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Hey gang,
Thankfully I had both days off of work this weekend, so my lovely wife Katie and I decided to head out to do a bit of treasure hunting. We started off at the Hartville Fleamarket. The vendor turnout was rather small due to some impending poor weather, but I was able to find one guy selling knives that interested me. He had two display cases crammed full of slipjoints of varying age and condition. I picked up two from this seller and we left soon thereafter once the rain started.
After leaving the fleamarket we stopped in at a couple local antique stores. I wound up picking up two more slipjoints between the 4 shops we visited. By the time we were done in the 4th store, the weather had cleared and we were able to visit a few garage sales. We didnt find much at these, but I did wind up picking up one last knife at a yard sale at the end of the street we live on.
I had a chance to snap a couple pictures of my haul today, so here they are.
From top to bottom, we have:
1. AW Wadsworth and Son, Germany pen knife. I believe this type of scale material is referred to as Ivorine. The scales have shrunk considerably over the years, but the walk and talk is still VERY impressive on this knife!
2. Korten & Scherf, Germany pen knife. At first, I thought this had ivory scales, but I believe now they are smooth bone. I really was drawn to the plain bar shield on this one.
3. Canton Cutlery Co pen knife, with one blade snapped off very close to the bolster. The remaining blade has been sharpened down to a wee little toothpick. I LOVE the greenish cracked ice scales. This is my 2nd knife from the Canton Cut Co, which was located about 15 miles from my house. Ignoring the broken off blade, the knife just screams quality.
4. A rather mysterious Remington pen knife. I think the scales are a synthetic material, but they are very hard. The look like off-white plastic at first glance, but when inspected under light they seem to have some pearl-like swirl to them.
5. A nice old Schrade-made Craftsman 9480 jack. I really enjoy the swirled-coffee scales and shield on this one. Its obviously been well taken care of over the years.
I may have gone a wee bit overboard with my knife buying this weekend, but hey, I have a total of $16 invested in these 5 knives. The top two, the German knives, I paid $5 each for, and a whopping $2 each for the last three. Im happy, and Katie even found a few little owl figurines for her collection.
Ahh, all weekends should be like this.
Thanks for reading!
-Dan
Thankfully I had both days off of work this weekend, so my lovely wife Katie and I decided to head out to do a bit of treasure hunting. We started off at the Hartville Fleamarket. The vendor turnout was rather small due to some impending poor weather, but I was able to find one guy selling knives that interested me. He had two display cases crammed full of slipjoints of varying age and condition. I picked up two from this seller and we left soon thereafter once the rain started.
After leaving the fleamarket we stopped in at a couple local antique stores. I wound up picking up two more slipjoints between the 4 shops we visited. By the time we were done in the 4th store, the weather had cleared and we were able to visit a few garage sales. We didnt find much at these, but I did wind up picking up one last knife at a yard sale at the end of the street we live on.
I had a chance to snap a couple pictures of my haul today, so here they are.
From top to bottom, we have:
1. AW Wadsworth and Son, Germany pen knife. I believe this type of scale material is referred to as Ivorine. The scales have shrunk considerably over the years, but the walk and talk is still VERY impressive on this knife!
2. Korten & Scherf, Germany pen knife. At first, I thought this had ivory scales, but I believe now they are smooth bone. I really was drawn to the plain bar shield on this one.
3. Canton Cutlery Co pen knife, with one blade snapped off very close to the bolster. The remaining blade has been sharpened down to a wee little toothpick. I LOVE the greenish cracked ice scales. This is my 2nd knife from the Canton Cut Co, which was located about 15 miles from my house. Ignoring the broken off blade, the knife just screams quality.
4. A rather mysterious Remington pen knife. I think the scales are a synthetic material, but they are very hard. The look like off-white plastic at first glance, but when inspected under light they seem to have some pearl-like swirl to them.
5. A nice old Schrade-made Craftsman 9480 jack. I really enjoy the swirled-coffee scales and shield on this one. Its obviously been well taken care of over the years.
I may have gone a wee bit overboard with my knife buying this weekend, but hey, I have a total of $16 invested in these 5 knives. The top two, the German knives, I paid $5 each for, and a whopping $2 each for the last three. Im happy, and Katie even found a few little owl figurines for her collection.
Ahh, all weekends should be like this.
Thanks for reading!
-Dan
Well done and thanks for the post and pictures :thumbup:
