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I posted this on one of the other forums earlier and did not get any help. I would like to get a closer guess of the date on the bottom knife. It is a Robeson master blade script tang stamped. Ferguson stated 1920 to 1945. Steel bolsters and steel liners. This knife was very dirty, looks funny by tang on mark side, pile side perfect. I think it has had something corrosive on the blades sometime in its life. Knife is very solid.

Thanks
Stockman

It looks like an older Robeson, Stockman because of the bone jigging and color.. Can you post a better shot of the main blade tang stamp?

Thanks for the reply Charlie. I will try to get a better shot of the tang. On my set up it will click twice to a nice big picture. I also think it is a early knife closer to the 20's or 30's

Stockman

I can click it up in size, but I'd like to see the rest of the tang stamp. They varied over the years.

I have an old cigar literaly, I know cause it says Y&B Cigars, anyone care to venture an opinion on when they made these, it belong to a Great Uncle and he died in WWII.
Enjoy The Day Folks
Rusty

YB Cigars = Yocum Brothers Cigars...now owned by American Western Cigars (?).

Oh...I don't know a plugged cigar about the cool knife...

Bill

I have a similar knife with a KENT tang stamp.
Kents were made for Woolworth's by Camillus.

Dale

Knife World Magazine published a great article about Y-B knives by Mark Zalesky in March 2004!
You can buy back issues from;
http://www.knifeworld.com/index.html
If you collect old knives, you MUST subscribe to Knife World Magazine. It is always loaded with good stuff, right up our alley!!

I can see that I am indeed going to have to get a sub. for that mag., one more mag is not going to kill the ole lady LOL.
I have a bigger collection of guns than knives and she has a fit about all the gun mags and the fishing mags( 40,000 dollar tackle box ) ahahahahah she hates that to !!!
Rusty