All About Pocket Knives

Just happened to stop by a junk store today and walked around looking at mostly junk knives and cheap import Zippo copies when one knife caught my eye. I asked to see it and it was cleaner than I had hoped for with full blades that looked basically as if they had never been sharpened. It was a Schrade 234K Serpentine Jack dating from between 1946-56. I handed it back asking what the guy wanted for it. When he said 20 bucks cash I think I scared him at how fast I whipped out my wallet.

I really like these old K-Horn butter and molasses scaled Schrades and to find one in LNIB condition for 20 bucks just absolutely made my day. This knife walks and talks like new and despite the carbon steel blades there isn't a sign of age on them...just lots of oil. I don't think this knife ever saw the inside of a pocket.

NICE!!!! Gotta love that! I hope you gave him your number incase he came across any more knives! LOL!!!

Nice find & a great price!

Nice knife and a very good price, but if I'm seeing the stamp correctly, it is post 1973 (SCHRADE NY USA with 234K on the back side). I've seen that style handles with SCHRADE WALDEN stamping too.

The one above is the newer style, with a solid composite plastic of some sort. The older K-Horn knives (also 896K) were cellulloid with the see through 3D handles.


SCHRADE
WALDEN
NY USA
234K

That is pretty Hal!

these look great, ive got a schrade whittler on its way but dont know much about it yey as its part of a trade,


paul

Nice!

Great find, great price.