W.SCAGEL / HANDMADE (kris) //V.L.&A./ CHICAGO hunting knife, HEISER 247 sheath
Stout forged Scagel hunting knife, stag slab handles, brass guard and rivets. About 12 inches long overall.

Knife is lightly worn with good overall patina, except on cutting edge which is newly sharpened.

Sheath marked HEISER HHH DENVER 247.

































The sheath is a Heiser Model No. 247 custom made to fit this knife.








Hunting knife by WILLIAM WALES SCAGEL, Muskegon - Fruitport MI

Made for and sold by VON LENGERKE & ANTOINE, Chicago IL

with sheath made for it by The HERMAN H. HEISER Co., Denver CO

    "I have been making knives for A. & F. Co., N. Y. [Abercrombie & Fitch], V. L. & A., Chicago [Von Lengerke & Antoine], P. A. Co., San Francisco [Pacific Arms Corporation], Alcock Late & Westwood, Toronto, also their house in London, England, for this past 34 years, and in all the hundreds of knives I have made there have been no two alike. I have several private customers all over the world."

        Letter from W. W. Scagel to W. D. Randall, 9 September 1937 (excerpt, courtesy Randall Made Knives).



        From: 1935 V. L. & A. Catalog, also shown in 1936, 1937, 1938. Not shown in 1939, 1940, 1941. Courtesy Mark Newcomer.








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