70's Frontier Imperial 442R Rigid Blade with leather sheath

Vintage Frontier Imperial 442R- 6" Rigid Filet or camp blade.

Many people don’t realize the connection between Schrade knives and Imperial knives. Schrade Cut co. was bought out by Albert Baer in 1946 and joined by his brother Albert Baer. They also owned Imperial Knife co. and Ulster. After the 1973 name change from Schrade Walden To Schrade USA, in 1973 there were many old open stock knives dropped from Schade’s Production and new tooling was installed at the Schrade plant in Ellington N.Y. The Schrade Saga is a very long connect the dots puzzle. Being businessmen rather than just getting rid of the old tooling for the discontinued models,they sent it to the Imperial R.I. plant and started producing the Frontier knives and other higher quality knives. You see many Schrade blade patterns in the knives produced between 1975 and 1985 when they merged the 2 companies at the Ellington plant and unfortunately discontinued the better knives like the Frontier series.

• 9 7/8" OAL , 6"Blade High Carbon Steel full tang blade.
• Ol’ Ivory Delrin Handles with 3 nickel silver rivets.
• Premium Quality formed leather, friction fit sheath with plastic insert in sheath to protect it.

Knife and Sheath are in great condition with no signs of being used or carried. Produced from 1975 – 1985 and they were considered some of the highest quality production knives offered under the Schrade name. These (Rigid) filet knives are also great for camping and BBQ.

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