All About Pocket Knives

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 7:46 pm I'm always on the lookout for a NYKCo "Be Prepared" Scout.

1967redrider wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 7:46 pm I'm always on the lookout for a NYKCo "Be Prepared" Scout.

bestgear wrote: ↑Sat Nov 09, 2024 5:16 pm I was so successful selling Scout knives recently that I've been consigned about 50 BSA knives to sell. They range from vintage to modern, most in their original boxes including a Western/Plumb fixed-blade hand-axe sheathed combination set. The inventory also includes an Ulster Sea Scout knife, the elusive Remington black stag handled knife, and the not-so-common 2-blade LF&C knife. The are all on eBay and can be found at: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fss=1& ... icSeller=1

Thanks for taking a look. After they've soaked in the Bay for a moment they'll most likely make their way to my AAPK store, probable after Thanksgiving.

SwedgeHead wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 6:20 pm Something like this ?
and in case you are wondering, the upsidedown emblem and bail end is correct, the (original) 1911-12 BSA handbook ad got it wrong

ScoutKnives wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 6:55 pm Nice early collection .
The ad is good , I have seen enough of the first version 4 blade with the extra large bail on the main blade side to believe they made a few of them that way .
I have one in my collection .

Mike

SwedgeHead wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 6:20 pm Something like this ?
and in case you are wondering, the upsidedown emblem and bail end is correct, the (original) 1911-12 BSA handbook ad got it wrong

SwedgeHead wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 5:34 pm

ScoutKnives wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 6:55 pm Nice early collection .
The ad is good , I have seen enough of the first version 4 blade with the extra large bail on the main blade side to believe they made a few of them that way .
I have one in my collection .

Mike

SwedgeHead wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 6:20 pm Something like this ?
and in case you are wondering, the upsidedown emblem and bail end is correct, the (original) 1911-12 BSA handbook ad got it wrong

I'd be curious on this. I did quite a lot of research and leaned on some expert videos and docs to confirm the configuration of the very 1st edition BSA pocket, and from all I found the emblem and bail config I show is correct. I would imagine anything else is a later edition, even if later may have been weeks or months. But I also know there is room for error here, still I wouldn't imagine two versions of the very 1st edition.

always curious

bestgear wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 6:23 pm The New York Knife Company began producing the only official Boy Scout knife in 1911,a monopoly the company held until 1922. By 1913 the number of people employed by the company dropped to 327 individuals, which is a decrease of 63 people from 1905; the company was in trouble. The workforce was composed of 275 adult males, 41 adult females, 8 children between the ages of 14 and 16, and 3 office employees. After it lost the monopoly on the production of the Boy Scout knives, the New York Knife Company could no longer compete successfully with the more modern knife producing factories and it was out of business in 1931.

The company was in a decline in 1911 and never pulled out. I suspect that management oversight and quality control were an issue and that on the same day some BSA knives were produced with the bail on the left and some with the bail on the right for no particular reason other than the production line they were being made on.

One of those Scout knife mysteries that keep us digging deeper and deeper

Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2024 6:44 pmThe Occams Razor explanation