Does anybody like penknives? If so, please show them here.

[Wheeler80]

 

[screened porch]

Great knives, everybody! Thanks for the response.

Like them a lot! But, I consider any knife being with two blades at opposite ends and with a single-spring as qualifying....

However, I sense that this thread is aimed at smaller knives, size is important.

Kissing Cranes Shadow horn c.50s or 60s

I have a Bruckman that looks exactly like that.

I was thinking of the smaller ones.
Penknife is an awkward category. I may not be the only person in the world who can't entirely forget the folk definition of penknife as "small pocketknife". I like little knives of any shape because I'm fascinated by miniatures, but I also like larger single-spring double-enders because they're a lot of knife in a slim handle.
Some of my bigger ones: a Schrade Cutco Walden NY, Utica Featherweight Grand Sachem (not Girl Scout, mind you), Kutmaster Utica advertiser (1 of 2000), and I picked up the wrong Vic. This one has one blade and is therefore a jackknife.

 

[Toddwalla]

I love a pen knife or small knife in general really. Here are a couple of recent additions

 

[screened porch]

TDhurl, I think that according to the collector's definition, your top one is a pen and the bottom one is the prototypical peanut. (Some of my peanuts have turned out to be small serpentine jacks, because they don't have the rounded bolsters that make them look like peanuts.) 'Round these parts at least, the spear/pen is more usual, but not crucial to the definition.
I don't carry mine much either. I tend to carry the most knife I can get away with. As some have said, the little guys are good for less knife-friendly arenas.

Todwalla, I have a blue mini copperhead with a silver shield. I carry it when I want to impress, though in general I can't get used to a wharncliffe main.

Jack, that Taylor with the one carbon and one stainless was an imaginative use of the vehicle.

 

[screened porch]

A few more little ones:
The white-handled Bruckman is exactly the sort of knife that my dad would carry nothing but. The Camillus next to it is yellow delrin, though you can't tell in this light. I found it under mildly miraculous circumstances. Then a Buck-made 305 next to a Camillus version stamped Camillus.

 

[flatblackcapo]

 

[smiling-knife]

W H Morley & Sons; an import brand of Kastor & Bros N.Y. C. early 1900s.

 

[Gary W. Graley]

Quite a small knife but blades were ground with almost a zero bevel, very sharp!

Charlie Noyes gave me the who on that folder:
PINE KNOT

A brand name of Belknap Hardware of Louisville, KY.

Goins says 1930 - 1940.

Some of the Pine Knot knives were, reportedly, made by Robeson.

 

[edbeau]

I took a picture of my Frontiers with pen blades a while ago. Might have a few more but this will do for now. And a picture of my only Frontier Muskrat.

 

[edbeau]

Rough Rider Muskrat

 

[Crazy Canuck]

Awesome thread idea! I love little pen knives. Currently I have these two, and a couple on the way.

Northwoods Norfolk

Queen #03 Small Sleeveboard

Waiting on a Case Eisenhower arriving next week, and hopefully a GEC 68 shortly after.

 

[smiling-knife]

Two George Butler Sheffield penknives

 

[screened porch]

Dang, these are nice knives.
And I'm learning things, as usual around here.

 

[Bob W]

I have many, but only a few decent pics.

This one from Utica Cutlery is a dream to carry and use.

This one is technically a Senator pattern because of the equal ends, but Senator knives should be considered a sub-category of pen knives. From Needham Cutlery.

Eisenhower knife from Case. Even in this low-scale image from a flatbed scanner the jagged edge is obvious. A frequent complaint of mine with modern Case knives, compare it to the similar scan of the Bruckmann below.

A gentleman's pen knife with a nail tool, from Bruckmann.

 

[kamagong]

Depends on the knife. I like this one.

 

[sceva]

GEC Esquire and a 2006 Bladeforums (Canal Street) ring opener.

 

[knarfeng]

Rough Rider Muskrat

I don't see how a muskrat with two clip blades qualifies as a pen knife.

 

[kamagong]

I don't see how a muskrat with two clip blades qualifies as a pen knife.

Especially since the OP included this qualifier.

Excluding muskrats, mooses, and canoes, as laws unto themselves.

 

[Chui]

- ok, so forgive me if I'm being stupid here............but that Muskrat looks a tad like some of the others, so what is a 'penknife' please.....?

 

[black mamba]

Penknives are typically small knives under 3½", usually more like 3-3⅛" closed, and usually in equal end or sleeveboard patterns. Muskrats are larger knives, usually 3⅞-4¼", and typically with serpentine frames.