old Hunter]

Something like these (there have always been several models to choose from) OH:

 

[Buzzbait]

Here's my old carbon steel Ulster BSA

 

[kamagong]

Are you asking about Boy Scout knifes specifically, or do you mean to include all utility patterns?

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Are you asking about Boy Scout knifes specifically, or do you mean to include all utility patterns?

Mainly the ones that had the Boy Scout logo on them. Brand names especially when my only, older brother was in the Scouts in New York (40's) and in Maryland (1951 and on until he went into the Army.).

Plus what was the most common knife style that the Boy Scouts-Eagle Scouts used? Pocket knife, right?

Cate

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Something like these (there have always been several models to choose from) OH:

Sweet and thank you!

Cate

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Here's my old carbon steel Ulster BSA

Sweet and thank you too!

Cate

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Thanks to all of you who replied.

I appreciate it.

Cate

 

[Catherine_Montana]

Cate, I don't know about popularity or production numbers, but here's some info on Official Boy Scouts Knives (extracted from Official Scout Blades, by Ed Holbrook):

New York Knife Company - 1911-1931
Remington - 1923-1939
Ulster (Dwight Divine & Sons) - 1923-1940
Landers, Frary & Clark - 1931-1939
Cattaraugus - 1933-1940
PAL Blade Co - 1940-1942
Camillus - 1946-2007
Imperial - 1949-2004
Ulster USA - 1963-1985 (after 1972, I'm not sure who made the Ulster brand, Camillus? Imperial?)
Schrade Walden - 1962-1972 (pen knife), re-introduced in 1992
Wenger - 1992-????

Thank you for this too!

Cate

 

[Thomas Linton]

Cate, I don't know about popularity or production numbers, but here's some info on Official Boy Scouts Knives (extracted from Official Scout Blades, by Ed Holbrook):

New York Knife Company - 1911-1931
Remington - 1923-1939
Ulster (Dwight Divine & Sons) - 1923-1940
Landers, Frary & Clark - 1931-1939
Cattaraugus - 1933-1940
PAL Blade Co - 1940-1942
Camillus - 1946-2007
Imperial - 1949-2004
Ulster USA - 1963-1985 (after 1972, I'm not sure who made the Ulster brand, Camillus? Imperial?)
Schrade Walden - 1962-1972 (pen knife), re-introduced in 1992
Wenger - 1992-????

We now know that PAL bought the Remington knife business in January, 1941.

Tom Williams has supplied records showing that at least some Ulster U.S.A. Scout pattern knives were made by Camillus.

 

[brownshoe]

Small bird and trout fixed blade, stacked leather handle was official BSA and made by Western for years.

 

[afishhunter]

Something like these (there have always been several models to choose from) OH:

These are what I picture in (what's left of) my mind when I hear or think of "Boy Scout" or "Cub Scout" knives.
I know there was a fixed blade or three, as well, but I do not recall anyone in my troop (or Den) having one.

 

[Thomas Linton]

Small bird and trout fixed blade, stacked leather handle was official BSA and made by Western for years.

Nah. The Western Skinner was THE fixed-blade BSA knife. ePrey is lousy with them. We get two of them at the museum for every one of any other pattern. Every kid in my troop in the 50's bought one, only to find that the one you call "bird and trout" was far, far more useful.