My latest Schrade

[stockman]

Jerry that is a nice knife, looks like my Wester Bros USA. Mine is carbon and has a punch, and older bone. I think.

Harold

[jxr1197]

My latest Schrade:

[tongueriver]

And a good wooden hanger!

[jxr1197]

And a good wooden hanger!

lol - nothing but the best for my Schrade's

[Vit_213]

Recently I got an interesting Imperial scout-type knife. Allsteel, closed 3.7".
Can you help me identify and date it? Any information is interesting.

[bestgear]

Good Day Vitaly....checkout this thread: viewtopic.php?f=64&t=55273&p=620948&hil ... al#p619620

[Vit_213]

Hi Tom!
This is interesting information, but I still have questions about dating and the meaning of the letters "RX" .

[bestgear]

RX (usually written ℞) is a common abbreviation for medical prescriptions.

[Vit_213]

Many thanks!
So it's an "apothecary knife", not an advertising knife. Cool!

[kootenay joe]

It likely was a knife given by a pharmaceutical rep to pharmacists.
kj

[Mustanger]

Your knife is obviously a spin-off of a military Demo knife. Because of the screwdriver on your knife it dates to sometime after 1974 when military specs did away with the pin punch that you see on my Ulster knife in the picture. These types of knives began production in the 1940s by military contract. Imperial was involved with the first production through a collaboration with Ulster called Kingston to make knives for the military during WWII. Curious how this knife would be useful to a pharmacist.

[jxr1197]

It likely was a knife given by a pharmaceutical rep to pharmacists.
kj

Both sides of the knife are engraved leaving no room for the money shot and big pharma never misses a branding opportunity. None of these Imperial 'apothecary knives' have Diflucan or Viagra on them. Aside from that they generally use much, much cheaper knives (I collect them). I was also trying to figure out why these were made. At first I thought medical corps but the army would never pay for frivolous engraving. Maybe a SFO for one of the big chains? CVS, Walgreems, etc?

[Mustanger]

In my previous post I messed up trying to get an idea of a date for your knife by using references to military knives. Your knife is a civilian spin-off of the Demo knife and some kind of SFO. Now that I'm awake I looked into the tang stamp as a way of getting an idea of the time frame when your knife was made. I'm not a huge Imperial knife guy but I came up with this list of tang stamps and dates from The Official Price Guide to Collector Knives XV. Your knife must be later than 1988, after they stopped stamping PROV. RI. on the tang. And you have some history of the pattern and how it came to be.

[Vit_213]

I propose to continue the discussion of this knife in the relevant topic - viewtopic.php?f=64&t=55273

[Mustanger]

Added to my herd of Ulsters. A #55 and a #114 pattern for Craftsman. Craftsman 9549.

[deltaboy]

Grabbed another really pocket worn 8OT Stockman!

[LanG]

Love the old bone jacks. Found this one at auction (bullet not included)-

[Tsar Bomba]

Incredible bone on that jack, Lan. Excellent find!

[espn77]

Very nice Lan, your picture taking is looking good. Nice knife.

[LanG]

Thank you Tony and Keith. I'm enjoying my new addiction!

[deltaboy]

Got another 34OT Stockman!

[truck]

Here's a recent pawn shop score, a near mint 206.

[deltaboy]

Here's a recent pawn shop score, a near mint 206.

Good find!

[knifegnome]

Just got the box to go with the knife.

[ea42]

Oh man that's nice, box and knife!! Congrats on two incredible finds! Looks like the knife was never used

Eric