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schrade empire or other?
Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 11:17 pm
by muskrat man
who do you think had a hand in this little shapleighs jack? 3 3/8" closed, appears to be ebony handles bar shield, half stops and swdges. I'll put my money on Empire, what say you?
Re: schrade empire or other?
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:20 am
by upnorth
Is there a pattern number, Kaleb?
Is the tang "Shapleigh", or "Norvell-Shapleigh"?
Re: schrade empire or other?
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:37 am
by muskrat man
no number it has the Shapleighs Hdw D-E tang stamp
Re: schrade empire or other?
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:47 am
by upnorth
There is a virtually identical knife in the "Norvell-Shapleigh" catalog, pre-WWI, made by Empire. I suspect yours is from after WWI when the name changed back to "Shapleigh", but still Empire-made.
My opinion only.
Re: schrade empire or other?
Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 4:00 am
by Hawke
I recently acquired a Shapleigh knife. In looking for info I ran across this post. I believe I have a knife which used to read "NORVELL SHAPLEIGH" I would like to verify this by finding a picture of a more clean tang stamp or documentation of such.
Here is the knife I have obtained. Wouldnt this be a pre-WWII knife? Any books have info which you can scan for me that I can put with this knife. Thx for any help.
UPDATE: Found a
tang stamp here: