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Hello Robeson folks. I'M J.O'., a one week member of the AAPK site. You might enjoy this Pruner. It's 4-5/8" closed. The bones are very nice and it's in fine condition, walks and talks well, nice buttplate and rat tail bolsters with iron liners.
If you zoom in you can really see the hand work in the old rivets and pins. Amazing they could hammer them flat and not crack the bones!
I met an old timer Robeson collector at a show who told me a story about these bone-handled pruners. He said the salesmen would offer these fancy ones as a premium to foremen or farmers who ordered sufficient numbers of their standard, wood-handled pruners. Can't verify it but it's a nice story from a nice old guy at a knife show. Hope you enjoy seeing it. J.O.

Sorry, forgot to add the reverse of the tang is stamped with the pattern number. Oddly it's 611 Vertically?
197

Wow, that is such a beautiful old knife!

And Welcome to AAPK!

Please, post pictures of any old knives that you have. We love to see 'em, especially those hard-to-find wonderful old knives like the one above!

Thanks for posting. It is a nice old Robeson.

I have never heard that story before and I doubt it's true.

Charlie Noyes

Nice old pruner.
It looks kind of thin, too. Must be a great pocket carry.

Not really thin. Kinda heavy for a carry. J.O.