Question About a Boker Tree Brand Congress knife

[Guest FiddleDog]

My wife's Grandfather passed away the Tuesday before Christmas - (he was loved, and will be missed.). I was given one of his pocket knives, and my Aunt believes that his father may have given him that knife. It is a Boker Tree Brand knife, and looks to be a Congress Whittler (4 blades). I can barely make out the markings on the blade, but I can see that it has Boker USA on the 2nd longest blade and on the other side there appears to be a tree (matching the medallion on the handle) with the numbers 64 on the left and 84 on the right. I was wondering if anyone here knew of a way to date this knife. It is precious to me regardless, but it would make me smile if it had been passed down to him from his father.

[leroy]

Fiddle:___________

Sorry to hear of your loss. Grandfathers are very special. I sure miss mine. RE: Your Boker. I'm an old Boker affectanado and have been since boyhood (...which has been a long time, im 65...). When i was a boy the Boker was well known and the same knife your described was available then. There were two flavors of 'em. The first was the "German Tree Brand" made in soligen, germany. The second was the one that your grandfather had; the "American Boker (...or USA...) Tree Brand. They were and are excellent knives. I've carried them off and on for years and still have a few in my collection. Boker was a real player in the quality knife business in those days. There are those who believe that the Boker Tree Brand was a better quality knife than the legendary Case (...i happen to be one of those folks....). Most likely it is a bone handled carbon steel knife. Boker was making and marketing these great old knives when i was a 12 or so year old boy; and had been doing so for many years before then. That would date them to at least 1958 (...i was born in 1946...).

Enjoy your new treasure!!

leroy