Bails and Chains

scrteened porch said:
That's a great picture. He certainly has plenty of buttons to attach a knife chain to.
That looks like the sort of hoop kids used to chase around with a stick. Even I'm not old enough to appreciate that activity.
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:thumbsup: That's exactly that, the stick must be lying somewhere. The picture is pre-WW1, I ignore who is the kid, maybe a cousin who later emigrated to Argentina.
 
I like these metal handle imperial boys knives and managed to add one with an intact chain to my small assortment of them. Interestingly the loop for the chain is stamped germany. Boys knives like this were before my time, but they still have a certain sense of nostalgia for me.

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said no to the spear in ebony and chains, cause this bad boy takes the cake!

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Nice Imperial, Paul T. Is the blade grind a one-side saber??o_O

Glad you like cake, Mrknife!!:D
 
Hey Jer, my dad used to tell me stories of them living on the farm in Edom, Texas, during the Great Depression.
He said they had to make up their own fun because they didn't have any money for anything! So they would take the hoops off of some old wooden barrels, then they took a broomstick handle and would fashion a Prince Albert can, flattened then would nail it to the tip of the broomstick.
Then turn up the edges of it, so you could roll those hoops all over the yard. Ah, the good ole days!!
scrteened porch said:
That's a great picture. He certainly has plenty of buttons to attach a knife chain to.
That looks like the sort of hoop kids used to chase around with a stick. Even I'm not old enough to appreciate that activity.
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Yep, these Maher&Grosh knives are certainly great examples of what those old knives must've been like, back in the latter part of the 19th century, to the early part of the 20th century.
 
Jolipapa said:
:thumbsup: That's exactly that, the stick must be lying somewhere. The picture is pre-WW1, I ignore who is the kid, maybe a cousin who later emigrated to Argentina.
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There used to be photo albums in my grandmother's house full of men in blue civil war uniforms. No names, because whoever put them there knew who they were. Even Gramma didn't remember who they were, though she thought they were from her mother's family.
Let's hope the recording angels are more rigorous.
 
singin50 said:
Hey Jer, my dad used to tell me stories of them living on the farm in Edom, Texas, during the Great Depression.
He said they had to make up their own fun because they didn't have any money for anything! So they would take the hoops off of some old wooden barrels, then they took a broomstick handle and would fashion a Prince Albert can, flattened then would nail it to the tip of the broomstick.
Then turn up the edges of it, so you could roll those hoops all over the yard. Ah, the good ole days!!
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I didn't know about the tobacco tins (better let Prince Albert out, ha ha). Or the barrel hoops. Probably the central hoops so they wouldn't be crooked.
My first exposure to the stick and hoop was a Punch cartoon from the late 19th century (not that I go back that far). A picture of a mother and a child with a hoop and stick, the caption being, "Mother: 'Go play in the back garden, Darling.' Son: 'Why, Mama?' Mother: 'Because it's Sunday.' Son: 'But isn't it Sunday in the back garden too, Mama?'
Cartoons are better than ever.
Bailed knife content: a Western I bought today. I think I'm the first to sharpen it.
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Oh yeah, pistonsandgears! Somethin bout them M&Gs, beautiful!:thumbsup::thumbsup: Course that early TC ain't no slouch either!
 
Yes, they have that old look to them. After all, I think if you're going to bring an old knife brand back and don't achieve that, you've really missed the overall aesthetic of that brand or pattern of knife. Obviously there are some things that have to line up with current control factors, but with pocket knives, it's still pretty simple and that's why so many of us are crazy about them.
 
Evil is too strong, more like convenient for some. Yes, someone has that I know of. PaulHilborn, he put a snap lock on his to make the hooking of it to a belt loop more convenient.
 
I would agree with someone who did. I just want to see what Charlie’s knife looks like without all of it.
 
I'm curious if I'm the only one that has issues with the chain knotting up. I'm thinking about changing the chain out to this heavy stainless steel necklace I came across. Comments?????IMG_4294.PNG
 
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