Thread: Weird pocket knife - ID help

Melon knife for sure. A Dr.'s knife has a flat squared end to help crush pills and the blade is not usually so long.

Will N.

Awesome. I'll clean it up and eat some fruit with it then. The tang stamp says 'Linder & Co, Solingen, Germany'.

Are these things common? I've never seen, nor heard of one. Cool thing about it is it still has my gramp's fingerprints on it (those brown smudges you see in the pictures).

Very common,most had advertising on them.

Awesome, thanks much guys! Appreciate it!

Originally Posted by toadq5

Awesome. I'll clean it up and eat some fruit with it then. The tang stamp says 'Linder & Co, Solingen, Germany'.

Are these things common? I've never seen, nor heard of one. Cool thing about it is it still has my gramp's fingerprints on it (those brown smudges you see in the pictures).

That type of knife is relatively common. Most I've seen had some type of advertising on the scales such as yours does.

Linder is still in business and they also made razors "back in the day".

Linder knives have been made in Germany for more than 100 years. They have been making knives since 1870. Solingen City Archives show that Carl Wilhelm Linder started his workshop in a little hamlet named Bech, now part of Solingen, Germany.

His youngest son, Carl, was born in 1869 and carried on his father's tradition of fine knife making. In 1903 Carl Linder moved to a larger location, as they had outgrown their tiny workshop.

In 1918 Linder began to export their knives. In 1937, after Carl Linder's death, the company was sold to Paul Rosenkaimer, a knife maker who had been part of Solingen history for a very long time. He chose to call the company "Carl Liner Nachf."

In German, the word Nachfolger means "successor," and the company is still officially known as Carl Linder Nachf.

In March of 1985 Paul Rosenkaimer died and his son Siegfried Rosenkaimer became the proprietor. If you e-mail or call Linder you can still get a friendly response from Siegfried Rosenkaimer or his son Stephan.

World Knives: Knives of Solingen, Germany

Neat piece of family history.

I have one , too ! My tang is stamped Ulster , U.S.A. , and it doesn't have bolsters .

Awesome, yours is in great shape dave! I just took some Flitz to mine last night to get a good look at what shape it was in... and it's pretty rough. Tons of pitting, but at least none on the very edge. I'll clean it up sometime, just not the highest on my list right now. Dang rust!!

Originally Posted by toadq5

Awesome, yours is in great shape dave! I just took some Flitz to mine last night to get a good look at what shape it was in... and it's pretty rough. Tons of pitting, but at least none on the very edge. I'll clean it up sometime, just not the highest on my list right now. Dang rust!!

Thanks ! It's not too bad . It's stainless so no rust , but someone tried to sharpen it up with a dremel , and scarred the blade up a little . I bought mine at a flea market , back in the '80s . I forget what I paid , but it wasn't much .

Originally Posted by dave5225

I have one , too ! My tang is stamped Ulster , U.S.A. , and it doesn't have bolsters .

Ulster Knife Co has a very interesting history. They were finally taken over by Schrade in the 50's if I recall correctly.
http://www.wawarsing.net/22/COPDF/409-17-Forward2.pdf

I've got a couple of old Ulsters, I think. I KNOW I've got a 10th Mtn Div knife.


Tang stamp is different as this was made in WWII


FYI, the WWII 10th Mtn Div later became the US Army Special Forces.

This knife had a Phillips screw driver blade so the boys cold tighten and loosen their ski bindings. They're kind of scarce these days, but you still see enough of them on ebay that I wouldn't exactly think of them as "rare".

Neat knife Wullie!! Love seeing old military knives. They're always so interesting. Thanks for those pics guys, really neat stuff.