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.