Fun with celluloid

[tongueriver]

I spotted this one on Ebay this morning. Stage Four cancer. Yow! And my favorite knife humor which I think I stole off BladeForums once.

 

[Old Hunter]

Man, the knife in the drawing is a Case 06247PEN, - anyone can see that!

 

[veitsi_poika]

Man, the knife in the drawing is a Case 06247PEN, - anyone can see that!

I say the knife in the drawing is a Camillus Muskrat knife with a broken blade. How much is it worth? Priceless due to sentimental value

 

[afishhunter]

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.

 

[tongueriver]

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.

 

[tongueriver]

And here is another pre-war knife in fine condition with celluloid "abalone pearl" covers. A miniature cattle knife.

 

[PenisMightier]

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.

 

[Just Tom.]

The celluloid on my grandfather’s old Remington has seen better days:


The other side gives an idea of what it must have looked like new:

 

[black mamba]

A pair of equal end jacks, Cut Co and Robeson. Both approaching 100 with no shrinkage or deterioration.

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