EDIT: Charlie Othello is the trade Mark for Anton Wingen Jr. I have owned many of their Fixed blades, they are a Top Solingen Cutler firm, I now only own a matching set of Three "Bowies" from A.Wingen Jr that sport the Othello Mark, a 15, 13 and 10 inch Stag handled Bowie set. The quality is right up there with Puma.
The small knife is often called the Jadgmesser (sp?) and is sold by itself but also accompanied at times the larger hunting and beautifully decorative Hunting swords called Hirschfangers.
I must apologise Charlie as I did say I would put some photos up of a few objects I scored, and to be honest...its been a whirlwind since then, so heres a catch up, I really LOVE the the odd bits and pieces we come across while searching for yet more treasure, whenever I come across Kitchen knives, Carvers...I am attracted like a magnet to steel, so anyway here are a few things I have picked up on my travels of late.....
The Antiques shop had this as English, I immediately spotted it as an early J Henckels Twin Works - this Sharpener or Steel is
massive and it's fairly old, it would be safe to say this was in the right place being an Antique store...
Its always interesting to see the interest people show in early Corkscrews - and for good reason, some of the early stuff is quite neat..I am always looking, but here are a couple I picked up the other day..
I saw this C.Johnson Flag knife the other day, I ALWAYS am a fan of the earlier Checkering of the handles, and to be honest I have never seen a C.Johnson fixed blade like this one before, I used to own tons of Bowies, Fixed blades and was always looking through every avenue to find them, this one has SCOUT KNIFE etched, alongside the CJ Stamping, and I like the knives this Cutler Firm produces, and like I said - havent seen one like this so I picked it up
The Handle certainly isnt Ebony as the knife is very light, so I take it that it is Bakelite..lets be honest the knife isnt any special, but something again a wee bit different than what you find everyday, and although its not the best knife in the world, I thought it was kinda cool
Another Sheffield knife I picked up- again nothing special, but again because of the markings on the blade I picked it up as I am a fan of the bigger early Stampings - New Zealand being a farming Country - well we get a LOT of Skinners such as this, but not the early pinning or interesting stamping of the blades like this...
I also collect Carving knives, Carving sets now and then, any old Kitchen big knife - so one day soon maybe that might be a great thread to have start up - again I must find the time to take snaps.
