I finally got that 227 UH I was looking for

[Meridian_Mike]

Out of my curiosity ....
Was the guard that has the SN stamped on it look the same as the older bird head knife's guard?

I guess where I am headed is this...
Could that guard be one that was actually an older guard that was put on a newer style knife?



Can it be said that the piece with the serial number were laid out at the cutler's table so the next knife assembled would definitely be the next consecutive serial number?

[JAMESC41001]

Guys, I have a flat pommel 171UH with serial #02129. They made the bird's head pommel for roughly 2 years, and made at least 8143 of them, and supposedly the earliest ones didn't have a serial number at all, so maybe about 4 to 5,000 per year. I'm convinced that whenever Schrade changed some feature of the knife they started the serial numbers over again. This should place my knife as made in 1973, and fewer than about 2,000 flat pommels with SW tang stamps.

Schrade171UH_1973cleanup.jpg
Schrade171UH_1973serial.jpg

You may very well be right. Thanks for the input. SCHRADE had a way of mixing in curve balls so it’s hard to dial in lots of times. We need to see more examples I think to be sure.

[tongueriver]

Also, if this has not been addressed, they resurrected the 171 UH for a year or two, 1991-92 after a lapse of years. Same thing with the 498 49r knife.