prince Albert Ulster knife offer

[cattaraugus57]

Neat old Prince Albert can with an Ulster Old Timer knife offer,Only $2.00 each with 5 wrappers from a pocket tin.
remember these?
The old prince wasn't alone in that can after all! He had an Ulster with him...

[ozzie marie]

catt,

I love that Tin

Here's another offer from R.J. Reynolds for a "Famous Ulster Old Timer Whittler"

Keith

[cattaraugus57]

Thanks ozzie, nice matchbook cover too.
It's funny, the lady I bought that from assumed I wanted it for the "Price Albert" part,but I had to inform her of the truth!

[philco]

Nice find Catt man.

Have you started tracking down the knives from that offer yet? ...........You know you're gonna have to now, don't you?

Happy hunting.

Phil

[cattaraugus57]

thanks Philco! I haven't started yet...but like you said
I know I will!
It's a sickness ! but a good one....

[RobesonsRme.com]

I think there's at least one of them on Ebay now. Just search for "Ulster" under Folding Knives.
Believe I saw an Ulster four blade scout/utility recently.
Charlie Noyes

[RobesonsRme.com]

Here's one of the three, the barlow, on Ebay.
Charlie Noyes

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWAX:IT

[cattaraugus57]

o boy here we go!....thanks Charlie!

[coffeecup]

Cattaraugus57, I've got a couple of the camp knives--they're fairly easy to find. (OK, I've got four or five, including two or three that are too nice for me to hand over to my scouts. That doesn't mean I collect scout knives Philco, it just means I have no self control. Somebody help me, I have a knife problem . . . ) Fairly good workers, though I've come to prefer a Western or a WWII-vintage engineers knife. The most common flaw seems to be missing bails on otherwise near-mint specimens.

The stock knife is a bit harder to find in good condition, but working specimens are fairly easy to locate. A lot of the one's I've run across are tipped; I suspect they were given to kids who abused the heck out of them.

Good luck in your search!
Jim

[RobesonsRme.com]

There's a stockman on Ebay right now, too, but it's badly used, grey in color and not worthy of Catt57.
Charlie Noyes

[orvet]

Before I collected knives I collected tobacco tins.
One thing a tin collector looks for is variations in the tins, just like knife collectors look for variations in knives.

So far I have only found two different printings of the Prince Albert/Ulster knife offer.
The back of both tins are the same, but the fronts are different.

Dale

[thawk]

It is a fun set to chase. The camper is the hardest one to find.



There is also a can with the same offer from Imperial.

[Bob W.]

Of the four items required to make a set, the can seems to be the most affordable and common.

I lucked out and bought my set from the factory collection:

[thawk]

Bob: You have unique handles on the camper knife. Usually they are the browner delrin. Yours looks the same color as the Barlow. Tighter jigging pattern too.

[Bob W.]

Not sure if the jigging is different, or the scanner reflections are causing an optical allusion.

The Delrin is very dark though, like a black-brown. Along the edge of the bolster it lightens to a dark brown.

[stockman]

The hardest for me to find was the papers needed to get the knives. I think I still have two
papers. If anyone needs a can "PM" me.

[robinetn]

Let me make the "chase" a little harder . Believe it or not , there is also a 2 blade stockman (also an Ulster). I didn't believe it when an old timer collector asked me to find him one but 4 years later I found one in near mint condition and one in poor shape . I haven't seen one since , but I'm still looking .

[Bob W.]

There were also two different Ulster Old Timer Barlow knives. But neither the second Barlow nor the two-blade stockman were part of the tobacco promotion.

[thawk]

I did find one Imperial version of the 58OT.



It can get addicting, chasing those Prince Albert knives. They come in all shades of red and brown!!!!

[thawk]

Let me make the "chase" a little harder . Believe it or not , there is also a 2 blade stockman (also an Ulster). I didn't believe it when an old timer collector asked me to find him one but 4 years later I found one in near mint condition and one in poor shape . I haven't seen one since , but I'm still looking .

That two bladed jack is a 50OT, and probably has bone handles and milled springs too. Still looking for one of those.

[Bob W.]

I've seen all sorts of factory mis-matched blades on Old Timer knives. But that's the first Imperial blade I've seen on one.

[orvet]

Here are a couple pics of my 50OT.
I know of 2 or 3 of them and they all have bone handles.
Mine happens to have a crack in the bone.

The third pic is a 58OT with Imperial's famous shell handles.
Why they put shell handles on this knife, I have no clue.
I also doubt that many were sent out as Prince Albert knives, or they would be more common.
Perhaps this was someone's experiment or they made a few to see how they would look & sell.
Another Schrade/Imperial/Ulster enigma like thawk's Imperial 58OT.


Dale

[ozzie marie]

I had this in Knife & Cutlery Ephemera, but I think it also belongs in this thread.

A pack of coupons for a Ulster Old Timer Knife.

It's from R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company but not a Prince Albert offer.

This offer was from Days Work, Apple or Browns Mule chewing tobacco.

Keith