Ever find a knife?

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The lost knife thread got me thinking. Did you ever find say a $20 bill in some odd place that you thought you had lost? Or even unexpectedly find some money on the street or somwhere? Anyone got any good found knife stories. This is a big fantasy of mine. I did find a nice smooth bone appaloosa Case peanut in the basement of my fraternity house in college. It was down there for I don't know how long but it was in better than fair condition, I still carry it.

Bob
 
Hey,

Maybe this thread will help us discover who found the knives that were lost in the "ever lost a knife?" thread
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I found, at my elementary school, while playing basketball, there was a diver's / boot knife jutting out of a tree. Nice enough knife, looked cool, and it was suprisingly sharp. I was young, and nieve, and had no idea that it was a Hibben style thrower. Sheath was on the ground, so I grabed it, moved it away from the little kids...(I was like 13)...and I later brought it home.

Two weeks later, my brother's friends were walking and found, in a puddle, a Spydie Police model, in ROUGH shape!!! Rust, chips, dings, and did I mention RUST! They showed me theirs, so I showed them mine. Mine was CLEAN by now...I managed...TO TRADE MINE FOR THEIRS!!! I added $5.00, a Buck-Lite folder, and I was the proud owner of my first Spyderco. Took me about three days to clean it up to the point of being able to show it off.

I was a smaller 13 yr old, carrying a LARGE knife, until my finace bought me a Delica some 3 long years later. That Police model went everywhere with me, and I owe it all to having found the throwing knife!!


WHO'D OF THUNK IT!!!


Steve in NYC
 
Found a few cheap, beat up pocket knives over the years. Never anything that was vey good, though.

Paul

 
My greatest find was in my wife's great aunt's basement. While visiting her, she mentioned that her late husband had collected knives for several years. I told her I also collected knives, so she said she had a whole box of knives in the basement and I could take a couple home with me. In the box were several old pocketknives, mostly Schrades and Imperials and a few straight razors. None were "mint", but some were in "good" condition. I'm not a collector of pocketknives and know very little about what's desirable so I grabbed one in good shape and also an interesting Clover Brand straight razor.

As I was getting ready to leave I saw a wicker basket in the corner full of screwdrivers. On top was an old fixed blade hunting knife that looked like an old Marbles or Western. Upon closer inspection I found that it had been well-used and had no maker stamp. I dismissed it, but dug deeper. Down at the bottom of the basket I found a black metal sheath. Pulling it out, I found encased in the sheath one of the most unique knives I've ever seen. It has a 6" black-coated clip-point blade and a wooden handle with 4 tools in it SAK-style. The tools are a corkscrew, screwdriver, leather punch and can opener. The blade was stamped PUMA Solingen. Here's a picture
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Subsequent research has shown this to most likely be a WWII-era boot knife produced for private purchase. Since I happen to collect daggers and boot knives, it is one of the prized pieces in my collection.

I little long-winded, but there it is.
 
I went to the bank a couple saturday's ago and was backing out of my parking spot, straightened out and something about fifty feet ahead in the middle of the lot caught my eye... pulled up next to it opened my door, leaned out , grabbed it and left... A gerber multiplier... I felt bad turnred around went in the bank and asked if anyone was lookin for it and no one had asked or claimed it soooo.... funny I was gonna get one someday...
 
When I was somewhere in the range of 10 to 12 YO, I found an old rusty K-Bar marine knife by a lake near my house. I was thrilled by the USMC stamp on it and often wondered if the Marine than owned killed anyone with it (a bit gruesome, I know). Eventually I learned that it wasn't necessarily actually owned by a Marine, let alone someone who was actually in combat (it could have gotten all rusty sitting in the grass there in a few weeks.

I don't remember what happened to that old knife- it's long gone.
 
I haven't been so lucky but my father has found a couple. One he found when he was cleaning out under the back seat of a car he just bought. It was a brand new POS boot knife. The other one I think is kind of odd, he was driving down the road and ran over a 2 blade case xx (the knife survived and is in pretty good shape). It flattened his tire and the odd part is it happened right above a Les Swhab tire center.

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Ray
Vancouver, Wa.
 
Found an open Gerber Gator by the side of the road. I had been kicking up gravel and waiting for the cops to arrive after getting into a car accident with my friends.
 
Once while deer hunting in Utah, I sat down on a rock outcropping to glass the opposite hillside. After a few minutes I became slightly bored (I was 18) and let my eyes wander. I looked down at the rocks below me a couple of feet and there was a knife blade. I picked it up and identified it as a Cattaragus 225-Q from WWII. The leather handle had been eaten away by whatever critters will do that, but the blade was without rust. I took it home and made a wooden handle for it and still have it. It probably has no collectors value as is but was fun to find.

Bruce Woodbury
 
I lost a lovely small Al Mar lock back when I lived in NY. I found it, (to my great delite!) after moving to FL when I was sorting thru some stuff for donatation. It was only hiding in a seldom used jacket pocket!
Alass, I lost it again about five years ago and it has'nt yet returned
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I think it's gone for good!
 
I lost a lovely small Al Mar lock back when I lived in NY. I found it, (to my great delite!) after moving to FL when I was sorting thru some stuff for donatation. It was only hiding in a seldom used jacket pocket!
Alass, I lost it again about five years ago and it has'nt yet returned
frown.gif
I think it's gone for good!
 
I lost a lovely small Al Mar lock back when I lived in NY. I found it, (to my great delite!) after moving to FL when I was sorting thru some stuff for donatation. It was only hiding in a seldom used jacket pocket!
Alass, I lost it again about five years ago and it has'nt yet returned
frown.gif
I think it's gone for good!
 
I lost a lovely small Al Mar lock back when I lived in NY. I found it, (to my great delite!) after moving to FL when I was sorting thru some stuff for donatation. It was only hiding in a seldom used jacket pocket!
Alass, I lost it again about five years ago and it has'nt yet returned
frown.gif
I think it's gone for good!
 
When I was around 9 or 10 my friends and I used to wander throught the woods nearby, and I once found a knife stuck into a stump, handle gone, point broken off, pitted with rust. Took it home, cut and sanded a handle from a 2x4, brillo'ed most of the rust off, filed a new point on, and made a sheath out of a seatbelt. Still have it. Still have the scar on my thumb from the first time I cut myself with it, too. No idea who originally made it.


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Found a nice Schrade lockback- like a Buck 110 on a "beach" (shore of the James River in VA). It was used as a "lover's lane" when I was in High School & the cops would occasionally move us along & search the cars of those who looked like "trouble". I'd heard tales of knives found there being thrown into the river- but this officer lacked a strong throwing arm. Had it for a few years- long gone now- I think I loaned it to someone (the mistakes of youth).

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In 1957 my Grandpa moved from Kansas to Texas. They rented their house in Kansas untill they returned in 1975. After they moved back to Kansas, he found his old Keen Cutter pocket knife where he lost it, in the basement some 18 years later.
 
Found a small all stainless 2 blade folder - still the thinnest knife I own. Carried it as my main knife for YEARS, and still gets carried when I need a VERY inconspicuous knife. It'll actually fit INSIDE my wallet
 
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