Posts from 3/30/13
Joe, Ron and Tune:
Very interesting thread. Started me thinking and looking at similar knives. On the attached photo I tried to pick several brown button model 1's from the same general era. I always thought it was a given that if the sheath was marked with Randall on the back it was a Johnson. Now, after looking at these I'm not so sure. See if you can guess what sheath is a Heiser, what is a Johnson and what is the bottom sheath?
I'll show the back sides in a little bit.
Gary Clinton
From the same day:
Nice to see you posting, Gary. Tough one, even if you had posted a pic of the backsides! From the top: Four Heisers, a JRB and I'll go with Tunes guess of a Stockman for the last.
I'll take a shot Gary.
Starting at the top...
#1 JRB
#2, #3,  Heiser
#5 JRB
#6 Stockman
So it seems Ron was in agreement in the difference in appearance of at least the one sheath (#5) that is like the original 1-8 sheath that started this discussion. Not sure why when I posted that sheath his opinion had changed from when Gary Clinton posted these.
Mitchell was right on, at least with sheath #5. Different die cut. Look at the toe of the sheath compared to the others. Stitching looks different.
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