All About Pocket Knives

I was wondering if it would be a good idea to have a topic called Tang Stamps where members could post the lists of tang stamps. A member can than match a knife for age and make .

Is this a good idea .What do you think ?

Try it Shearer, and let's see where it goes!

... Joe

Is this what you're talking about Grant?

Get a Goins Guide.There are 10`s of thousands different tang stamps.

Yes jerry .What made me think of this topic I purchased some old knives the other day and spend hours trying to find information.I though if we have the information in a one s topic it would be handy.
Grant

Great idea!
For those that might be unaware, John Goin's Ecyclopedia of Cutlery Markings is a great resource for this information. His last book contains 310 pages of knife company dates and tang stamps. It would be great to have that information available here online also.

Nice info., Jerry! I'll book mark this page.

What about this one with pictures, Shearer?

http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kni ... 35&t=21716

... Joe

BINGO Jerry!

Joe Dirt wrote:Nice info., Jerry! I'll book mark this page.

What about this one with pictures, Shearer?

http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kni ... 35&t=21716

... Joe

Yes that's good. I will just add Hammer Brand.

Jerry,

Quick Resource Nice... Bonehead

FWIW; Goins Encyclopedia Of Cutlery Markings, 1998 edition, lists the following tang stamps in several variations:

S. & R. CO. 1902 - 1905

SEARS ROEBUCK & CO. 1902 - 1905

SEARS ROEBUCK & CO. (curved marking) 1902 - 1905. "Naponoch Knife Co. Napanoch, N.Y." marked on the back of all tangs.

WILBERT CUTLERY CO. circa 1908 - 1921

STA-SHARP circa 1927 - 1941

CRAFTSMAN copyrighted 1928

Even though he stated 1928 as a start date for Craftsman, Goins dates the CRAFTSMAN tang stamps as 1941 to present (1998, time of publication).

He also stated that some knives were marked Schrade-Walden N.Y. USA on the tangs, but "CRAFTSMAN" on the knife's shield.

So, you can just collect Craftsman knives that would date from 1941 to now. Or, you could expand your collection all the way back to 1902.



That's about all I have folks. Ta Done.

These are great to have gathered together, is one available for Ulster tang stamps? OH

Here is some SAK

I copied this info on Kabar tang stamps somewhere in the last couple months.
Not sure where I got it from, not how accurate it is.

Good one Dale! Don't think I've seen a chart on KaBar stamps before, 'preciate you posting that one

Woo hoo baby. I've never seen either one of them. Two new tang stamp charts. It's a good day on AAPK.

Yeah, thanks for that Dale. Saved with all the others

Here is another bunch of Imperial tang stamps that may vary slightly from those posted earlier.
I believe these were originally posted by LT, (Rich Langston).

Just so you can reference them all in one place I added the earlier list-

Here is some info on related knife companies: Remington & Pal.
The Pal info I found posted in a thread. It appears to be from Sargents #3.

This is some great stuff, had I only read it earlier, I might not have had to bother y'all with my Kabar questions . I've been making hard copies of these charts for several years but this is a lot easier to find .
Thanks Gentlemen!
Treefarmer

GREAT THREAD! THIS SHOULD BE A STICKY

i have alot that are posted....like dale said SOME MAY DIFFER from those show.....i will post them if i see any that VARY, FOR REFERENCE


HERE IS ONE NOT POSTED YET.........

COLONIAL

some more BOKER........sorry if some was already posted

BUCK
has some same and some added info, to already posted chart.

IMPERIAL
PATENT NUMBER "APPLIED" FOR DATE & "GRANTED" DATES ....and a lil side info

REMINGTON

again some same as posted.....some different/new info in this chart

oh SNAP NO DATES IN THAT CHART