SHOW YOUR NEW (TO YOU) ROBESON

[mickeyevans]

Thanks Charlie, I am doing all right with my new collection, thanks to all you folks and the books and web sites
I got Tom's new book too
hope to be able to refine my collection with some knives like the one you have on this thread
Mick

[mickeyevans]

http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kni ... 93&t=38968
I started a new thread in Robeson collectors forum with this wood Robey
Mick

[mickeyevans]

got this knife for $30 because it is in great shape, blades like new with great snap, a little 'stiff' or is that a good 'tight' feeling?
no half stops? was it made to have half stops or some knives are made not to have half stops?
the tang stamp tells me 1940-1964, which would be the Emerson Case years, and known as good knives
the manufactors #6 says it is real bone, red bone or strawberry bone?
3 3/8 tear drop jack right?
Mick

[mickeyevans]

more research and I notice this; 6 = Genuine Bone, Jigged Rough Black Plastic, Jigged Delrin Imitation Bone
so it may not be bone, but I think it may be and I think it is a swell end jack not a teardrop jack

[RobesonsRme.com]

Genuine strawberry bone on that one, Mickey.

There's a larger version of that as the 056.

Charlie Noyes

[gino]

Mickey , can you show a pic with the blades open ?

[mickeyevans]

not the best shooting at night, but here you go, Gino
I have not touched the blades, may gently polish them?

[gino]

Thanks Mickey, that's a great looking Robeson. I have always been fond of them.

[mickeyevans]

here is another red Robe, 622064
there is some blade loss, not much, they are shaped like lambs foot or thin wharncliffe, not pen/spear, maybe there is more blade loss than i thought, let me take a photo of full blades.
very good walk and talk, 2 3/4 senator (pen) knife
looks like the handle material (bone?) peeled,flaked,split?
before, during or after manufacture ?
I guess real bone , flaked during the making, in the 50's, [ 40-64]
Mick

[Grump01]

JUST GOT THIS IN.....NEW TO ME!

arched- ROBESON over USA over CUTLERY

only marking is tang stamp on main NO pattern number on back
steel bolsters and pins
jigged black scales
COPPER BAIL

SHARPENED but not short......SNAPPY ALL BLADES!

Haven't really got into buying older knives yet, just new, but possibly saw basicly the same as this knife in a local Pawn Shop and they had 39.99 on the tag. Is that a decent price if it is the same as this????? Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer this question!!!!

[junebug]

hey GRUMP!
if yer talkin bout my SCOUT pattern robeson...... i would say NO, that is TOO HIGH
of course that is just my OPINION.....i got mine off ebay......the pics were HORRIBLE and there were only 3
pics.........but i paid .99 cents and the shipping was $3......so basically $4 bucks....
and just bought another one on ebay and paid a lil more...about $7 shipped total!!!!!
i will post pix tomorrow,i just got it in
i got LUCKY ,BOTH TIMES...IMHO
a more reasonable price would be about $20 shipped for a decent user ...and on up in price for more MINTY knives............

[wlf]

Love that strawberry bone guys.Again,really glad you got that electrician Charlie.

[Grump01]

junebug

Boy did I misread a tag. I thought it said Robeson and went back today to look at it out of the showcase it was in and the tag said Crosman USA on it. 918A is the number on the knife if I remembered correctly until I got back in my van to write it down. LOL

Grump01 needs to learn how to read!!!!!

[0078]

Here's a nice sleeve board I just bought, I cleaned it a little. Knife has real nice scales.

[junebug]

got this scout pattern the other day........had no bail,so made one up.
nice work knife

robeson shuredge scout 642214

[gino]

I bought this Robeson Shuredge Jack and am looking forward to getting it any day now.

Robeson and pre 1980 Case xx are my favorite knife brands to collect and own.

I will take some more pics when it gets here

[Miller Bro's]

Nice bone handles

[gino]

I hope so D, I cant wait till she gets here

[steve99f]

It's been a while since this was at the top.

I picked up these two in the last few months, a serpentine and a farmer jack. See attached pictures. Very happy with the Robesons. If I've not identified these properly, let me know the correct pattern name.

[Cutty]

Here's one. Not sure on the date. Can't tell wether or not there's a N.Y. at the end of Rochester?
Best I can tell it dates to between 1907-1939. Maybe one of you xperts can narrow it down for me?

It looks like the model# is 622105
3"closed

[steve99f]

No expert here by any stretch. Stamp looks like bottom line id "ROCHESTER". Shuredge in script. According to "Collector Knives", the makes it 1940 or earlier. Best I can do.

Nice old one.

[Cutty]

Thanks Steve.

[WelderBob]

I thought I'd show this pair of swing guards, the only Robeson's I have. From what I read these are from the 60's.

While both blades are identical in shape I'm wondering about the different pull's.


Bob

[RobesonsRme.com]

These folding guard hunter jacks are one of the very few patterns that Robeson continued to make after WWII, although the pre-war examples were constructed with a locking mechanism.

I don't know exactly how long they continued with this pattern, but I have seen late 50's catalogs that continued to advertise them.

They can be found with different grinds on the blades, including a full hollow. Pattern numbers are the same, regardless of grind.

I think the pulls tell us a lot. The machined pull on the yellow handled knife makes it the earlier of the two. It might be from the mid to late 40's, early 50's.

The punched or impressed pull on the stag handled knife is exactly what one would find on most all genuine strawberry handled Robeson knives that were made between 1948 and 1959.

This punched pull was a cost saving move to allow less expensive, less time consuming construction, allowing Robeson to continue to compete in the marketplace, although that only lasted until 1965, when they finally went under.

Both very nice knives. But, keep an eye on the yellow composition. It can begin to deteriorate.

Here's a couple of strawberry bone knives so you'll know that odd pull is righteous.

And a stag handled trapper from the same time period with the same pulls.

Charlie Noyes

[wlf]

I like swing guards Bob,nice ones.

Charlie, I have a Robeson strawberry bone English jack ,those nicks are real funky.