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It's not news that one of Tony Bose's English Teardrop Jacks was used by James Spader in the movie Lincoln. Although it was a very small part of the movie and was very hard to see that it was one of Tony's knives, it was definitely one of Tony's knives because I know the back story.
James became very interested in Tony's knives after a chance meeting with a friend of Tonys at a knife show in New York several years ago and subsequently struck up a friendship with Tony. When the Lincoln movie came up and James was developing his character, he suggested maybe he would be able to fit a knife into one of the scenes he would be doing. James asked Tony if he could make a period relevant knife that he could use in the movie and it was the English Teardrop Jack. After it was made and sent to James, it was OK'd by the appropriate props people and used in the movie. James carrys and uses that knife and other T.Bose knives regularly.
Here's an image I shot of James and Tony whittling on the back porch in Wilfred a number of years back.
I don't know if it's proper forum etiquette for me to answer my own questions, but I was intrigued by the photo of Gary Powers' pack. (Probably part of my interest is my occasional, but almost lifelong, interest in JFK assassination conspiracy stuff, and a standard claim of many conspiracy buffs is a link between Oswald and the downing of Powers' U2.) Anyway, I did some Googley stuff and found a site that claims Powers' SAK is a Wenger. Here's a link:
http://www.e-webtechnologies.com/sak/Wenger_Swiss_Army_Knife_-_Spy_Equipment.pdf
And I found another photo of some of the pilot's gear that includes a fixed blade knife:
https://twitter.com/beschlossdc/status/427963652193284096
I haven't found anyone (besides me) who thinks they see another traditional folder below and to the right of the SAK in the photo Ted posted earlier.
- GT
; guess I'm not much of a TV guy anymore. But it sounds like I should find a way to watch it; lots of rave reviews here.
Politician as a human-being, an alien concept for the last 30 years..... Must've been a CASE Texas Jack what?
I tried to find out if Ike really carried a #63 pattern and what I discovered is that I think someone not familiar with the Case numbering system and many years prior to the internet and vast amounts of information at our finger tips misinterpreted and reported what Ike really carried. I found two of his knives both are #6333 the Case #33 small stockman, I am guessing who ever reported Ike's knife most likely was not a knife nut, said it's a small pen knife generically speaking how most would refer to any small knife and it has a #63 on the tang, but what Ike really carried was the Case #33 small stockman and Case's system the 6 being jigged handle and the 3 being 3 blades. I read somewhere during Parker years Case reintroduced the #63 as the Eisenhower pattern but can't seem to find that info so....?
I did read that he did give away the #63 what the is known as the Eisenhower so it is possibly just a coincidence that the prefix to his stockman is 63 and the knife he eventually would giveaway is the pattern #63, so there is a connection to the #63 pattern.
"During the late 1950s, President Dwight D. Eisenhower arranged a three-day fishing trip to Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island. He had five sailors convert a PT boat into a fishing vessel. At some point during the trip, the President gave each of the five sailors an 08263 Eisenhower pattern, handled in mother of pearl."
So as there are no rules for knife nuts, I'm sure Ike had more than one knife, perhaps he carried it latter in life after he started to gift the patten but here are some pics of Ike's knives.
Pete
