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might as well add my robeson

ROBESON Shuredge ROCHESTER 722817 1/2 (large blade)

FRJ wrote:Nice piece of history, Charlie.
Washington apparently got the original knife in 1744.
Do you know who made that knife, by any chance. It must have come from across the pond.
I wonder how many commemoratives were made.

Dale, Paul and Gino, ...........nice knives!

nice pearl Don......
Joe, there were a bunch of company's making these commemoratives for the opening of the George Washington memorial Bridge events the bridge opened in 1932. sometimes they pop up on ebay

SUPER Pearl, all pearlies are nice.

There were about a half dozen makers of the commemoratives in 1932, including Robeson, Camillus and others. One of each would make a nice display for somebody, include a photo of the GWB, George himself, etc. etc.

I thought Joe was asking who had made the original knife that George Washington's mother had given to him. I have no idea. If it is marked, though, that should be obtainable information.

PlainDon, that is a nice old Robeson sleeveboard. I'd like to see some photos taken looking straight down on the knife from both front and back and I'd like to know how long it is with the blades closed.

Charlie Noyes

Thanks, Don.
It's a nice old Robeson.
Charlie Noyes

Bret bought me this pretty one recently...

nice one ! file work & pearl

Thanks, Paul! It's definitely a keeper... and so is Bret!

Nice old Pearl Kathy

Kathy, that's a nice knife and an example of premium work from Robeson.

Pearl handles with a nail ease for each blade, long pulls on all and all blades stamped. Coined liners.

And it's a pattern I do not own. I'm envious.

Charlie Noyes

Charlie,

I can definitely see why you are addicted to Robeson's! I have been keepin' an eye out for them.

I have always thought you had every pattern!

I really do appreciate the kind words,

Kathy

Great lookin knife Kathy, Brett done good!

Kathy, I don't have anywhere near all the patterns. Robeson was quite prolific and innovative in their day.

Charlie Noyes

Robeson Suredge 922501-1/2 Swell Center Pen. I'm assuming the 1/2 designation is the manicure blade. (?)
WB

Probably.

That's not a very common handle material for Robeson, either.

Charlie Noyes

Celluloid in general, Charlie? Or, just this color? Also, was it common for Robeson to have 2 different tang stamps on one knife? I kinda like the arched stamp on the manicure blade.

Thanks, WB

That particular celluloid is generally referred to as "cracked ice". Robeson did not use much of it. They used a cream colored cracked ice on a couple of small pen knives and very junior three blade stock knives in the 50's.

I'm not sure I've ever seen that yellow color before.

Older Robeson knives tend to have tang stamps on all the blades. Generally, the master is stamped with one of the several script ShurEdge stamps and the other blades with an arched Robeson Cutlery stamp.

On premium pearl handled multi-blades or premium bone handled multi-blades all blades were stamped the same, with one of the script ShurEdge stamps.

Those premium knives, especially the pearl handled ones will have long pulls.

Charlie Noyes

Ok, thanks Charlie.

WB

Own one Robeson, it belonged to my wife's grandfather that passed in the mid 1950's.

That's a nice old carpenter's knife. Being your grandfather-in-law's makes it even better.

Charlie Noyes

Hey , Charlie, today is your anniversary. 3 years.

Thanks, FRJ! That would have slipped right by me.

Charlie Noyes

This 3 1/4" Robeson coke bottle crown jack showed up on Ebay a week ago with an absolutely terrible photograph. I downloaded the photo and played around with a bit to make it better, but it was still terribly out of focus. The auction description was virtually non-existant.

The knife appeared to have stag handles.

Robeson did not make very many patterns with genuine stag handles. The 872 swing-guard folding hunter, the big dog-leg trapper and a couple of penknives were about it, as far as I knew.

I contacted Dimitri (Miller Bros.) to ask his opinion of the knife. We discussed it back and forth and I decided to put a bid on it.

Well, I won the auction.

Here is the knife. Note the shape of the bolsters.

It is pattern numbered 322308. The "3" in the pattern number was used for some black compositions, including an imitation stag, similar, if not identical, to that used by Landers, Frary and Clark on their Universal line of pocketknives.

This does not look like their imitation stag. Even under magnification, it looks like stag.

The number for genuine stag would have been a "5".

I've seen Robeson knives with the wrong handle material number before, so I know it happened.

There is no indication that these handles have been replaced.

So, what do you all think? The photos should expand twice with a couple of left clicks.

Genuine stag or imitation?

Also, I already had this pattern with pearl handles, so I'm including a photo of that as well.

Charlie Noyes

Charlie,

Glad to see you got the knife

With out a doubt it is genuine stag and is original to the knife

Nice find!