All About Pocket Knives

1967redrider wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 5:53 pm Too bad it was never printed, I would love perusing such a book.

wiseguy wrote: ↑Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:11 pm Wow ! rare knives on that cover shot.... very cool ! Bill , were you aware of the 4 blade model shown ?

Shuler wrote: ↑Wed Nov 17, 2021 11:00 pm Terry Lee Shuler back again...what follows is my first installment pertaining to information on the interesting 4 button/4 blade Schrade auto:

This envelope contains a letter from Gilbert Schrade son of J. Lewis Schrade co-founder of Schrade Cutlery Co. 1904. Gilbert Schrade describes within this letter the rarity of the four blade button knife. To whomever might be interested-Early in the twentieth century, 1904 to be exact, a thirty year old visionary young man-eager, enthusiastic, energetic, aspiring, had a dream! His name was J. Lewis Schrade, who, I am proud to say, was my father. He had just completed a year-long tour of all the major pocket knife manufacturing centers of Europe-England, Germany, Sweden, France, to name a few. His dream-to return to the U.S. utilizing what he had learned, build a small factory, start and operate a pocket knife manufactory of his own. This he did! A barely adequate two-room plant was erected in the tiny village of Walden, N.Y. The company was named the Schrade Cutlery Co. - and from this humble beginning evolved one of the great cutlery names in the whole world!

Partly his dream was to produce a line of pocket knives of the very brightest possible quality, second to none! Along with two brothers as co-owners, some borrowed capital and a mere handful of employees, his dream late in 1904 slowly became a reality! Late in 1904, the first reliable pocket knives were offered for sale and were bought by people who were to become very satisfied customers for the next forty-plus years.