Fun with celluloid

🤯😳 looks like 0.25" to 0.50" of the clip blade is missing, too. Broken tip and re-profiled?
No doubt some sellers there would claim it a "ultra rare collectable" ... with an appropriate 3 or 4 digit price tag. 😐😂🤣
 
All of those 835 Schrade Walden open stock stockman knives hafted in celluloid died. Later they made two runs in Delrin that were both quite different in unrelated ways and that is another story. They were fine, of course. Now, then; here is a Utica EZ open jack which I believe pre-dates WWI. After the initial slight shrinkage of the celluloid, which was pretty much the usual, it became stable and looks good now, after 100 years. I am not inclined to store it on a sunny windowsill in the damp barn, however.

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My only 2 celluloids. Both are 1936 -1952 dated tang stamp Imperials. The celluloid seems to have shrunk but is stable from what I can tell. My poor camera skills do not do the easy open clip point justice. That whole knife just screams classic old knife to me.
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A pair of equal end jacks, Cut Co and Robeson. Both approaching 100 with no shrinkage or deterioration.

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Kerry Hampton called the cell on this old Robeson M.O.B. (Mother of Brunswick). 😁

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