Help With dating my LB8 Please

[Sitting Bull]

I picked up the Lb8 mentioned in my previous post. I searched the internet and was not able to find a way to date my knife. Would any of you have any ideas?
The blade is marked Uncle Henry in writing on the first line,
SCHRADE + on the second and
LB* USA on the third.
It has 3 pins on the handle , one pin on the front brass bolster and 2 barely visible pins on the rear brass bolster.
The serial # is A 24561.
Thanks for your help guys.

[orvet]

With that low serial number I would guesstimate 1981-1983.
The LB8 was introduced in 1981. They ran 00001 through 99999 and then added the A prefix. Then B, then, etc. through the end of the alphabet. When they went through Z99999 they used AB, then AC, etc.

Schrade made knives and they were very good at that. They were not good at keeping records. There are not a lot of records that survived the bankruptcy.

Hope this helps.

[Sitting Bull]

Thank you for your reply, I love to learn about the history. This knife is growing on me, it feels nice in the hand and I can't wait to try it out on game.
Thanks again.