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Schrade/Cut Co./Walden NY
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 1:20 am
by stockman
Help with age of this knife. note presto-lite key.
Stockman
Re: Schrade/Cut Co./Walden NY
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 3:00 pm
by ea42
Well I'm assuming that's a large equal end scout knife, which was in the catalog from at least the early twenties on up until about 1940.
Eric
Re: Schrade/Cut Co./Walden NY
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2012 3:09 pm
by tongueriver
Your tang stamp suggests (according to some researchers) that your knife was made after WWI. The acetylene lamps on cars winked out before 1930. And your jigging is rather early. So....
Re: Schrade/Cut Co./Walden NY
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 5:54 am
by orvet
Nice one.
Please post pictures of the whole knife, that might help in further dating it.
Besides we just like to look at old knives.
Re: Schrade/Cut Co./Walden NY
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:26 pm
by stockman
Dale, a couple pictures. Master has a trace of etch left, "Everybodys Companion" I think.
I would guess the knife was made around WW1.
Stockman
Re: Schrade/Cut Co./Walden NY
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 9:33 pm
by Iron Hoarder
Definitely solid 1920's.
Re: Schrade/Cut Co./Walden NY
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2012 10:46 pm
by orvet
That pattern would almost seem more appropriate for a horse drawn coach or buggy than for an automobile given that it has a leather punch.
The Presto Lite was horse drawn carriage technology adapted to the early autos, if I recall correctly.
Does anyone know for certain on that?
Re: Schrade/Cut Co./Walden NY
Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 3:36 am
by ea42
Here's a cut from the 1926 catalog: