All About Pocket Knives

Here are some of my latest additions to my accumulation of knives.

Cool knives Kaleb. I like those Hawkbills. Are you goin to rehandle or filework any of them?

Singin46

Love the Case Peanut Kaleb. Are you going to put your Jeancarta arrowhead peanut on Ebay? Kelley

nice for anyones collection.

Very cool M-M! About what year is that Schrade large wirejack from?

No offense intended, but it is incredibly "modern" looking! It should be the pocketknife in the design section of the Museum of Modern Art.

Very cool!

Those are all very cool MM
I really like the Ka-bar Hawk

Dave

Nice additions MM,

A fine bounty to add to your knife collection. I especially enjoy the Kabar and the peanut..

Sunburst

Schrade wire jack, Very Kool! What years was that Schrade

Manufactured?

Hey Kaleb,
That Wire Jack is awesome. Can you tell if there was ever the sheet metal liner inside? You would probably see a place where a spot weld was broken. If not, and it never had one of the liners in it, you probably have one of the very early ones.

A couple years ago at the OKCA show, B.K. Brooks had a Schrade display there. He also has written about Schrade for Knife World. I had a nice discussion with him about the Wire Jacks (among other things). He said they were originally made without the liner in the center, but the liner was added very early on, because people were clipping the tips of their fingers when they closed the knives.

B.K. said that the ones without the liner were the very first ones made. IIRC, he said the liners were added within the first year they were introduced.

Great find and a nice pattern!
Dale

Cool knives,Bro!!

http://www.guycard.com/wirejack.htm

here is a way to date the wirejack.

Thanks for the comments guys,

singin46-No, all these are staying factory.

gunsmoke47-I already sold the schrade with jeancarta and arrowhead filework

This wirejack doesn't look to have had the liner at any time, so it it probably one of the earlier ones. I'll check out the webpage Johnnie F provided and see if I can come up with a date range. I'm gonna say it's pre WWII.

Kaleb,
Show a scan of the tang stamp & pat # if possible. That might help date it. My guess at the date would be early 1930's, well before WWII, if the pat #s support it. But it is just a guess.

Dale

The stamp on my knife is identical to this other than the fact it has Pat. Pending between "pat. 1-27-42" and "b'port CT" It reads like this:

GEO. SCHRADE
KNIFE CO.
PAT 1-27-42
PAT. PENDING
B'PORT CT

Humm........
Maybe BK was mistaken about the inner piece of metal & the time line. Or else I misunderstood him............which is entirely possible.

Nice Wire Jack.

Dale

Here's a new (to me) one. schrade walden 820. cute little guy.

Thats pretty cool, did'nt know they made them like that. Thanks for the view mm.

Singin46

Here's a beauty of a little budding knife. This one is a 1965-1969 model with some purty redbone handles. The blade is sharpened away a little bit and was real rusty when I got it, I waved my magic wand over it and she looks alot better than she did.

Man, them scales look sweeet. Classic lookin piece mm

Singin46