Pocket Knife

[Cantstopdigging]

Hello Forum,

I found what I think is a early 1900s Boy Scout Knife. Thanks for looking!

 

[Hughett]

That is such a fun find.

 

[cambria09]

Hello Cantstopdigging. Nice one! Do the parts still move?

Thanks for the post and Good Luck out there. C9

 

[Cantstopdigging]

Hello Cambria! Yes! I worked on it and finally got all parts to move.

 

[Reanm8er]

Some lad's pride and joy!

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice little pocket knife.

 

[gunsil]

That is not early 1900s, it is no older than the 1950s. One can tell by the can opener which is a newer type. Also all the early 1900s BSA knives had bone handles, not plastic as the OP knife has.

 

[islamoradamark]

nice knife soak that rascal in some oil put a edge on it and you will be in business

 

[Digger RJ]

Nice!!! Congrats!!!

 

[Cantstopdigging]

Thanks Gunsil for your comments. I really don't know the age. I was simply doing a google search on the image, and found what looked like mine.

 

[Hawks88]

That’s a cool find. Congrats

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Cool find!

 

[Cantstopdigging]

It would be cool to know the name of the company that manufactured this knife, and the age.

 

[Whyme]

Pretty cool little knife! Congrats!

 

[gilmerman]

We are all probably Scouts at one time, like the find of a better time. Thanks

 

[dts52]

I can't even guess the number of those lost by our troop members over the years... They were a cherished possession, before being allowed to possess a knife, a scout had to earn their chip? chit? I can't remember, something like that. Earned after demonstrating proper handling of a pocket knife and forfeited for misuse of same. If memory serves me, even Silly Putty would have presented a danger in our hands! I got to hunt a scout camp a few years ago and found SIX nearly new knives. They were more like Crocodile Dundee knives than the ones we carried as scouts, but then we used to bring .22s on our camp outs. Times have certainly changed.
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dts

 

[against the wind]

Congratulations on the knife.
Was it a dug find?

 

[gunsil]

The knife was made by Imperial, 1950s-1960s era. After WW2 BSA gave rights to produce official BSA knives to companies who made cheaper quality knives like Imperial from RI. Before WW2 BSA had their knives made by some of the finest knife companies like Remington, New York Knife Co, and Ulster. Those knives were all better quality than any made after WW2 and they all had genuine bone handle scales. The post war BSA knives by Imperial, Camillus, and Ulster have plastic handle scales. Ulster had been bought by Imperial/Schrade and no longer made the same quality as they did before the war. A couple of years ago I went to an official BSA store to buy a new Cub Scout knife for a nephew, and found that they were all made in CHINA. I was very disappointed with the BSA organization for having their knives made overseas now.

 

[Steve in PA]

That is not early 1900s, it is no older than the 1950s. One can tell by the can opener which is a newer type. Also all the early 1900s BSA knives had bone handles, not plastic as the OP knife has.

Yes I still have one I had when I was a kid, and I was born in 1957.

 

[dts52]

The knife was made by Imperial, 1950s-1960s era. After WW2 BSA gave rights to produce official BSA knives to companies who made cheaper quality knives like Imperial from RI. Before WW2 BSA had their knives made by some of the finest knife companies like Remington, New York Knife Co, and Ulster. Those knives were all better quality than any made after WW2 and they all had genuine bone handle scales. The post war BSA knives by Imperial, Camillus, and Ulster have plastic handle scales. Ulster had been bought by Imperial/Schrade and no longer made the same quality as they did before the war. A couple of years ago I went to an official BSA store to buy a new Cub Scout knife for a nephew, and found that they were all made in CHINA. I was very disappointed with the BSA organization for having their knives made overseas now.

I agree that BSA knives should be manufactured in the US. There are American options, Buck knives comes to mind.
HH
dts