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.
Marbles tang stamps.
Dating the american imperial knives produced between 1916 and 1988 is relatively simple.
The tang stamp on the back of the blades reads airdi 150 does anyone know what that stands for.
The first stamps used are the small marbles stamp from 1911 to around 1913.
These 7 and 8 inch knives are what i consider to be ww 2 fighting knives.
This is not 1095 would it then be either 420 or 440 stainless or d2.
Can you tell me by the spacers if they are pre transition.
They all say marbles gladstone mi usa on the left side of the tang.
In 1985 the company became the imperial schrade corporation.
It was about this time that the knife tang stamping changed to marbles glasdstone mich.
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Bought myself several gifts on that trip this deer skinner was one of them.
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.
The 2 line stamps on the 7 and 8 inch blade started in 1918 till the end of ww 2.
Then they used the large marbles stamp from around 1914 to 1915.
In 2004 imperial schrade s new york manufacturing plant closed and all production shifted overseas.
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