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Marbles tang stamps.
I came here to post my latest marbles usa canoe whittler thumbup.
The first stamps used are the small marbles stamp from 1911 to around 1913.
This is not 1095 would it then be either 420 or 440 stainless or d2.
After 1988 the imperial tang stamps were discontinued and replaced by the schrade name.
These 7 and 8 inch knives are what i consider to be ww 2 fighting knives.
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.
They all say marbles gladstone mi usa on the left side of the tang.
Usa many of marble s patents expired during the 1920 s and other manufactures began to capitalize upon his design.
In 2004 imperial schrade s new york manufacturing plant closed and all production shifted overseas.
In 1985 the company became the imperial schrade corporation.
Can you tell me by the spacers if they are pre transition.
Bought myself several gifts on that trip this deer skinner was one of them.
This is a 2002 italian jig bone i think i ve seen it referred to as a herringbone pattern in regards to the jigging.
Then they used the large marbles stamp from around 1914 to 1915.
It was about this time that the knife tang stamping changed to marbles glasdstone mich.
The tang stamp on the back of the blades reads airdi 150 does anyone know what that stands for.
Dating the american imperial knives produced between 1916 and 1988 is relatively simple.