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Pleased to have another Townley this is my second of a fairly rare hard to find hardware knife, knowing they didn’t make their own and hard to tell who made for I’ve been told this looks a lot like a Challenge. Thoughts?

A good looking knife, whoever made it.

Clark23 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 12:49 am Pleased to have another Townley this is my second of a fairly rare hard to find hardware knife, knowing they didn’t make their own and hard to tell who made for I’ve been told this looks a lot like a Challenge. Thoughts?

Beautiful! Love it!

Thoughts? Actually I do. I think I wish i had one like it!!!

doglegg wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 2:46 am Thoughts? Actually I do. I think I wish i had one like it!!!

.... yeah .... What doglegg said!

Beauty of a knife, Clark.

Clark23 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 12:49 am Pleased to have another Townley this is my second of a fairly rare hard to find hardware knife, knowing they didn’t make their own and hard to tell who made for I’ve been told this looks a lot like a Challenge. Thoughts?

Great looking knife . Looks like from a couple catalog pages these companies at one time supplied knifes to Townleys.

Thomasg wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 2:20 pm

Clark23 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 12:49 am Pleased to have another Townley this is my second of a fairly rare hard to find hardware knife, knowing they didn’t make their own and hard to tell who made for I’ve been told this looks a lot like a Challenge. Thoughts?

Great looking knife . Looks like from a couple catalog pages these companies at one time supplied knifes to Townleys.IMG_5835.pngIMG_5834.png

Thank you for sharing this, so this would make it out to be that these companies possibly made knives for Townley?

Possibly. It means for sure Townley sold knives made by those companies (Camillus and Ulster). It may or may not mean those companies contracted to make knives having the Townley tang stamp.

Ken

Clark23 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:54 pm

Thomasg wrote: ↑Wed Jan 15, 2025 2:20 pm

Clark23 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 18, 2024 12:49 am Pleased to have another Townley this is my second of a fairly rare hard to find hardware knife, knowing they didn’t make their own and hard to tell who made for I’ve been told this looks a lot like a Challenge. Thoughts?

Great looking knife . Looks like from a couple catalog pages these companies at one time supplied knifes to Townleys.IMG_5835.pngIMG_5834.png

Thank you for sharing this, so this would make it out to be that these companies possibly made knives for Townley?

It is really hard to determine with any certainty who made the knifes for Townley.Although the catalog page from “1950 “ the ulster knifes company does show a dog leg with a similar long blade pull and swedge that looks a lot to me the same as the pearl handle knife I sent you ? The cattleman and jack would be dated I would think some time after 1909 when they added the metal and hardware to their company name . The pearl maybe older or on the smaller knife they didn’t have the room for the addition of metal and hardware and Kansas City mo On the tang for stamping .

Beautiful knife!!!!