All About Pocket Knives

This is a nice Schrade Cut. Co. stamped cattle knife, 3-5/8" closed. The oval shield on each side has G WHITFIELD RICHARD PHILA.

Interesting in that over the course of many years, I have seen dozens if not hundreds of old Schrade Cut two-blade cigar jacks on the same frame with the same advertising shield on each side. This however is the first three blade cattle.

I wonder what type of company G Whitfield Richards was (or is). I may try to google them.

Anyone else have either a two or three blade with these advertising shields?

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Both beauties Steve and Cal.

Two beautiful solid tools.
I've never seen that shield before.

Steve,

The company was founded in 1902. It makes lubricants, cleaning chemicals, coolants, etc. I think it was also involved in trucking at one point (or maybe still is). Today the company is called RichardsAspex. Still located in Philadelphia.

Dennis

Steve or Cal, doesn't that deep pick bone precede the peach seed jigging? About when were those cattle knives made?

black mamba wrote:Steve or Cal, doesn't that deep pick bone precede the peach seed jigging? About when were those cattle knives made?

I am inclined to say late teens to early '30s. Here is one that is known to precede 1920. It is different.

Thanks, Cal.

black mamba wrote:Steve or Cal, doesn't that deep pick bone precede the peach seed jigging? About when were those cattle knives made?

This was from a friend at BFs

"I've found this scan to be a good one to show anybody who asks about Schrade bone jigging. I've discussed it with other Schrade collectors, and although we do not know for sure, we think this information is a good guess.
The pic shows 12 knives, and 4 types of jigging.
The three at upper left seem to characterize the oldest jigging Schrade used. The knives with it often have the old "arched" tang stamp.
The three knives at upper right may be from after George Schrade invented his jigging machine. I suspect that machine may have done the jigging for New York Knife Co. also, with slightly different settings!!
There seems to be a period when this "basketweave" style was tried out on the knives in the lower left. I think it was hard to maintain the pattern - notice how confused it is on the third of those three knives.
It's not as common, and I'm sure it precedes the last "Peachseed" style on the knives at lower right, which was used into the Schrade Walden period, up to sometime in the 1950s or so. I wish I could confirm some of this, but for now it is just a semi-educated guess!"

Much appreciated, Lyle, I'm pretty sure I recognize Charly's scans.

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