Grandfather's & Other Inherited Knives

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My Dad recently gave me my Grandfather's and Great-Grandfather's knives.
I thought I'd share a few with you.
Feel free to comment.
I'll add pics as I go along (better ones anyway) of the rest of them.
Some are in pretty good shape, others were definite users. :thumbup:

Grandfather's Case
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Great-Grandfather's Case
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mike
 
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Awesome pics, 2brothers. Gotta love Peanuts. Are the blades on your grandfather's knife SS?
 
This is what I really like about slips!

Nothing against cross locks (liner locks) but I cant seem to find a thread like this that has pictures of Grandfathers tactical's! :rolleyes:

In all seriousness I love the fact that these cool knives link us to our elders and the past.

Ken
 
ElCuchillo said:
Awesome pics, 2brothers. Gotta love Peanuts. Are the blades on your grandfather's knife SS?
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Yep, SS 5-dot (1985). Probably the last knife he ever purchased.
6220 SS, 6 meaning jigged brown delrin?, 2-blade, jack (peanut)

The older one I'm having trouble determining age.
From what I found at allaboutpocketknives it dates
between 1940-1964.
62087 on the back of the main blade.
Meaining??? help me out here. Jack knife (2-blade in this case), brown jigged bone.

Anyone know how to get a more accurate age of the older one?

thanks guys

mike
 
2brothers....

The 62087...

handle material 6 ...bone

2...2 blades (this pattern was also made with 3 blades such would have a pattern number of 63087)

Pattern # 087

This pattern has been manufactured as both a two and three-blade knife. The two blade knife is categorized as a serpentine style jack knife that measures 3 1/4" closed and is most often referred to as a small premium jack. The master blade on these knives is usually a clip blade, and the other is a pen. Case started making them sometime prior to 1940.

There is no way to tie the date down much better that what you have....





I am fortunate in that I have three knives that belonged to my great grandfather shown here from left to right...

a small silver pen knife that was used as his watch fob (I have the watch as well)
a Kutmaster hawkbill with his initials cut into it
a three blade Remington (R3153) with beautiful jigged bone

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I also have two of my grandfather's pocket knives, left to right

a two blade Boker
a two blade J.A. Henckels

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I have quite a few other family heirlooms as well. These knives come from my father's side of the family, they came from Germany and became coal miners. My father has given me several of his knives as well....quite a few actually and I have given quite a few of mine to the next generation as well.
 
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It is great that you have some heirlooms from your Grandfather. Mine has quite a few pocketknives, but unfortunately, my grandfather used a grinding wheel to sharpen his. I still have some of his tools but the knives got lost in the shuffle over the years. Three I remember were a small Schrade press button in tortoise celluloid, an Imperial or Colonial easy open jack and a two blade with a small hatchet in it.
 
I think the best thing about having a knife from a grandfather or other family is the memories. Holding it in your hand and have a hundred different memories of them using that knife reaming a pipe bowl, or opening mail, or showing you how to make a flute out of a reed. Some people will think me a bit crazy, but carrying around a very old pocket knife from grandad or dad is a little like having them there. When confronted by one of life's little problems, you slide a hand in your pocket and feel the smooth worn bone, and ask yourself "What would grandad/dad do?"

Then sometimes the solution really does come to you. Not that the knife is serving as any kind of spiritual medium, but as a solid reminder of the person, and thier way of doing things. Like stirring the memory of making a mat out of pine boughs to get an old Chevy out of the mud, or making a new thermostate gasket out of the bottom of a Kleenex box, or any of the other logical down to earth way of fixing something good enough to get home.

Or just the inspiration of someone who weathered a rebellion, a great depression, a world war, and a hard working life, that just like them, you'll get through this too.
 
Thank you for sharing your photos. I take it as a special privilege to see those old knives from your familys' histories.

My grandfather always kept a cigar box of pocketknives; it was a real treat when he'd take the box down to show us. After he passed I received one of those knives. No matter how many new knives I acquire, this one will always be the most 'valuable':

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My grandfather who died way before I was born, carried this little beauty as an EDC. He was a street car conductor on a trolley that ran between Attalla, AL and Gadsden, AL. Don't know when this knife was made, but that is the story told to me by Mama (grandmother) that gave it to me.
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Thanks for the information, according to the tang stamp, it is in block letters with UMC below, placing it in the 1924-1933 range according to the link provided. I really appreciate the link, just something I had never looked for. I knew he died in the thirties, Now I know the dating.
Thanks Again,
Jim
 
Thanks for the comments guys.

Thanks for posting your grandfathers' knives gang.
Those are some real nice ones as well as the stories behind them.

My grandfather was a Master carpenter in his day. Only past away
in 1994 at 82. When I was younger, we used to ride around in the
'country' and he would point out all of the houses he built or helped build.
It was very cool riding with him in his 1970 Ford pickup(his last new vehicle). I thought I was
a bigshot, sitting in the front seat like an adult. He would buy me
a Red Nehi soda and we would just ride around.

Even in his 70's I saw him drive 8p nails with 2 hits, 1 to set, 1 to drive.
16p's only took 3. He was a small man, maybe 5'7" 140lbs, but his arms
were solid muscle.
I miss that old man, but now I have something else to keep him in my memories.

I've got maybe 30 more to post in here, but it won't be until tomorrow.

mike
 
great knives and especially stories guys. Jackknife summed it up quite well. A inherited knife is something, to tie the past to the present.
I`d give every knife I own, to get my grandfathers henkels pen knife. well, it obviously wast ment to be.
Keep ´em coming guys.

Peter
 
Here are a few more. My bro said he would scan them for me this week.
There are still more.
My Grandfathers were bigger knife nuts than I remember. :thumbup:

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mike
 
Great thread. The knives are pretty great too. I see this disease we share can be passed along from generation to generation.:eek:
 
Great to see so many knives passing from one generation to the next. My Father just gave me a knife he bought from the hardware store, in town we grew up in. Bought it in 1948 when he was 8 years old, and I'll bet no one would sell a knife to an 8 year old today. He popped the keeper strap off the first day he had it, "because Indians didn't have them on their sheaths"
 
Excellent MORA there and thanks to all for the other pix as well.The first CASE knives were inspiring!
 
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