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Farmer jacks. Schrade kept this jigging awhile. The farmer jacks I do not think appeared in Schrade's catalog until 1932. I do not know if they made them previously.This jigging on this pattern lasted several years.

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1.DE
2. Walden NY USA
3.old Cut-no shield
4.Walden NY-only
5.old Cut with Shield
6.Nicer old Cut-no shield

RobesonsRme.com wrote:OK. I have knives whose pics are in a photo file called "Knives With No Numbers". I looked through it and found some candidates for this thread.

Some really unusual jigged bone patterns on these knives Charlie, thanks for showing more of them

garddogg56 wrote:MAN I'll say it again NICEshow I've looked at all five pages and decided to put up my 1892-99 cir. Valley Forge because I haven't seen any jigged like this one ::shrug::KEEP'EM COMING

I kinda thought there would have been a coment on the jigging so I'll ask is this jigging common or is the jigging just gone by????

GardDog, I thought the jigging was a bit unusual on the knife, but it's hard to know what it looked like when new. I think there has been quite a bit of wear on it.

I think it's possible that at one time the bone on your knife was very similar to that on this old Robeson stockman I posted earlier.

The jigging pattern is similar and the bone on your knife is probably a bit faded.

Charlie Noyes

Some more jigged bone

Yae Charlie I see what your saying..Your Robesons are beautifull

garddogg56 wrote:I kinda thought there would have been a coment on the jigging so I'll ask is this jigging common or is the jigging just gone by????

The jigging pattern is typical of New jersey made knives of the period.

That's good to know because the scales are flush with the bolsters..Here is two of my favorites for the show.

Nice Robesons

A few more examples...........

Miller Bro`s wrote:Some more jigged bone

MB. IMO its hard to find the ole jigging on that Case WWI knife, my favorite.... BH

Thanx Miller,that Camillus Cut Co is perfict

I love the bone on that Shapleigh.

Thank You for the nice comments gentlemen!

Here are more oldies..

Here are some pilfered photos of Robeson knives that have sold on Ebay over the years.

I did not win any of these auctions.

This first one is a bolster lock Paxton-Gallagher, Omaha, Nebraska marked knife,
but was almost surely made by The Robeson Cutlery Company, as that bolster lock
design was theirs.

I think it has some really nice bone on it.

The rest are nice too. I particularly like the bone on that little two blade Congress.

Charlie

Charlie, did those liner lock Robeson`s come in Stainless Steel too?

Here are a couple more:

MB wrote: "Charlie, did those liner lock Robeson`s come in Stainless Steel too?"

Dimitri, I have never seen one in stainless.

Are you thinking that Paxton - Gallagher looks stainless?

Charlie

RobesonsRme.com wrote:Are you thinking that Paxton - Gallagher looks stainless?

It could be, I wish I had a picture with the blade open.

I would think that this type of knife , especially the model with the De-scaler blade would have been made in Stainless Steel I know that Schrade, Ulster and others did.

More jigging.........

Only one I have. Don't know why.

Charlie

Hard to say for sure, but it does look like stainless, and it is so clean without any age spots.

That knife sold on Ebay a few years ago for $600.00 or so.

Looked well worth it to me at the time, I just wasn't capable of putting that kind of money into it.

If it's stainless, it's probably worth a bit more.

Charlie

Snitched from a current Ebay auction.

Cattaraugus locking jack with beautiful Indian Trail bone.

Charlie

I learned a lot guys. Thanks for sharing all the pics. I don't have much old bone. I would not be able to tell if it was good or bad. This pocket worn case was my Dad's. Jigging all but gone. It brought me to this site.

Chief RID wrote:I learned a lot guys. Thanks for sharing all the pics. I don't have much old bone. I would not be able to tell if it was good or bad. This pocket worn case was my Dad's. Jigging all but gone. It brought me to this site.

AS far as I'm concerned the pocket worn knives are the best.
Just imagining what that knife was use for and where that knife has been to get in that condition.
If that knife could tell a story.

JW~