Payroll records show earnings of $4 to $6 a week. 1904: The Schrade brothers bring a third knife-making company to Walden. The workers provide their own tools and are issued the materials for ...

the Schrade Cutlery Co., which was founded in Walden in 1904, and the Imperial Knife Co., formed in 1916 in Providence, R.I. The mergers produced the Imperial Knife Associated Cos., ...

Bowie knife popularity has declined in recent days. Imperial Schrade hasn't produced them on a regular basis for decades. But they do dust off the pattern for special occasions, such as ...