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Can anyone tell me about this Colonial?
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 9:02 pm
by bhuber
This was my wife’s Grandfathers knife and was handed down to me by her Grandmother before she passed. I’ve had it sitting in a drawer until recently finding this forum.
Re: Can anyone tell me about this Colonial?
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2018 9:45 pm
by Tsar Bomba
A medium 3-spring stockman with a Turkish clip blade, likely a 1970s-80s purchase. Not really meant to be fancy collectibles but definitely more of a working man's knife with excellent Colonial steel. We've scared up some history on those knives over the years in the forum. I've been targeting clean examples of Colonials/rebranded knives with those same synthetic stag handles as your grandfather's.
This particular thread explores the shared heritage of Sharp-branded knives that were sold in K-Mart. You'll see a version of the same knife in its original packaging here:
viewtopic.php?t=51203
This one shows a range of Colonial-made Sabre USA knives using the sawcut handles instead of the "fake stag" composition:
viewtopic.php?f=87&t=33434&p=587016&p587016
For my part, here are a couple of my posts (including photos) about these knives and similar ones:
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44545&p=679912#p679912
viewtopic.php?f=87&t=32528&p=546893&hil ... al#p546893
Your knife should be a treasured part of your collection because of your grandfather's ownership and all the stories it can probably tell. Happy hunting!