SHOW YOUR NEW (TO YOU) ROBESON

The first Robeson knives were imported by Millard Robeson from England and Germany exclusively. This continued from 1979 until 1896 when Robeson began manufacturing knives in the United States. Since inception, the company has gone through several reorganizations & eventually ended up as a Queen Cutlery brand.
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JUST GOT THIS IN.....NEW TO ME! :mrgreen:

arched- ROBESON over USA over CUTLERY

only marking is tang stamp on main NO pattern number on back
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You ever get an approx. date on that beaut. Jbug?
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Junebug I like that knife, I'm guessing with the arch over usa 1917-1939, no pattern# probably there is a 542 somewhere in there. I really like those robeson knives.
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thanks fellas!
1917-39 is what i was thinkin too ::nod:: .....from charlies site i got linked to ::tu::
that's awesome how he has all those tang pix 8) 8)
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I suspect it's circa WWII and possibly an issued knife.

Forget the dating on tang stamps on this one.

It should have bone handles, but has rough black instead.

Pattern number would have been 622214. No pattern number speaks for WWII issue as well.

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I just bought this one off Ebay. See the interesting details in The Robeson Cutlery Co thread in Knife Lore.

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AWESOME STORY! GREAT IT WENT TO YOU SIR! 8) 8)

THAT KNIFE IS AWESOME!!!! I LOVE A SCREWDRIVER BLADE ::tu::
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Two very nice knives on this thread. Congrats to both of you Robeson owners. ::tu::
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Not brand new, but fairly new to me.
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Well, the Robeson 622806 3 5/8" EO Electrician's Jack arrived today.

This knife is better than I thought. Better than suggested by the auction photos. In fact, it's as nice as any knife I own and I own some very nice Robesons.

It snaps like a bear trap. The blades are perfectly centered between the center and outer liners. The original Robeson glaze finish is near perfect. This knife has not been cleaned in any way. It's very close to a "factory fresh" knife. The backsprings look like mirrors. The brown bone handles are not cracked or chipped. It has never been used and appears to have never been carried.

Now, the kicker. In my post in the Knife Lore forum, I referenced a similar knife that sold on Ebay a few years ago for several hundred dollars. Actually, it sold for $354.00 plus shipping.

Here is the post I made to AAPK re' that knife with some of its auction photos:

http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kni ... 35&t=22846

I have compared that knife to the one I just received.

They are the very same knife. ::tu::

I just paid less than half what the knife sold for previously to get something I was outbid on in the original auction. ::ds::

What a deal on a superlative piece of utilitarian pocket cutlery.

0078, that is a sweet old knife. Looks like an 088 pattern.

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congrats ,charlie ::tu::
it made it HOME......finally ::nod:: 8)
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Thanks JuneBug.

I'm just really, really pleased how this has worked out.

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I have a few, and they are all new to me as I just started
I am calling it dog leg or reverse dogleg?
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got this pocketeze, seems old and in good shape?
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Mickey, notice your little dog-leg has no handle pins. That's why it has the patent stamp. Robeson came up with a method of handle attachment that eliminated the pins.

PocketEze is nice too.

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Thanks Charlie, I am doing all right with my new collection, thanks to all you folks and the books and web sites
I got Tom's new book too
hope to be able to refine my collection with some knives like the one you have on this thread
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http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kni ... 93&t=38968
I started a new thread in Robeson collectors forum with this wood Robey
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got this knife for $30 because it is in great shape, blades like new with great snap, a little 'stiff' or is that a good 'tight' feeling?
no half stops? was it made to have half stops or some knives are made not to have half stops?
the tang stamp tells me 1940-1964, which would be the Emerson Case years, and known as good knives
the manufactors #6 says it is real bone, red bone or strawberry bone?
3 3/8 tear drop jack right?
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more research and I notice this; 6 = Genuine Bone, Jigged Rough Black Plastic, Jigged Delrin Imitation Bone
so it may not be bone, but I think it may be and I think it is a swell end jack not a teardrop jack
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Genuine strawberry bone on that one, Mickey.

There's a larger version of that as the 056.

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Mickey , can you show a pic with the blades open ?
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not the best shooting at night, but here you go, Gino
I have not touched the blades, may gently polish them?
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Thanks Mickey, that's a great looking Robeson. I have always been fond of them. ;)
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here is another red Robe, 622064
there is some blade loss, not much, they are shaped like lambs foot or thin wharncliffe, not pen/spear, maybe there is more blade loss than i thought, let me take a photo of full blades.
very good walk and talk, 2 3/4 senator (pen) knife
looks like the handle material (bone?) peeled,flaked,split?
before, during or after manufacture ?
I guess real bone , flaked during the making, in the 50's, [ 40-64]
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junebug wrote:JUST GOT THIS IN.....NEW TO ME! :mrgreen:

arched- ROBESON over USA over CUTLERY

only marking is tang stamp on main NO pattern number on back
steel bolsters and pins
jigged black scales
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SHARPENED but not short......SNAPPY ALL BLADES!

Haven't really got into buying older knives yet, just new, but possibly saw basicly the same as this knife in a local Pawn Shop and they had 39.99 on the tag. Is that a decent price if it is the same as this????? Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer this question!!!!
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