Fathers and Grandfathers knives

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Hello All,
There was some chat this morning about dads and grandads knives and I thought I would start a thread to let all of you fortunate enough to have a knife from your Dad or Grandad a place to show Case it and for those of us that don’t have one to marvel at yours!

So show us the knives those great men carried
 
My grandfather Giuseppe's knife, brought over from Sicily ca.1900!!
Shown with a Barlow for sizing! He started his living as a bricklayer, but fed up with discrimination against Sicilian immigrants, started up an eventually, very successful, wholesale grocery business!! The last picture is a promotional knife (Camillus/Syracuse) from the Family company!!GiuseppesKnife.jpg GiuseppesKnifeC.jpg Campagna&Sons.jpg
 
My paternal grandfather who was born in 1896 gave me this Maher and Grosh knife when I was about seven or eight years old. I wish I had listened closer. He either told me it was his first knife as a boy or one of his first knives as a boy. It is still today as smooth and snappy as any knife I own.

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My paternal grandfather carried a Buck 112 most his adult life. I also inherited a 110 and a Red bone CV stockman when he passed a few years ago. My dad gave me a kris and a buck 119 when he was cleaning some drawers out earlier this year. The 119 sliced my brothers palm open when he was young. Accidentally, of course.,
 
I have a well used Schrade Walden stockman that was one of my Grandfather’s last knife. I remember seeing him use The sheepsfoot blade to scrape a hoe before putting it in the shed after using it in the garden. My Dad always had a knife in his pocket, but was hard on a knife. He would use it to cut but also to pry, scrape, or dig in the dirt. I found a small box after he passed away full of mostly cheap knives with all the blades broke, back springs broke. There was an old Cattaragus jack knife that I saved from that. I do have some old Case and Old Hickory butcher knives that Dad used to butcher hogs. They still get used some around the kitchen. At family gatherings years ago as a boy I remember seeing the men comparing and admiring knives. Most were stockman knives and either Case or Schrade.
 
My uncle who raised me told me a couple years before he passed that he found a Old Timer Pocket Pal (or whatever Old Timer called their single blade peanut size knife) in a kitchen drawer. He'd forgotten he had it. I think one of my brothers got it. At his last job before he retired, (heating and AC supply company) he carried a retractable blade Stanley utility/box knife on the days he carried anything.
My paternal and maternal grandfathers were both buried with their pocket knife. So was my maternal great grandfather (a family tradition on both sides)
I believe my maternal great-great grandmother was buried with both her fixed blade (Old Hickory or Green River 10 inch Butcher knife that she always carried under her apron) and break top revolver. (I would not be a bit surprised if her surviving kids stuck a couple unopened boxes of ammo for the revolver in there, as well.)
 
Hope nobody minds - I’ve posted these before in other threads:

My Dad carried this Boker 240 after he retired the Imperial jack I posted today in the Totin thread.
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This Star Brand Shoe advertising knife belonged to my paternal grandfather, who died when my Dad was six years old. I’ve carried this knife once (very carefully).
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This picture of my Grandfather and his family was taken around 1913. My Dad is the little tyke in the middle.
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My Dad's knives. WWII Navy vet, got his first pair of shoes, hand-me-downs from an older brother, when he went to first grade. He was a brakeman / conductor on the Rock Island.

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Stag is a nice re-handle after original broken. Bone on the pile side of his slipjoint was broken when using as a hammer. Case rightly denied warranty claim so he filled it with epoxy. Almost had it fixed once but then came to my senses. I never saw him without his pocketknife. Bought him a replacement stockman once and it's still new in the box. He's been gone 30 years.

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Maternal grandfather's pride and joy. WWI Army vet, retired mail carrier, worked part time at the bait shop and sporting goods stores. He's been gone 40 years. Have posted this pic before and someone informed me it is from 1932.

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My dad carried my pre-dot 112 for years as a phone installer.
Papa carried what I can only describe due to the age I was when I saw it, was prob a contract buck small 300 series. My est time era would be late 60's last time I saw it
 
I've shown these knives before, but if it's alright, I'll post them again:

About five years ago, my father gave me this knife that he has had since he was a boy. He can't remember when he got it, but was under the impression that it was a knife issued to his father during WWII. I've asked around, and according to the experts in BL's Knife collecting & identification forum, it was post-war production sold to the civilian market. At any rate, it was my father's knife, and possibly for a time, my grandfather's knife:
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When my grandfather died in 1986, my aunt gave me a box of items that had been on his dresser. Among the tie tacks and fraternity pins was this Standard Knife Co. peanut in glitter gold celluloid. It wasn't in great shape, and it sat in a box for many years, until I started to be concerned about the celluloid breaking down.
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I posted a thread about what to do with it, and glennbad glennbad kindly offered to re-cover it in an acrylic material he had ordered that looks very much like the original. He did an amazing job:
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I’m fortunate to have a handful of knives from my dad, and one from my grandfather. When my grandfather was in World War II, he was on the aircraft carrier Enterprise. Whenever they would get bored, he would go into the machine shop and cut down bayonets to make them into smaller knives. He made the aluminum scales for this one. Pretty crafty old dude! I keep it oiled up just like I got it from him.




This is a custom knife made in the late 70s in Lucedale, Mississippi by maker named Cecil McLeod. Dad said it cost him $50. The aluminum makes it a featherweight. The blades are made from a huge old sawmill blade. This is, by a landslide, the coolest knife I’ve gotten from Dad.


This 2005 Buck was passed to my older brother. It didn’t have a lot of use on it. I’m guessing that he got this as a gift from someone who didn’t know his preferences. Dad is a 4 inch Stockman guy.



This is the typical knife he carries. A 4 inch stockman of any make through the years. He sharpens them until the tips get proud and start to stab him in the hand when he grabs them out of his pocket. I get his old ones, file down the kicks, and keep carrying them
 
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waynorth said:
My grandfather Giuseppe's knife, brought over from Sicily ca.1900!!
Shown with a Barlow for sizing! He started his living as a bricklayer, but fed up with discrimination against Sicilian immigrants, started up an eventually, very successful, wholesale grocery business!! The last picture is a promotional knife (Camillus/Syracuse) from the Family company!!View attachment 1355740 View attachment 1355741 View attachment 1355742
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I'm sure those knives are treasured by you Charlie. This one was my dad's hunting knife. Unfortunately he did not care for it very well - "rode hard and put away wet". He bought it on a big game hunt back in 1952 in Rapid City, South Dakota. Marbles Ideal with bakelite pommel. I restored it and made a new sheath for it. The original sheath completely dissolved away to nothingness:eek:.
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I've told this story before but it definitely belongs here. This Schrade Walden 8OT belonged to my paternal grandfather. He was a Fox Hunter and raised Fox Hounds, as he called them. They must have been good ones too. When I was young I remember two guys coming to see him to buy a couple of his dogs. My grandparents lived in North Georgia and these men drove from some other state to buy these dogs. I don't remember which state it was. I do remember after they left he came back up on the porch where I was setting with my grandmother. She asked him how he did. I'll never forget the big grin on his face as he counted out ten, one hundred dollar bills into my grandmothers hand! He was a farmer and raised chickens. He had the first two story chicken house I ever saw! Whenever I visited him I would always aggravate him to see his knife. He would always hand to me and say "Better be careful boy! This thing is sharp!" He passed in 1968, I was 14. After the funeral my grandmother gave it to me. She said "You should have this! Lord only knows you aggravated him enough about it!" She was exactly right! I've had this knife longer than any other knife I own.

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A Hibbard Spencer Bartlett from the last part of the 1800s that belonged to my Grandfather. He was born in 1875 and was in the Spanish American War in 1898. My Dad told me that he carried the knife in that war. He carried it everyday until he died in 1952. He was a dentist and probably didn't use the knife all that much. I do know that he broke off the second blade and used the stub to clean out the bowl of his pipes and used that end of the knife to tamp down his pipe tobacco. I saw him do it many times.

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Some really great stories & knives here. Need a double / triple like button.

This Case 6318 belonged to my paternal grandfather. My dad gave it to me about five years ago. He says he bought it about 1959-60 just before I was born. He passed away not long right after I was born in 1961. Never got to even know him.

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