The schrade 3 3/8" junior cattle knife.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Paul is your top one marked "Stainless" ? I had a Schrade Cut Co marked "Stainless" and it had 'pot holes' in the blades where chunks of steel had come out. The earliest stainless steel had 'issues'. The sheepsfoot looks to have similar 'pot holes'.
kj

No it's carbon steel. I have never seen a stainless jr cattle, I don't know if they even made them.

There is some staining on the sheepsfoot with a little bit of light pitting, perhaps that is what you are seeing?

[kootenay joe]

I thought the pits looked deeper.
If you look at pages 59 &60 Cat E it shows SCC Stainless knives. No. SS8173 is a 3 5/8" Cattle knife with "Bone Stag" handle (Jigged bone)
kj

[KnifeSlinger#81]

I have only seen the 3 5/8" stainless ones like those in the catalog, a member here owns one that is quite perfection. A 3 3/8" in stainless would be a pretty neat knife. Perhaps one will turn up some day.

[tongueriver]

This one is a little different.

[kootenay joe]

Fine Junior Cattle Calvin but it is not stainless. Seems only the large Cattle was ever made with stainless steel.
kj

[KnifeSlinger#81]

I like that one Cal. The DE stamp and shield have always looked very good to me.

I wonder if the spey and punch combination was the most common variation "back in the day".

[tongueriver]

I wonder if the spey and punch combination was the most common variation "back in the day".

Horse tack was mandatory on the farm/ranch so the punch was a tool used far more than a spey blade (i.e. for speying or castrating; but it still was a backup blade otherwise). A clip or spear master, a pen, a sheepfoot, and a punch would be my ideal pocket knife for rural living, in a beefy big 4 blade cattle frame. When it came time to round up the spring calf crop for uh...processing, often there would just be one man doing the neutering, while lots of other folk were tending to everything else, roping, holding the critters securely, branding, the fire, food, doing the math, tending to horses, trucks, trailers, ad infinitum. I would of course be the cooler bitch.

[KAW]

Well since Cal had set the precedent (altho I refer to them as cousins)...

Here's the Ulster I just received this week with classic peachseed bone handles
(hope you don't me adding it here Paul as you had already seen it posted in "Knife Lore")...


...and here's a Devine / Ulster with MoP handles I picked up last summer...

[tongueriver]

Although the pre-war Ulsters were not affiliated with Schrade CutCo, they could have been cousins even then, because the two towns were only a few miles apart. I have read that disgruntled cutlers and their bosses were often at odds over one thing and another and the cutlers were jockying back and forth between the factories all the time. This could partially explain the similarities between the two brands, which diverged somewhat during the war, and then back together again after the 1958 move of everybody to the Ellenville holdings.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

I am almost getting to the point that I may need an old 1/2 dozen box to store these 856's in.

[kootenay joe]

Sure wish i knew the secret to finding these old Beauties !
kj

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Thanks Roland. I don't know if there's a secret, but these are one of my absolute favorite patterns so I relentlessly pursue them when the condition (or price) is right. I may be obsessed with them, but only a little.


Has anybody ever seen one of these four bladers in the wild? I haven't.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

These are the latest jr's I've acquired that have yet to be put in this thread. Any more out there? Let's see them.

[KAW]

These are the latest jr's I've acquired that have yet to be put in this thread. Any more out there? Let's see them.

Paul... I think you grabbed them all!... at least all the good ones...
Seriously tho... exquisite collection you have there!

[kootenay joe]

Oh my Goodness ! A Maher & Grosh Schrade-Walden P.S. bone Cattle knife, in MINT condition ! Absolutely a Top collectible knife. Most of us will never see such a knife except in pictures.
You have shown us quite a few fine vintage Schrade cattle knives, but this one will surely be the center piece of your cattle knife collection.
kj

[JohnR]

Paul, you sure have a nice collection of these great little knives, others have shown some great knives also.

Picked up my first one a couple weeks ago, nice bone and full blades but corrosion from age. What really impressed me is how compact they are, lot of blade in a small package. Last pic shows it next to a Schrade Cut Co single spey Barlow.

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Awesome example John.

[Meridian_Mike]

WOW.... that is a nice example John.
Makes me want to go hunt me one....

Excellent knife!

[Hak1911]

Cousins...?

[thawk]

This is one knife I managed to hang onto. It is not a Schrade, but rather a Craftsman Sta-Sharp 9518. I always admired the Jr. Stockman pattern. Surprising that it fell out of favor from most knifemakers lines. One of many favorite knives I've owned. Not sure how old this one is, but likely made by Camillus in the 1950's. I've posted it a few times but here it is again.

[stockman]

Hal that's beauty I understand why you keep this one.

Harold

[JAMESC41001]

I’d hang on to that one too Hal. Great knife

[KnifeSlinger#81]

Killer knife Hal.

[black mamba]

Ditto the above, wonderful stockman!

[Steve Warden]

This is one knife I managed to hang onto. It is not a Schrade, but rather a Craftsman Sta-Sharp 9518. I always admired the Jr. Stockman pattern. Surprising that it fell out of favor from most knifemakers lines. One of many favorite knives I've owned. Not sure how old this one is, but likely made by Camillus in the 1950's. I've posted it a few times but here it is again.
sta-sharp_cattle_f1.JPG

Next time let me know before you post that one.
Gimme time to grab a napkin.
Almost drooled all over my keyboard!!