Let's see your Scout/Camp knives

[Campbellclanman]

I just LOVE those Spiral New York Laminated Punches

 

[sf fanatic]

One big knife. Size wise on par with my #98 Texas Whittler . View attachment 1603640

 

[mbkr]

One big knife. Size wise on par with my #98 Texas Whittler . View attachment 1603640

Yeah those are definitely a sheath knife as opposed to a pocket knife
I posted some comparison pics with a Buck 110 back in post #1750.

 

[Modoc ED]

 

[Thomas Linton]

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Brand? I have an old Scrade "sak," but it looks different.

 

[Thomas Linton]

For the record. From the website of the New York State Museum:

"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.

A notation on the 1924 Sanborn Insurance Map states the factory was not in operation, and the only employees were two night watchmen, indicating the factory may have had to shut down for short periods of time and had to temporarily lay off its workers.

The condition of the company continued to worsen, especially after the 1929 stock market crash. The New York Knife Company factory continued to operate for parts of two more years before it was finally forced to shut down its operation for good in 1931."

 

[screened porch]

Brand? I have an old Scrade "sak," but it looks different.

I think it's a Victorinox.

 

[afishhunter]

Brand? I have an old Scrade "sak," but it looks different.

I think it's a Victorinox.

Looks like one that Coleman and Coghlan's used to sell, to me.
I remember identical knives in blister packs in the camping gear department at Wally's, under both brands.
Made by Wenger, perhaps?

 

[screened porch]

It's a Vic-style can-opener, though?
I thought I had the identical teepee on mine from Basel in 1967, but mine's a tent. Elinox stamped on one side and Victorinox on the other. (Rare transitional piece worth millions (don't get any ideas; it's kept in the safe deposit box).
Different shield, too, I see.

BUt I do have the same teepeee, with worn prongs.

 

[Rich S]

Both are Victorinox, just different eras.
Rich

 

[buckthorn]

I have an actual Schrade, camping style knife with red scales. It was my father's but it's been beaten up, probably in part because my brother stored it in the bottom of his backpack during a trip to Europe late 1960's.

 

[Rich S]

Yes, ISC (Imperial Schrade Co) made very good SAK copies in Germany. I have several of them.



Rich

 

[buckthorn]

Yes, ISC (Imperial Schrade Co) made very good SAK copies in Germany. I have several of them.



Rich

Mine is older and almost certainly made in New York, possibly pre-Ellenville. If it would be of interest, please say so and I'll dig it out and confirm or clarify.

 

[Rich S]

Would like to see it. Schrade did make some camper/scout knives in U.S. before the ISC Century line.
I've seen one in red scales with crown emblem.
Rich

 

[Thomas Linton]

Now I MUST find mine.
. . .

Imperial U
S
Prov. R I A

"Matterhorn" - seven tools, inclufing nthree blades and corkscrew

Conventional post WWII can opener

On some, the smallest blade is a pen, instead of the hurmp-backed spey on mine.

Can't get the "S" to stay between the "U" and the "A"

 

[mbkr]

Now I MUST find mine.
. . .

Imperial U
S
Prov. R I A

"Matterhorn" - seven tools, inclufing nthree blades and corkscrew

Conventional post WWII can opener

On some, the smallest blade is a pen, instead of the hurmp-backed spey on mine.

Must of been a tough cork

 

[screened porch]

I have a Matterhorn and a Mountain Guide, one Imperial and one Colonial. The same knife, as I recall.

 

[buckthorn]

Would like to see it. Schrade did make some camper/scout knives in U.S. before the ISC Century line.
I've seen one in red scales with crown emblem.
Rich

Will gladly do that. May be a couple of days.

 

[Thomas Linton]

Must of been a tough cork View attachment 1605420

When you get a knife at an estate sale, its story may be a mystery, as here.

 

[rdave]