Bought myself several gifts on that trip this deer skinner was one of them.
Marbles tang stamps.
Then they used the large marbles stamp from around 1914 to 1915.
The last knife is a modern usa made marbles i bought at smkw while visiting gatlinburg tn with my wife after my return from oif in 2003.
After 1988 the imperial tang stamps were discontinued and replaced by the schrade name.
The first stamps used are the small marbles stamp from 1911 to around 1913.
In 2004 imperial schrade s new york manufacturing plant closed and all production shifted overseas.
In 1985 the company became the imperial schrade corporation.
I don t have a good picture of it except this one which only shows the blade in silhouette skinning a deer with one of my hunting.
The 2 line stamps on the 7 and 8 inch blade started in 1918 till the end of ww 2.
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Can you tell me by the spacers if they are pre transition.
It was about this time that the knife tang stamping changed to marbles glasdstone mich.
This is a 2002 italian jig bone i think i ve seen it referred to as a herringbone pattern in regards to the jigging.
Dating the american imperial knives produced between 1916 and 1988 is relatively simple.
I came here to post my latest marbles usa canoe whittler thumbup.
These 7 and 8 inch knives are what i consider to be ww 2 fighting knives.
The tang stamp on the back of the blades reads airdi 150 does anyone know what that stands for.
They all say marbles gladstone mi usa on the left side of the tang.