Eye Brand Rustless

[TexasJack]

Can anyone Date these Knives?
I am not that familiar with Eye Brand even though they are very popular here in Texas.
These do have "Rustless" stamped on all three blades.
The largest is 4.75 inches the middle one is 4 inches and the smallest one is 3.5 inches.

[TexasJack]

[tjmurphy]

Late 60's, early 70's??

[TexasJack]

Late 60's, early 70's??

Thank you!

[Paladin]

Murph pretty well nailed it. The plain un-marked shield was used until the early 1970s. Two of your shields are what I call the 'old style' in that they are a little more elongated than the newer ones. It is almost impossible to pin down dates of manufacture on Eye Brands.
EDIT: In looking at the tang stamps, the Eye over Germany dates beginning in the mid-1970s to 1981, so I guess I better revise my estimate to that. They were a frugal people so the old shields were used until the supply was exhausted.

Ray

[HiPower]

paladin nailed it; incidenily i find the early eye stainless to be very decent in cutting performance, in fact these eyes were superior to any other stainless being produced in that period.--HiPower

[keithw]

Rustless blades with Brown bone, not common (I think)?

Ray, any idea about when they switched over from the elongated shields?
I always assumed (you know what that gets you ), that they just used the elongated shields on bigger knives.

Thanks!

[Paladin]

Rustless blades with Brown bone, not common (I think)?

Ray, any idea about when they switched over from the elongated shields?
I always assumed (you know what that gets you ), that they just used the elongated shields on bigger knives.

Thanks!

Keith,
No idea as to when the elongated shields went out. Seems like I have seen the small version of the elongated shield on smaller patterns, tho I can't point at one right now.
As to the brown bone, except for the really, really old knives, brown bone almost always means stainless. It is much more the rule than the exception.

Ray