Generosity and the Collateral Products of Searching for Old Knives!

[Jolipapa]

Victoria, BC is the capital of our Province, and is a smaller, touristy city - more a village, with a lot of parks, waterfront and architectural charm. It is on the tip of Vancouver Island, and I go there via ferry from time to time, because my granddaughter goes to U of Vic and my son lives there (not her father - she's my daughter's girl).
They have an antique district in downtown, and I occasionally find a nice knife there. What I didn't expect to find was this beautiful set of drawers about four weeks ago!!

Someone stripped one of the drawer-fronts and gave up. I had to glue one drawer together, and that's all! Thin, multiple drawers are the collectors dream!

Nice find and veru useful. The same kind of drawers was used to store lead fonts in printing works or newspapers.

 

[btb01]

Charlie, that cabinet is great! Perfect for knife storage.

I keep my knives in this old industrial parts cabinet I found at an antique shop/flea market a while back. My collection is small so far - the top row of drawers is not quite full, and there are a couple bottom drawers filled with boxes/tubes - so I have plenty of room to grow. :thumbup:

Here's the inside of one of the drawers. I bought a roll of padded drawer liner for tool boxes and used a cardboard template to cut it to size (which was a lot of fun for 24 drawers).

 

[ptradeco]

I frequent gun shows and almost every trip I find something while pawing around through the dealers baskets and boxes looking for old knives:

And yep, even a knife or two!

 

[Campbellclanman]

Wonderful Brad, i could comment on each and every one - but I sound like a broken record and for that I apologise folks.
That Steel is magnificent! as are the advertising knives - beautiful examples ( I thought you were going out of them? ) and a quick mention on the KeenKutter Printers Block - man I wish we had that sort of thing here in New Zealand.

 

[ptradeco]

Wonderful Brad, i could comment on each and every one - but I sound like a broken record and for that I apologise folks.
That Steel is magnificent! as are the advertising knives - beautiful examples ( I thought you were going out of them? ) and a quick mention on the KeenKutter Printers Block - man I wish we had that sort of thing here in New Zealand.

Duncan my friend you always keep a few good examples back

 

[waynorth]

That print block is beautiful, Brad! I like that simple corkscrew also!
Nice, useful cabinet, bbt01!

 

[clutchcarter]

This cobbler's bench houses some of the oddball goodies I couldn't resist during my searches.

 

[BigBiscuit]

I like it Mark ^^^. I just sat for close to 10 minutes admiring the array of fantastic oddball goodies. :thumbup:

 

[ptradeco]

This is an antique precursor of multitool knives, heritage of my family.
The balisong type scissors' stamp says “Patent Bontgen Sabin” from Solingen.
This is between 1880 and 1922. its mechanisms are really ingenious!!!

We like this. LOTS!!!

 

[pistonsandgears]

Victoria, BC is the capital of our Province, and is a smaller, touristy city - more a village, with a lot of parks, waterfront and architectural charm. It is on the tip of Vancouver Island, and I go there via ferry from time to time, because my granddaughter goes to U of Vic and my son lives there (not her father - she's my daughter's girl).
They have an antique district in downtown, and I occasionally find a nice knife there. What I didn't expect to find was this beautiful set of drawers about four weeks ago!!

Someone stripped one of the drawer-fronts and gave up. I had to glue one drawer together, and that's all! Thin, multiple drawers are the collectors dream!

Fantastic set of drawers Charlie :thumbup: I like that a lot! Perfect storage cabinet. I see a lot of great looking barlows hanging out there

 

[Jack Black]

These handmade pendants and lovely old Case Stockman were part of a goody bag that the good Mr Gevonovich sent me a while back

ADEE gave me a set of John Wilson & Son printing blocks :thumbup:

 

[wazu013]

 

[smiling-knife]

Great finds everyone. Lots of interesting stuff.

Brad, I thought you might be interested more information on your little corkscrew. It's a Clough patent which dates to 1900. Clough patented a machine for making simple twisted wire corkscrews. The smaller ones, like yours, had wooden sheaths. They were very popular as advertising item. There is also a larger version with a wooden handle.

Cheers

 

[ptradeco]

Great finds everyone. Lots of interesting stuff.

Brad, I thought you might be interested more information on your little corkscrew. It's a Clough patent which dates to 1900. Clough patented a machine for making simple twisted wire corkscrews. The smaller ones, like yours, had wooden sheaths. They were very popular as advertising item. There is also a larger version with a wooden handle.

Cheers

That is good info SK. They tell me that in the days before bottle caps producers would put simple corkscrews such as yours and mine into the cases of bottles.

 

[ptradeco]

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ADEE gave me a set of John Wilson & Son printing blocks :thumbup:

Jack what are the dimensions, roughly, of that print block? I collect these and have a curiosity. That one looks to be pristine and would probably print fine. Very nice.

 

[Jack Black]

Jack what are the dimensions, roughly, of that print block? I collect these and have a curiosity. That one looks to be pristine and would probably print fine. Very nice.

Thanks for your interest Brad :thumbup: Roughly, the blocks are 4" X 3". I used to have a small old press that would have taken them I think. Here's another pic :thumbup:

 

[waynorth]

Nice blocks, Jack! Cool corkscrew, in great condition, Steve!!

I found an old repeating book press that works perfectly for my wife's woodblock printing. It will print 12" by 18" or so.
She printed this harness jack for me - it's about 2 1/4" long as printed!

I found the block at a knife show - actually Mark Zelesky found it for me!

 

[waynorth]

While searching through my cousin's dusty old factory building (dating back to the late 1800s in Buffalo NY) for knives and other tools, I came across this old press. It is perfect for running a small edition of woodblock or lino prints, which my wife loves to do. My cuz just said it is yours!!
He even crated it up and shipped it west for us, God rest his soul!

My wife has been using it for over 25 years now!

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks Charlie, that Case block and the press are amazing, well done to all concerned :thumbup:

 

[RobbW]

Charlie, that Case harness jack block and the press are really something! Amazingly detailed work for such a small image. The care of the artist shines through.

Jack--that engraving is just begging for you to find a press and some ink to go with it!

Mark--like BB, I can get lost in the contents of that drawer. Love the small-ish tools like the pipe wrenches and scales. That needs to be the basis for a jigsaw puzzle, memory game, or "I Spy" game.