Codger_64
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I know that for most of you, the plethora of Schrade Cut Co, Schrade Walden, Schrade, Imperial, Kingston and Ulster pocketknives and even folding hunters are your first love and the focus of your collections. But for some of us the fixed blade hunting knives are the focus. I dearly love seeing all of the beautiful knives you guys bring here for our viewing pleasure, but I also miss seeing the hunting knives.
I don't have that many really early Schrade hunting knives. It seems that the Camillus affiliated knives of this genre are easier to find. Some of mine go back to the 1930's, and if you count the imported A. Kastor brandings, back to the early 1900's. Schrade Walden era hunting knives are much easier to find. I have a yet-unproven thory that prior to WWII, Schrade Cut Co made few if any hunting knives. They had them made for them by some other maker. From the examples I have seen, Kinfolks is one suspect. I know they made them for Cattaraugus and Case, as well as their own Kinfolks and Jean Case brandings.
Here ia a Schrade Cut Co hunting knife #365.
And this is a Kingston hunting knife.
Anyone have a idea who actually made these? Do you have other examples?
I don't have that many really early Schrade hunting knives. It seems that the Camillus affiliated knives of this genre are easier to find. Some of mine go back to the 1930's, and if you count the imported A. Kastor brandings, back to the early 1900's. Schrade Walden era hunting knives are much easier to find. I have a yet-unproven thory that prior to WWII, Schrade Cut Co made few if any hunting knives. They had them made for them by some other maker. From the examples I have seen, Kinfolks is one suspect. I know they made them for Cattaraugus and Case, as well as their own Kinfolks and Jean Case brandings.
Here ia a Schrade Cut Co hunting knife #365.
And this is a Kingston hunting knife.
Anyone have a idea who actually made these? Do you have other examples?
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