WHEN DID SCHRADE MAKE ITS' FIRST "OLD TIMER". Please show them.

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I have some Old Timers in my collection like most on this forum. However, I do not know their early history.
When was the first Old Timer made ? What was the first modle ? Show your Old Timers you have put away ! Was there a 1OT ?
 
in looking at the price lists there is a gap between 1955 and 1961. the '55 price list did not show any OT's while the '61 had them starting with the much sought after 2OT and the 8 OT. these were the only two OT's shown. if i were guessing the 8 OT would have 17? notches on the match strike nail pull?
 
Here's a good bit of research on the first Old Timers, and lists the 2OT in 1959 as the first production Old Timer knife. (there never was a 1OT)

http://www.collectors-of-schrades-r.us/articles/Ulster.pdf

Others' research has indicated production actually began in 1958, the reason Taylor Brands used 2008 as the 50th Anniversary year. But Schrade themselves considered 1959 to be the first year, and released their 25th Anniversary Old Timer in 1984.
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...iversary-Knives-Show-em!/page2?highlight=1958
 
Show your Old Timers you have put away !
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I've had to add a couple more shelves to the cabinet since this picture was taken.
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A local Scout museum hosted a display from my collection some years ago.
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I'm way behind in photographing the collection, but here are a few interesting example.
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loved the article on Ulster and Schrade Walden. i wonder why there is not price list from 1956 to 1960? would have made the Schrade portion of the OT really easy, but then again we would have missed out on that nice article about the interface of Ulster and Schrade and the Old Timer beginning.
 
Not sure if this was the first, and its not a Schrade, but it is my oldest Old Timer, bone handles, milled liners.







 
delmas2nd said:
in looking at the price lists there is a gap between 1955 and 1961. the '55 price list did not show any OT's while the '61 had them starting with the much sought after 2OT and the 8 OT. these were the only two OT's shown. if i were guessing the 8 OT would have 17? notches on the match strike nail pull?
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Count em Ken



 
Hal, That’s a nice old 8OT, the box looks old too.
I will swop you for a new 8OT in a unopened box.
However, I will not hold my breath wile you take up my kind offer.
Thank You for showing you knives… Ken
 
here is a question, when did the match strike change it number of knobs or remove them altogether? one is 18 the second one is 16 and the later ones are a normal nail pull. i think i remember a thread about that but then again i have CRS.
 
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Bob W.- That is indeed a mighty fine selection/collection of Schrades. I am almost halfway there, but no display case.
 
bdt0307 said:
Bob W.- That is indeed a mighty fine selection/collection of Schrades.
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Well thanks. My very first knife was a 34OT, given to me by my grandfather before I was even old enough to use a knife. I was never interested in collecting them though, because they were so common, until the company went out of business in 2004. So I've been collecting them almost ten years and have roughly 130 different OT models and variations.

I am almost halfway there, but no display case.
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My parents bought the case at a department store sale some time in the 1980s. They do show up for sale from time to time, but the freight would be very expensive.
 
thank you very much. clearly shows the 2OT in '59 followed by the addition of the 8OT in '60. the answer is always here it seems somewhere.
 
delmas2nd said:
thank you very much. clearly shows the 2OT in '59 followed by the addition of the 8OT in '60. the answer is always here it seems somewhere.
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Yes, and access to those very price lists and catalogs have been posted on this forum dozens and dozens of times over the years since I joined. You can easily bookmark them in your browser, as well as download them to your computer. I've used them for at least 4 or 5 years.

http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/schrade_knives/index.php
This is another good link to years of mfg for most Schrade USA patterns. Old Timers, Uncle Henry, the knives that preceded them, and even the fixed blades. There is info to many of the modern knives they made prior to closing too.

Many thanks to Larry and Dale for all of their hard work providing us with great information.
 
i looked for the aforementioned price list in the "collector of Schrades R us stuff which has been a good tool over the years. curiously and is why i ask the question those years are absent from the price lists it contains.
 
And well done again Larry. The 1959 shows the 2OT for $27.00 a dozen, with it and the 8OT both for the same price in 1960, and again in 1961. They dropped the 2OT in 1962, and the price held at $24.00 until 1966, when they bumped the 8OT to $30.00 for a dozen.
 
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