Actually, LT did not erase the pictures that he posted, what you are seeing is the result of using photo hosting sites. I was very active on B/F when this was posted in 2006. At that time, but I do not believe B/F hosted their own photos even for Gold members. In 2006 nonpaying members of B/F were required to use an off-site photo hosting service to post a picture on B/F. This helps them save bandwidth and data by not having to host their members photos on their site. The members pay a photo hosting service, or use a free photo hosting service which links the photo to B/F so members perusing the forums can see the photos other members have posted. As I recall I used Photobucket which was a free site.
The enormous disadvantage to this system is that as soon as a B/F member stops using their photo hosting service, especially if it’s a paid service, their pictures go away. I used Photobucket which didn’t charge me anything, but as soon as I stopped using Photobucket for their predetermined time limit, they canceled my account which removed all the links that I had posted in any forum, including AAPK.
You will notice that many of the topics on B/F that are 10 years old are missing the pictures, unless the posting number is now a paid member and has continued to pay for all these years. A few years after this was posted (in 2006) I had a paid membership to B/F and they hosted my pictures for me on their site at no additional fee; that was part of the $50 I paid for my annual gold membership. When I decided I really didn’t use B/F enough to make it worth my while to pay $50 a year for my gold membership I let my membership lapse. I noticed afterwards that the pictures I had posted when I had the paid membership also disappeared.
On AAPK we host your photos on our servers so that they do not disappear. That’s why it is very difficult, hopefully impossible, for anyone to post a picture here using a photo hosting service. We want the pictures that our members post to be available years from now when future members read your posts. We don’t want them to disappear because you have dropped your photo hosting account, or because you no longer post on AAPK. Bryan has a vision for AAPK that it is, in part, a resource for knife collectors to research about the knives they collect.
In 2006 a lot of AAPK members used photo hosting services, simply because they were used to doing that on most all knife forums. If that topic had been posted on AAPK with our current policies, LT would’ve uploaded his pictures to AAPK servers and they would still be in that topic some 10+ years later.
This is a portion of what LT posted on B/F, 5/15/06. He was talking in reference to another persons post about the Baer brothers and their insistence that they produced cutlery for household, sporting and workmen use, not weapons.
Posted by LT 5/15/06
“The story is that these were made by Schrade but never produced even though they had 100,000 on order just from the protos. As I and others have written before, Schrade felt that there image was to make tools not weapons . What about all those bayonettes ect ????? I don't know, go figure. Anyway the managment in there wisdom decided not to produce them ( to violent like autos I guess ). Either one probably would have saved the company. This one I do not believe was the one from the collection which was shown to me by the president of Shrade when he showed me the knife, in the collection on the wall after he told me the story. Knowing the players in this deal I believe this one was scoffed by an employee.”
This previous paragraph relates how he knew of the existence of this prototype from viewing the Schrade factory collection.
He later on tells about how he saw the prototype knife in an auction on eBay and was able to contact the buyer and purchase the knife from the eBay buyer for a nice profit to the fellow who had purchased it on eBay. In those days you could contact another eBay buyer and do that sort of after-the-fact transaction. Now of course you can’t contact another eBay member buyer to buyer through eBay. This is before the buyer’s ID was scrambled.
LT mentioned that he sent a picture of the knife to Larry Vickery at collectors-of-Schrade-R-us. I have to email Larry anyway so I’ll see if he still has the pictures. It’s not I will give LT a call and see if he will post the picture or send the picture to me to post.
It’s a nice-looking knife, as you can see from this Chinese version.
I got this picture off of eBay, but you can see what the knife in general looks like.
Hopefully LT will have discovered more information about this prototype and will be willing to join this topic and share with us his wealth of Schrade information, as well as part of his collection!
in the city. Either strapped to my leg or in a shoulder-type sheath, it makes for a quiet self-defense option. If you plant one of these in a BG's ribs, he's liable to reconsider his aggressive tendencies. 
This is my 1620 Schrade I picked up fron a friend for $15. Seems like a fairly solid knife. ftd