Thread: An interesting find

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Fifty years ago I'd go into the hardware store and there would be the big Case display. Much larger than the one at that antique store. They had the ones with the really pretty bone and staghorn scales behind the glass. Fond memories.

I remember having to pick from the Imperial display right next to the Case one, the Uncle Henry one, even the Schrade case!
I finally saved-up to get a big Old-Timer with the hole at the end for a bit of leather lace with knots....
Lost THAT passing it up and down the pews on Sunday once.

It was a raid from the pulpit AND the choir, it was!
(Everyone's mom was in the choir right behind the preacher, watching us)

..... Nary a knife escaped!!

That sounds like a scene right out of a Mark Twain book. Your last name isn't Sawyer is it, Tom?

Originally Posted by Leatherstockiings

That sounds like a scene right out of a Mark Twain book. Your last name isn't Sawyer is it, Tom?

May as well have been. Spent some formative years in a small town. Was a hoot, as I recall!

Originally Posted by Wirm

John,.... here you have sharp rocks in a stick . It is a technology only few of us old timers understand.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Yes! And we LIKED them!

All I can say is That Rocks ! .........

I wonder if there was a famous knife maker back in the Caveman days. If they traded stuff to someone who was really skilled at making knives.

Absolutely! Just like today, every man needed a 'tooth'!

Party at UGG's Cave !!

I bought a 'no dot' Case knife display very similar to that one in 1973 from a sporting goods store that was moving. Just sold it off, piece by piece, last year. Still had the original per knife receipt. They appreciated admirably but I would probably have netted more in a mutual fund of some sort. No regrets as you can't fondle the mutual funds and I love Case knives.

Throwback Tuesday ;

048 pattern 'Dixie Switch', Farmer's Knife, Slim Trapper. Also a Canoe and a Toe Nail for good measure. TestedXX, Case XX, Case XX USA. No dot models. Green bones, Red bones and a Rogers Bone.

The old Case's are too pricey for me to collect. If I was to use them the way I use a knife, I would trash them anyway.
That is what I like about collecting razors instead. I can hone and use them and not hurt them one bit.

I got a Case Russlock every year for Christmas. Plenty 'Sunday' knives!