A Traditional Knife With A Related Traditional Item

[Old Engineer]

Back in December we were Antiquing and I was able to find a couple of vintage folders and also a Brass Ball that are on a horse harness hames .

Pictured here with other knives is what I did with the last Brass ball hames that I had found and used last year .


That cane is now stored in Southeast Tennessee with my good friend Half/Stop

Harry

 

[Cambertree]

Good idea for a thread theme, Jake - I'm sure we'll see a lot of interesting pics and posts here. That piece of Titusville Marsh gauge pole and associated advertising is a nice find, my friend.

I've enjoyed reading all the posts, so far.

Here's some pics I posted a couple years back in another thread.

A TL-29 with my grandfather's field notebook from WWII. He was a combat engineer in the Australian Army.

The next photo has the TL-29 on a map of Labuan Island in Borneo - a Japanese held oilfield at the time.

The date of the map (24th April 1945) is about a month before the Allied amphibious invasions of Borneo were launched, so the intelligence information written in red ink was likely furnished by the Australian Service Reconnaissance Department (SRD) - which was a cover for SOA (Special Operations Australia) - who were performing clandestine operations in Borneo at that time.

 

[JohnDF]

Templar Knife and antique Viking Warrior statue... My wife is Norwegian

 

[Half/Stop]

Back in December we were Antiquing and I was able to find a couple of vintage folders and also a Brass Ball that are on a horse harness hames .

Pictured here with other knives is what I did with the last Brass ball hames that I had found and used last year .


That cane is now stored in Southeast Tennessee with my good friend Half/Stop

Harry

Yes it most definitely is my friend!

 

[Lansky1]

Here's a couple of my fave's ... a Lie Nielsen, the GEC of bench planes and my fave Case design --->

 

[Atiger]

Or...

 

[JohnDF]

From my Grandpa's Hotel, Restaurant, and Bar... Old style knife and old style advertisement.

 

[ISKRA]

This knife used to be my grandma's, she gave it to me about a year ago or so. I remember her using it sometimes when I was a kid. In spring we'd go gather the still small dandelion. Makes a great salad. The knife isn't marked in any way, so I have no idea where or when it was made, but I assume somewhere in the Eastern Block sometime around the 70s or 80s. The book is from 1925 and belonged to her mother. The coin is from the same interbellum period of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

 

[Old Hunter]

US Army Wireman's toolset, WW-II & Korean War era. Camillus TL-29 & Boker USA Sidecutters, unmarked leather pouch. OH

 

[LastRodeo]

I stopped at an antique shop yesterday on my way to lunch as there wasn’t much else to do with a negative wind chill. I came across this section of a Marsh Gauge Pole, from Titusville, PA.

I didn’t know exactly what it was but a quick search revealed the poles were roughly 12 ft. long and made from hard maple. They were used to measure the depth inside railroad oil tank cars, mostly in the early half of the 1900’s. Not sure why they didn’t cut it right but it’s a little short on that 1st inch lol.

I thought it was a pretty cool antique item to pair with the knives made in Titusville and it wasn't expensive at all. I searched online and found this ad from an oil business newsletter/pamphlet.

Feel free to share other knives and antique type items that came from the same area.

The end of the measuring stick wears away during many years of use. The first inch was whole at one time.

 

[AndreLinoge]

1890s Prussian Charles Daly, Diamond Grade heavy ten, full sidelock and Walden Knife Company.View attachment 1063145

Aw man.. would love to blast some grouse with that ol time machine.. tell me you still let it shred clays, at least!
Low speed black powder shot clusters need better aiming, but oh man do they tend to stay together, and smacking clay into powder is pretty gratifying..

Wonder how many dinner birds got bagged off that bead...
Absolutely beautiful.

 

[Jsega51]

The end of the measuring stick wears away during many years of use. The first inch was whole at one time.

I would have assumed that but if you notice, it’s cut beyond the 12” mark also. See the large “8”? That’s the 8 foot mark out of a total 12’ pole so this wasn’t at the bottom. I wonder why the pole wasn’t cut into equal 12” sections. Even if it was a broken pole at one point, why not cut the equal foot sections out and discard the rest? Seemed weird to me.

 

[AndreLinoge]

Post WW2 goodies... I'm not sure about the Kabar, I think I searched that stamp out to post war era, and the limited use of the mountain ruck in ww2 vs the more widespread use of it in the Korean conflict era makes it appropriate I reckon. A post ww2 surplus using outdoors person would maybe have all these things in use on the same trip.
Or me, now. I carry that pack pretty regularly and I sure ain't shy about slinging Springfield pellets with the Garand.. also, never bought a knife I wouldn't use.

That's an H&R Garand, second most rare of em. I do believe International Harvester is the only manufacture that is more rare I believe.
Arsenal stamps and paint still pretty an fresh. Nice rifle.

 

[ISKRA]

This little knife (2.5 inches) got me into traditionals. It was made by a company called Iskra sometime in the second half of the previous century in Yugoslavia. That was a time, when you often couldn't just go to a hardware store and buy certain tools. Even once you could, people like my grandpa rather made their own. This hammer is just one of the many tools he made himself. Electric saws, snow plows, you name it. But it's easier to photograph such a small knife next to something like a hammer ...

 

[pearl2291]

Very cool thread and pics. Here is a pair. It makes me wonder if someone walked into the Shapleigh Hardware store at some time in the past and walked out with both of these in their pockets:

 

[Old Hunter]

This Imperial M-4 bayonet came home with my Dad from his US Army service in Japan in 1954/55. He carried it as his ARNG and outdoors field knife until he gave it to me in 1990. I added the M-1 Carbine to make it complete - they just seem to fit together. OH

 

[Will Power]

Faux Tortoiseshell Tidioute and companions.

To the left is a small hinged box made or horn and nailed together, it has inscriptions in old Dutch or German and is a pill, trinket or snuff box from I estimate the c 17th to early 18th century. Interesting use of horn anyway. The 'coin' is a satirical gambling token, sometimes known as a Cumberland Jack The obverse shows 'To Hanover' 1837 with a kind of Geo & Dragon, reverse is head of Queen Victoria of Great Britain (inscription in English,not Latin) It was a dig at Queen Victoria's Uncle, Duke of Cumberland, who became the King Of Hanover-probably he and his son had legitimate rights to the British throne but had been disinherited, he was suspected by some of committing a murder...

 

[ISKRA]

Last summer I came across a small exhibition, which included old Ottoman yatagans, handžars, swords and such, in Sarajevo, Bosnia. Sadly I barely had time to take a few really bad pictures before our perfomance with my old grammar school choir started, as I wasn't there just for pleasure. Please disregard the reflections of my younger colleagues ...

This wasn't my first time in Sarajevo. I really like the old city center, the Austrian-Hungarian part of the city and the Baščaršija, an old Turkish-style market. Nowadays they sell a lot of cheap souveniers, but if you know what to look for, you can get some nice items. There is still quite a few masters, who make various hand hammered dishes and pots. On my first trip to the city my dad wanted me to bring him a handmade "džezva", a pot for making what they locally reffer to as Bosnian coffee, which may be known as Greek or Turkish coffee in other regions of the Balkans.

Knives aren't my only interest. On of them is also folklore and ethnography. I am very slowly accumulating different headdresses that are part of folk costumes. So far I only have a fee from various former Yugoslav countries. One of them is this fez, which was handmade by a hatmaker near the old bazar in Sarajevo.

 

[Nature Boy]

A couple more out of an earlier era in Rochester, NY...

 

[Horsewright]

Bowie and a very old Smith:

Our interpretation of an 1880s Loop holster:

Knife and a bottle of Jack:

Knife, leggings and saddle:

Knife and flask:

Knife and bosalito (noseband for a finished bridle horse in the Californio tradition. This is a transitional one where the horse is ridden in the final stages of the two rein before going straight up in the bridle.

Josie one of the last times she was ridden in the two rein.