Thread: Not a razor but a very interesting old knife

Originally Posted by Wullie

Thaeris's knife is another lock black. A VERY nice old folding dirk. Not a switch blade or auto. That style of lock back was popular in the late 1800's and through the teens. Wostenholm made tons of them and you see them on ebay infrequently and they usually bring good money.

I wish it was !

I'm really keen on those blades, and I'm hopelessly tracking 'em. I'm not the only one on the case, and they often goes for far more than 1000$....

Originally Posted by Wullie

Hoosiers knife looks like, a knife. Old lock back. The steel/nickel silver pin through the bolster was and still is a German style of pinning up a pocket knife. Knife might have been re-pinned at some point in time. I'm somewhat inclined to think that is the case as the pin appears to sit proud of the bolsters. Not familiar with the stamp, but you might check over at britishblades.com. Those lads are up to snuff on English cutlery.

Thaeris's knife is another lock black. A VERY nice old folding dirk. Not a switch blade or auto. That style of lock back was popular in the late 1800's and through the teens. Wostenholm made tons of them and you see them on ebay infrequently and they usually bring good money.

The bartender's knife is VERY nice.

Thank you for the clarification there! It's easy for me to sound like I know what I'm talking about, and with knives... Well, it's all a -- wait for it ---

STAB IN THE DARK!

Oh, yes. It's like humor, except it died and someone stuffed it, but it wasn't nice enough to put on display and now it's sitting in the storage room getting eaten by beetles.


Seriously, I don't know much about knives and I'm VERY grateful for the correction!

Here ya go Jimmy,

ebony handled version of that pretty you posted.

No rooster nutters in my pile. but I have what's left of a Taylor's "sportsman's knife"




AND here's a REALLY RARE ONE!!! I don't show it to just ANYBODY ya understand......... ( unless I want to make 'em die laughing )

These old knives particularly the ones with blades and tools that are not Giant and make for noble EDC candidates are really of primary interest to me. I enjoy seeing what Jimmy and Wullie have posted. I believe the scales on my bartender knife is in fact horn rather than tortoise, a good quality horn but horn nonetheless.

I carry a Challenge Cutlery "tear drop" jack with ebony scales every day. I too like the oldies. I'm down to around 100 or so of various configurations, but the old spear blades and straight pulls really wind my watch.

Here's an interesting old piece of history. It's a rope knife made by Miller Brothers, Meriden, Conn.


It came in with a lot of razors that I bought. It was advertised as a razor and I bought the lot because of the knife. Got three good razors and this thing for about a quarter of what the knives alone usually sell for. I've wanted one for a long time, but was too cheap to pay the going rate.

It has no point by design. Admiralty law before and after the turn of the 20th century forbade sailors from carrying a knife with a point. It's a monster of a blade. It's almost a 1/4" thick at the spine. Reason being is that it was made to be able to be driven through a manilla line with a belaying pin.

This will give you an idea of its size.


It's a hand full.

Another interesting and pretty scarce blade is this ugly thing.


Made by Chris Wolf who later became the manager of Schatt & Morgan in the 20's. These things were strictly utilitarian. Oak, scales, iron bolsters, and no nail nick and delightfully crude. The spring in the damn thing would probably suffice for a small car. It will take a finger off if you get one it when it's closing. Sear & Roebuck sold 'em in the teens for 25 cents.

I would LOVE to see the entire collection! Fantastic!

I'm glad to introduce you my latest find :

An old Renoult à Rouen (my birth city !!!) in MOP, with a look-a-like of a Sheffield knife

(currently in business with a piece of Coppa di Corsica, please not disturb)

BEAUTIFUL!!

I hope that meat isn't so tough that you had to use that hammer to stick that pretty knife in it.

No, there were a pining issue, the blade wasn't stable enough, so I un-pin it, then I re-pin it like a straight





It was quite tough but I succeed !

More pictures of the "before"





I think the inlay (in mosaic) represent a violet, a flower that was traditionally used as a sign of recognition of Bonapartists in the Empire.

There is also an endemic specie of violet near Rouen called "Pensée de Rouen"

The knife is smaller than what I'm used to, but very efficient blade, and I'm quite fond of it

WOW, it's even prettier than I thought. That scales are works of art.

The "milled" liners are a nice touch as well.

Interesting about the violet and the Bonapartists. That would date the knife to the early 1800's?

It is a beautiful piece of history and the cutler's art.