Help Researching 2 Carl Schlieper German Eye Brand

[sunseterat]

I have been trying to find information about two Carl Schlieper German Eye Brand knives. Has anyone seen ones like this? Thanks for helping out.

[philco]

I can't help you but I think I know who can............I'll send him a private message (PM) and link this thread so he can give it a look. Hopefully he'll be able to help you. By the way, to AAPK.

[sunseterat]

Thanks philco. I just recently caught a bug for folding knives. I have stumbled across some interesting items at estate sales and such. Some of them I have had no luck finding information on them, or even similar looking knives.

[Paladin]

These knives date to about the 1970s, I believe. That stamp was used in two different time spans. The 1st was the 1950s to the early 1970s. The 2nd was 1981 to some time I am not familiar with. I feel sure these were made during the 1st period.
They show up fairly regularly on eBay and sell for a range of prices. I see some offered at really high prices but I suspect they do not sell high.
There is one of the patterns like these that has some foreign writing on the scales and there was much speculation as to the country of origin of the foreign language. Thanks to a member here on AAPK who was from Indonesia we learned the language was in fact Indonesian.

Ray

[sunseterat]

Thankyou Paladin, the information was very helpful.

[kootenay joe]

Schlieper exported their knives & tools regularly to Indonesia. It was explained to me that the Dutch immigrants much preferred German made tools and this enabled Schlieper to get established there. They also used Singapore as an import location and there is at least 1 ebay seller in Singapore who regularly lists older Schlieper tools still in original packaging, supposedly from an "old warehouse find".
kj