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Schrade Tang Stamp - Not On The List
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 11:41 am
by jerryd6818
What can anyone tell me about this G. Schrade / B'Port, CT tang stamp?
Re: Schrade Tang Stamp - Not On The List
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:05 pm
by Shearer
Jerry.George Schrade formed the Geo Schrade Knife Co in 1928-29 in Bridgeport.
This information came out of Blades Guides to Knives and there Values page 151.
Hope this helps.
Re: Schrade Tang Stamp - Not On The List
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 12:09 pm
by jerryd6818
Thanks Grant. I think at some level, I knew that list I have is for Schrade Walden which is a different company.
Re: Schrade Tang Stamp - Not On The List
Posted: Fri Jun 28, 2013 8:18 pm
by tongueriver
jerryd6818 wrote:Thanks Grant. I think at some level, I knew that list I have is for Schrade Walden which is a different company.
George was involved with Schrade Cutlery Company of Walden from 1904 until 1910, whereupon he moved on to other endeavors. From 1910 on he had no relationship with the Schrade firm which this forum was designed to address. There is a nice concise history of his cutlery work in Goins' Encyclopedia of Cutlery Markings, a reasonably priced paperback book which should be in every collector's library.
Re: Schrade Tang Stamp - Not On The List
Posted: Fri Jul 05, 2013 5:07 pm
by woseyjales
tongueriver wrote:......There is a nice concise history of his cutlery work in Goins'
Encyclopedia of Cutlery Markings, a reasonably priced paperback
book which should be in every collector's library.
Shoot TR, I even got one and I'm just an accumulator!
Don't think I can claim 3 kanife books as a library either. 
Re: Schrade Tang Stamp - Not On The List
Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2013 12:05 am
by orvet
Goins dates the George Schrade Knife Co at Bridgeport CT from 1929 to 1956.
In 1965 it was purchased by Boker USA. Boker closed it in 1958, after the anti-switchblade law was passed by Congress.
The thought seems to be they bought the company for the rights to George's patents, but then the law was passed there was no money to be made there.
