What's your latest Schrade? END DATE 8/12

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Parker Frost additions.
Johnny Muskrat
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Nice finds Pygmallion, they're in great condition!

Here's a mighty unusual one, it's a three spring four "bladed" gents knife with nickel silver handles. Normal Schrade Cut. Co. stamp on three blades but the handle has the incredibly ellusive Germany tang stamp! Only the second I've seen. Seems that it took some time before production of scissors was started over here due to the complex nature of their fabrication and construction, so Schrade continued to have scissors made in Germany, even after blade and knife manufacture was ramped up here. No idea how long this went on, but I'd venture sometime in the early teens.

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Eric
 
I had a few more knives come in yesterday. Here is a 124UH.
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And a Parker Frost Lockback Mustang
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And a Parker Frost 3 blade Fox
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Pyg - Do the black sawcuts from have the Schrade stamp on the backside? I had not seen this series with this handle, only the bone. Don't you just love the 124UH? Great pattern huh?

Eric - The German stamping, what year(s) would this have been used, and are there any other patterns to your knowledge with this scissors/stamp?
 
I had that "Germany" knife pegged on my watch list, but was asleep at the switch! I'm glad one of the Goodfellas got it!! Very nice score, Eric!
My condolences Roland, for you and for me!:p

Nice group Pygmalion! The sheer volume of Schrades headed in your direction is creating a vortex and disturbing the ether!!:D

Here are two very recently purchased and received. I already have a D-E, but this one is better! It's got ink all over the back of the blade, so I'll scan it after I clean it up!;)
The M & G is likely an Ulster-made, so part of the family.
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Wow Charlie, that's some fantastic DE!! Love the "Ulster" too, think I've just about drooled out on that one!

No problem on the bidding Roland, I still think it went mighty cheap considering the tang and the fact that it's a mighty unusual pattern, haven't been able to find it in the cat's, and I'm beginning to think it was dropped before the 1926 catalog came out. I'll try to get some more pics up this weekend, having problems with my scanner software, so I'll use the 'ol camera instead.

Hal, I'm not ceratin of the dates on those tangs, I know they used the Germany tang initially in 1904 until they could get their own manufacturing going, but have no idea how long it went on, although judging bythe scarcity of those examples I doubt they went for more than a few years. There were a fairly decent number of patterns, I've seen a bone handled lobster with that tang, and Sargent's shows a serpentine "moose" as well.

Glad I got it when I did, I'm in another dry spell in the cash flow department!

Eric
 
Cutlery imports to the U.S. from Germany were blockaded by England in early summer of 1915, thus Camillus/Adolph Kastor & Bros. (and almost all other cutleries) had to either produce previously imported patterns domesticly, or drop them altogether until after the end of the war.
 
thawk said:
Pyg - Do the black sawcuts from have the Schrade stamp on the backside?
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The only other markings I could find on any of the knives is the stamp on the other side of the master blade that has the year 1978, a dash, and a 1 or 2 digit number. For instance, the Johnny Muskrat knife has "1978-7" stamped on it.

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Does anyone know if the markings "1978-#" were exclusively Schrade's markings for Parker Frost, or did the other makers use them as well when making knives for Parker Frost?
 
There's a story behind how those P-F Schrades came to be marked with both company names. it's in an old Codger post here somewhere. the "1978" refers to the year, so only these knives.
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rprocter said:
There's a story behind how those P-F Schrades came to be marked with both company names. it's in an old Codger post here somewhere. the "1978" refers to the year, so only these knives.
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I did find that story. It was actually a post by Tennknifeman, Mr. Voyles. I am not sure if Schrade was the only knife maker to use this marking system for Parker Frost, since many makers made knives for Parker Frost.
 
I've looked at hundreds of Parker-Frost, Parker Edwards, Parker and Frost knives of this vintage on ebay and these are the only ones i have seen marked this way. the rest don't have a year stamp.
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This 4" knife is listed in the Schade Cutlery Co. Cat. E 1936 supplement as Greenskeeper's knife G7324W and has a Spearpoint blade with "Greenskeeper"s Pride" etch.
1938 supplement shows this knife with a Sheepsfoot master, etched "Gardener's Friend", G7324 1/2W.
mine shows a lot of blade loss but still has good action and zero play. I think this is the Spearpoint version.
It's a stoutly built solid knife, don't let the Imitation Ivory handles fool you.

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roland
 
Here's an unused Mighty Angler, 6" Folder. the seller had it listed as a "MAG Knife" which is likely why i got it much less than it's value.

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good knife !
roland
 
Here's a really nice older Schrade/Walden 34OT with a Craftsman 9513 etch and "34OT" on the pile side tang. I don't think i've seen one marked this way before.

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any comments Codger ?
roland
 
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This is an exceptionally nice Schrade. shows that there never was any slip in Quality.

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ebay, nicely listed for 7 days. only 1 bidder, so it was a 'steal', but i do feel badly for the seller in instances like this.
roland
 
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