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Factory condition "Carl Schlieper Hammered Forged" 5 5/8" Clasp knife with original leather belt sheath. This size Schlieper is almost never seen. The 4 5/8 Large Clasp knife is reasonably common. Stiff pull as befits a big knife but not a nail breaker. 100% solid fully open and in any position. Belt sheath is also never used, comes with the knife and is a perfect fit.
$160 firm (150 knife, 10 to help with shipping from Canada)
contact me via PM or email: [email protected]
It truly is an 'awesome' knife. You will not be disappointed.
Note: "Sod Buster" name was invented by Case in 1970 when the 38 pattern first came out. These 'Clasp' knives have been made in Germany since late 1800's.
kj

Here are 2 more pictures for size: compared to a large Schlieper (Eye Brand) Clasp knife, aka "sod buster", 4 5/8".
kj

kootenay joe wrote:Factory condition "Carl Schlieper Hammered Forged" 5 5/8" Clasp knife with original leather belt sheath. This size Schlieper is almost never seen. The 4 5/8 Large Clasp knife is reasonably common. Stiff pull as befits a big knife but not a nail breaker. 100% solid fully open and in any position. Belt sheath is also never used, comes with the knife and is a perfect fit.
$160 firm (150 knife, 10 to help with shipping from Canada)
contact me via PM or email: [email protected]
It truly is an 'awesome' knife. You will not be disappointed.
Note: "Sod Buster" name was invented by Case in 1970 when the 38 pattern first came out. These 'Clasp' knives have been made in Germany since late 1800's.
kj

Roland, what is the handle material?
Mark

Wood but i don't know which wood it is. Knife is heavy, so it's dense wood. Very neat grain under 9x loupe. Might be black walnut.
kj

I like a large pocketknife/ folder....but, dang! That's YUUUUGE

There is one even bigger at 8 1/4" closed with pick & tweezers in handle end. I have one of these as well. Would you like to buy both ?
kj

Probably a California knife originally based on the fact that it's from a fruit company and has the LUcerne telephone exchange. The two-letter exchange codes were introduced in the late 1920s but the two-letter plus five-number codes (like the knife's LU 4-1405) in the late 1930s and rolled out into the 1940s.

Growing up in the SF Bay Area (Hayward) we had a Lucerne exchange code (LU 1 if I remember right). Lucerne covered the area around Hayward and Castro Valley and south into Fremont towards San Jose.

Other parts of the country had their own LU exchanges (e.g., LUdlow, LUther) but the fact that it's for a fruit company argues for CA.

Sorry for the useless information but I'm feeling lousy and just hanging around on the computer biding time until a 10:45 doctor's appointment. Idle hands...

Dennis

Not useless info Dennis. I find it interesting.
kj

I'll take it.

If the other person didn't already buy it, of course.

Jake please email me and we can exchange info for payment & shipping.
[email protected]
Sent you a PM as well.
kj

SOLD.
kj