A look at todays catch

[fast14riot]

Well I went for a walk today, and living in the middle of the cities historic shopping district I am in no shortage of antique/consignment stores. Todays catch totals 3 vintage slip joints and one modern flipper (strange that I found it in an antique store). To stay on track, I'll leave the tactical knife out of this post. I got a Robert Klass Kissing Crane in ebony with "lots of character," a Western brand that has almost every last inch of life taken from it and what looks like jigged bone, and lastly a Gottlieb Hammesfahr in actually pretty good shape. It has MOP scales, blades are good, and shows moderate wear. This last one is the nicest of the bunch, and having paid only very little for all three, I feel ok about the others being in such poor condition.

Now for the pics...

Robert Klaas

Western

Stamp says "442"

Gottlieb Hammesfahr

Now I don't know the names of patterns very well, sometimes it seems the handle dictates the pattern name and other times the blade(s) and even yet the combo of the two can change things. So if you could help fill in the blanks for me that would be great. I almost feel bad about buying the western and R.Klaas but I would of felt worse if they just got thrown in the trash. I took only limited pics right now (mostly for records keeping), but if anyone wants to see better pics let me know an I will try to get some.


Cheers
-Xander

 

[DennisStrickland]

that old pearl may be pre 1890 according to to stamp. certainly an interesting find. thanks for the pics.---dennis

 

[Pipeman]

That is a Sweet old pearl pen, Very nice find. Congrats

Regards

Robin

 

[TLARbb]

That Kissing Crane has had a bench grinder taken to it. That makes me shudder when I see that; they ground a lot of life out of that knife and it was a really nice one. Still okay and I would have bought it too. It's really interesting what you can find sometimes. - Ed J

 

[fast14riot]

Dennis, Robin - that pearl knife is deffinetly my favorite of the bunch, and may be my new favorite all together! I haven't done much research on it yet, but will today. I will take better pics and ask Bernard and the folks with more knowledge than me to help.

Ed J - yeah some evil kid decided to torture this pretty old knife by putting both blades to the grinding wheel. The awl is untouched. I bought it because the F/F of the handle was simply too nice to pass up. The ebony is smooth, seamless fit on the shield, pins nd bolsters fit like a glove. I also didn't own a single ebony knife before this, so that's another reason.

The Western had suffered a similar fate at one time, as well. The main blade was ground down to a tooth pick! I decided to straighten the edge up and sharpen it, it will make a nice little whittlin' knife.

All in all I am happy with this haul, especially since all three were had for $12.00! As in $12 total, $4 each! The merchant had about 15 knives, all were pretty much beat to hell, but I may go back to check on a few more he had.


-Cheers

-Xander