Identify the picture win a Schrade money clip and hat.

johnnierotten · Post by **johnnierotten** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:36 am

Schatt & Morgan?

W5RWU · Post by **W5RWU** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:37 am

Keen kutter

lt632ret · Post by **lt632ret** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:42 am

Please be assured that this is the original building from which a very well known eastern knife company first used as there original manufacturing plant. This is not a trick nor is there any deception in the question. I would not do that it is a straight forward honest question . LT PS still no winners.

W5RWU · Post by **W5RWU** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:45 am

Thank you Lt was going guess KABAR next ! this is fun !!!

See ya Randy

lt632ret · Post by **lt632ret** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:48 am

It is keeping me sober. No not Kabar which was also Union so no to both.

johnnierotten · Post by **johnnierotten** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:52 am

Imperial?

W5RWU · Post by **W5RWU** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:02 am

Colonial Knife Company or utica cut co my final guess
Good nite Randy

lt632ret · Post by **lt632ret** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 6:28 am

Jonnny Rotten is a Winner. I will post the entire story and more pics tomorrow ( since I have to scan it. ) Please send your address and i will send you your hat ( when I dig out. ) OK first of all someone mentioned that perhapes the Schrade items were throwing people off, well the entire name of Schrade at the end was Imperial Schrade ( this is what I meant by misinterpreting some clues). Also the pic is from 1916 which is why the Napanoch guess was a good one since it would have basicly been a similar structure with similar photography, Granted It was a rare pic and a tough question also when I did the Camillus story on the Camillus thread I mentioned the Levine book it came from. this story is also in this book. In any event we have a winner. Thankyou to all and tomorrow I hope you enjoy the entire story. I do not know if any of you remember that I have the original grinding wheel that Felix Miranda used during this period. so the chances are it was in this building when this pic was taken. I will get more into it tomorrow . If I make it digging out. Once again Congrats and thankyou all I enjoyed seeing the participation. There aint many of us but damn we are good. LT

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:25 am

That was a great contest!

Please post pics of Felix's original grinding wheel. That is a great story that some here probably have not heard.

Thanks,
Dale

El Lobo · Post by **El Lobo** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:11 pm

Congrats johnnierotten...

Thanks for the contest LT...and looking forward to..."The rest of the story."

Bill

W5RWU · Post by **W5RWU** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:17 pm

That was GREEAATT!!!Thanks for the fun LT

Randy

johnnierotten · Post by **johnnierotten** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:32 pm

YEAH BABY,YEAH!!!

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Thanks LT,that was a really cool contest.I enjoyed watching,and participating !!

PS: Thanks everyone!!

lt632ret · Post by **lt632ret** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 5:56 pm

Alrighty then I dug out 4 hours now here is the entire Imperial story which also verifys the authenticity of the picture in the contest. I also included two pics of my porch ornament which is the original Grindstone used by Micheal Mirando. Which as i said could very well have been in this building when the pic was taken. The story of how I got the stone is already in one of these threads after the Prov RI plant closed Schrade brought it and the rest of the stuff from the RI plant to Ellenville I have a lot of it including Mirandos original work counter with drawers. What a nightmare that was to get home. In any event the Grindstone was on display in the lobby of Schrade until I er rescued it. That as I said is a story unto itself. I am thinking that if the museum does not go through perhapes I will have it used as a headstone for my final resting place. Getting home with it was almost as tough as the time I swam the English Channel , with an anvil on my chest with a broken arm I swam and drank beer with the other arm. OK that is a bit much but it is St Paddys day and that is a great Victor McLaglan quote. My email is lt632ret@frontiernet.net so Mr Rotten please send your address so I can send your prize. I am also including an Imperial Schrade keyring which I did not post originally since it would have been to big a hint. Enjoy the holiday and remember the old Irish saying Erin Go Braless. LT

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 7:37 pm

More great history!

The best article I have seen on Imperial.
Thanks LT.

Dale

Gr8Scout · Post by **Gr8Scout** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:06 am

Way cool Lt and good going JohnnieRotten. LT's contests have always been fun. I obtained one of the hats years ago. I got a Schrade money clip when we did the bfc forum knife and I use it much. It holds my 'knife buy' money, a couple of hundreds and a few fifties, when I go to a show, or knife shopping somewhere, or when someone brings me a knife to purchase. Never underestimate the power of cold hard cash when knife dealing.

LT, hope you are surviving the blizzard. If the steaks and lobster does not hold out, I understand cats taste like chicken.

phil

LRV · Post by **LRV** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:11 pm

Until the last clue I was sure it was LT's garage before he replaced the door.
Ulster started in a old foundry building so I know thats not it.
Im' gonna guess NYK. It kinda looks like the old building did in the last postcard picture we posted..
Great little contest.!

Mossdancer · Post by **Mossdancer** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 4:25 pm

LT;
Really great stuff. Shows how much I know. I was getting ready to guess Jim Parkers Custom shop.
wb