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You should check with the SF Museum Gift Shop. They were running the initial ordering and issuing at that time. Betty A. was in charge. My knowledge is primarily in the area of individual purchases, I have limited info on the process of the free issued knives.
I believe that the Gift Shop did the paperwork, accountability and procurement of the knives as orders came in relatively small batches of a dozen at he time, more or less, being bought by the Gift Shop from TSSI as the initial vendor providing ordering and issuing. The knives eventually were procured directly from CRK.
Later, the price of the knives were held steady as production costs increased and to my knowledge, CRK has never made any money from the project. In fact, I strongly believe that they lost money on every knife they made for the program. To their credit , I have never heard them complain about the financial losses associated with making the knives.
Incidentally, there are markings on the Yarborough blade that prevent the remarking and renumbering of the GB knives and counterfeiting them.
TR
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How many Yarborough knives were made?
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