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Very Sweet Knife! 🤠:thumbsup:
 
Another 1960's crown logo Craftsman " tie clip " knife made by imperial.
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I scored my first on Ebay a few years ago but sadly I lost it in December of 2020 the day I took my best friends remains to the vet to be sent off for cremation.
I really loved the knife, imperial did quite a good job on these all things considered.
They may be tiny, but they're a real functional knife, my last had great W&T and they take a great edge like any carbon steel imperial.
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Another 1960's crown logo Craftsman " tie clip " knife made by imperial.
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I scored my first on Ebay a few years ago but sadly I lost it in December of 2020 the day I took my best friends remains to the vet to be sent off for cremation.
I really loved the knife, imperial did quite a good job on these all things considered.
They may be tiny, but they're a real functional knife, my last had great W&T and they take a great edge like any carbon steel imperial.
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I don't think I've seen one of those, only the rectangular lobster tie clips, of which I have a few.
 
I don't think I've seen one of those, only the rectangular lobster tie clips, of which I have a few.
I've searched quite a bit and turned up a kind of ugly gold tone version with a hologram Craftsman logo, but no other versions.
Theres a bigger one with a little bail on the end, but I assume that one's a watch fob and not a tie clip.


Since the blades were already being made for their little keychain knife, maybe it wasn't a hard to make a tie clip version of it exclusively for Craftsman ?
 
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I've searched quite a bit and turned up a kind of ugly gold tone version with a hologram Craftsman logo, but no other versions.
Theres a bigger one with a little bail on the end, but I assume that one's a watch fob and not a tie clip.


Since the blades were already being made for their little keychain knife, maybe it wasn't a hard to make a tie clip version of it exclusively for Craftsman ?
Sorry, I meant I've never seen that shape of knife with a clip on it.
Your mention of "bail" reminded me I was mistaken.
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Sorry, I meant I've never seen that shape of knife with a clip on it.
Your mention of "bail" reminded me I was mistaken.
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I understood you, I suppose I was just droning on a bit about the tiny version I have coming.

Btw that other version I mentioned is apparently an in between size

Heres a picture I found online.
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The one with the bail and the tiny keychain version the little Craftsman is based off of.
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It's listed as SS on the dealers website and CS in their catalog , but the stock photo shows the right tang stamp so I'm hopeful that it does prove to be CS.

I don't know what's going on, there are 7 25-1/2 offerings on this dealers site with tang stamps pictured that don't match the descriptions.
A few of them are typical of SS offerings just as they're listed, but the tang stamps pictured depict otherwise.
 
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I just scored this nice vintage drop point hunter on Ebay.
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I first saw one on Ebay about a year ago with no info and would take notice whenever I saw one pop up, I've been occasionally looking for info but it wasn't until today that I decided to ask here on BF's and finally get all the info I could ever want.

They were made by Ichiro Hattori in Japan starting in the 70's , and imported by SHARP, Precise Deeeslayer, Beretta USA, and K-Mart as this M☆ version I have purchased.
Later offered by Hattori themselves as the H109 until I'm not sure how recently.

The steel in unconfirmed, but definitely something I should have no trouble sharpening.
 
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