A CHALLENGE for you.

[djknife13]

Beautiful Ike.____Dave

[Waukonda]

Thank you, Mn Dave!

[JohnR]

Decent small 3 1/8" ebony wharncliff pen with a light etch.

[LongBlade]

Hey John - lovely knife ... You indeed have a great eye for knives .. or is it your wife? .. I think I will hire somebody to track down your source and lead me to the buried treasure. .. sweet score!!

[Mumbleypeg]

Mike (Scoutknives) posted a couple of these earlier in this thread. Here’s one I have. Still has a faint etch on the master blade.

Ken

[LongBlade]

Very nice Ken ... Cool to see a Boys Scout knife with the embossed handles ... I have yet to add a Scouts knife though have most other patterns - been patiently waiting for the right one to trip my trigger for a few years now... though I will say the Challenge "classical" boys knives are interesting as I understand there was some legal issues with them using the official Boy Scout emblem if I remember correctly - and I may not ...

[JohnR]

Hey John - lovely knife ... You indeed have a great eye for knives .. or is it your wife? .. I think I will hire somebody to track down your source and lead me to the buried treasure. .. sweet score!!

Thank you Lee

[Waukonda]

Classy looking knives, John and Ken.

[Mumbleypeg]

Very nice Ken ... Cool to see a Boys Scout knife with the embossed handles ... I have yet to add a Scouts knife though have most other patterns - been patiently waiting for the right one to trip my trigger for a few years now... though I will say the Challenge "classical" boys knives are interesting as I understand there was some legal issues with them using the official Boy Scout emblem if I remember correctly - and I may not ...

Knives stamped both Challenge and Case Bradford used these same embossing dies. The blades are different and the pile side scene on the Challenge version is oriented “upside down” relative to the Case (or visa versa depending on how you perceive it). I’ve seen speculation that one or both companies attempted to get official BSA endorsement for the pattern (and failed), and that one or the other of the two companies made them all. And that George Schrade had dealings with both companies around that timeframe so he may have been involved. Nobody seems to know for sure but regardless whatever happened, they’re interesting knives.

Ken

[ScoutKnives]

Yeah Ken ,
I kinda have an obsession for them
The challenge version came in three different handle materials that I have found , brass , copper and silver .
The case version comes with either brass liners or nickel silver liners , the brass is the most common , blades are slightly different between them as well .

Mike

[LongBlade]

Yeah Ken ,
I kinda have an obsession for them
The challenge version came in three different handle materials that I have found , brass , copper and silver .
The case version comes with either brass liners or nickel silver liners , the brass is the most common , blades are slightly different between them as well .

Mike

Nice pile of knives Mike ... Cool to have the different handles too ..

[ScoutKnives]

Thanks Lee

Mike

Yeah Ken ,
I kinda have an obsession for them
The challenge version came in three different handle materials that I have found , brass , copper and silver .
The case version comes with either brass liners or nickel silver liners , the brass is the most common , blades are slightly different between them as well .

Mike

Nice pile of knives Mike ... Cool to have the different handles too ..

[Waukonda]

Here are a couple that I just picked up from Roger (peanut740). Aside from the fact that they are both Challenge, they share the same etch. They are marked "Schell's Quality Seeds, Harrisburg, Pa". These 2 patterns would be a good fit for a seed company.

Has anyone else out there run across this etch in any other brands or patterns?

[Waukonda]

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[peanut740]

They make a nice pair!

[JohnR]

Very nice Ike, I know Lyle has some farmers jacks with the Schell's etch, hopefully he will chime in.

[Waukonda]

Thank you, Roger. Thank you, John.

[LongBlade]

Nice pair of Challenge knives Ike ... Not easy to find Farmer's Jacks and especially those made in CT despite the abundance of cutleries here in yesteryear...

[Waukonda]

Thank you, Lee.

[Waukonda]

3 1/4"

[Ivoryman]

Somewhere around a hundred year old Challenge barehead spear/pen. Also a 1940s Pal Stockman.

[knife7knut]

Picked up this little metal handled pen a couple weeks ago.Blades were patina'd almost black. Also here is a pic of my easy open I've had for awhile.

[Ivoryman]

Picked up this little metal handled pen a couple weeks ago.Blades were patina'd almost black. Also here is a pic of my easy open I've had for awhile.

Wonderful EZO. Just beautiful. Congrats.

[1967redrider]

You guys blew my socks off, those are some sweet knives! Great etch on that one, Ike.

[peanut740]

3 1/4"

Ike