Found in the desert

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DesertZone
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Found in the desert

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Found this fellow while metal detecting in the desert around the Apache Junction area. Badly corroded. Anyone know anything about the history/origin ?

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::welcome:: to AAPK Desert Zone.
DesertZone wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 9:34 pm Found this fellow while metal detecting in the desert around the Apache Junction area. Badly corroded. Anyone know anything about the history/origin ?
Check out this thread, you'll likely find a wire jack that is very similar to the one you found.

https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kn ... =35&t=3137

Yours looks a lot like this one:
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George Schrade , Bridgeport Ct , wire jack knife , this has the hawkbill blade, the ones with a spear point blade came in a Boy Scout leather kit with a folding fork and small spoon.Has different tang stampings , some dated 9-21-26 and others 1-27-42.
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Wow! Wonder how many decades that knife has been hanging out in the desert?
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Those apparently first appeared around the end of WWI, and ran at least to the early 40s. I've got a spear point Geo. Schrade with a 1942 patent date. Incidentally, there was also a wire fork made, I don't know about spoons.
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I think I saw that these wire jacks are being made now, as we speak, brand new by someone? The spoons were just generic contract spoons; they (George Schrade/Boker U.S.A.) did not make them.
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tongueriver wrote: Sat Nov 26, 2022 7:08 pm I think I saw that these wire jacks are being made now, as we speak, brand new by someone? The spoons were just generic contract spoons; they (George Schrade/Boker U.S.A.) did not make them.
Some of the "new" ones are actually mash-ups of old frames with newer blades like this one I have that has an older frame with a Queen DFC blade.
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They stab it with their steely knives but they just can't kill the beast.
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Thanks to all who took the time to educate me. You are appreciated.
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Just put that knife in a jar with some vinegar and it will clean up just like brand new ::nod:: ... ::paranoid:: maybe... ::paranoid::
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