Imperial Frontier Knives

By: Capt. Rob

Many people don't realise the connection between Schrade knives and Imperial knives. Schrade Cut co. was bought out by Albert Baer in 1946 and joined by his brother Albert Baer. They also owned Imperial Knife co. and Ulster. After the 1973 name change from Schrade walden To Schrade USA, in 1973 there were many old open stock knives droped from Schrades Production and new tooling was instaled at the Schrade plant in Ellington N.Y. The Schrade Saga is a very long connect the dots puzzel. Being businessmen rather than just getting rid of the old tooling for the discontined models. They sent it to the Imperial R.I. plant and started producing the Frontier knives and other higher quality knives than in previous years. You see many schrade blade paterns in the knives produced between 1975 and 1985 when they merged the 2 companys at the Ellington plant and discontinued the better knives like the Frontier series. Here is a catilogue from the original 1975 Frontier line. this is a salesmas catilogue that was with a salesmans sample in my collection.

Courtesy of Capt. Rob. Thanks!