Great day at the flea market: share your finds

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After raising the flag and reflecting on the day, I headed to the holiday flea market. Thanks to one older gentleman I had possibly my best flea market haul ever.
A little crooked knife and a Robinson with the serrations in a different place (the grubby one is the new one):
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Two folding hunters in better shape than I ever see them, and my only Olsen.
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The Craftsman is a liner-lock.
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The guy had bought knives with the money saved from quitting cigarettes, and apparently needed some of the money back for the occasional cigar.
 
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Nice ones, that Olsen is pretty sweet!
 
I wish I had a decent, flea market/ swap meet around me. They only sell junk at mine, nice haul
 
Thanks, guys.
This Flea market was unusually good. There was another guy whose Kinfolks fb I should have bought, but...
The Olsen actually turns out to be a Solingen Germany rather than a Howard (?) Michigan. I'm glad I got it though, because the blades are quite thin and very hard, and I love the long shallow curves on the edges of the clip and speyn. (It isn't quite a spay, but I can't call it a pen.)

Turns out I have more of these big buggers than I thought- contemplating a GAW.
 
Wow, that IS a great day at the flea market; congrats on your productive trip, SP!! :thumbup::thumbup:

- GT
 
Hi there my best flea market day since I've been collecting was last Sunday. Found my gold mine
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That's an epic haul! Where are you located? Looks like a heavily European bunch you got there.:thumbup:
adriancook53 said:
Hi there my best flea market day since I've been collecting was last Sunday. Found my gold mine

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I really wish we had flea markets around here. We just have the occasional yard/garage/estate sale which aren't reliable for cutlery at all lol
 
I wish we had a flea market like Adrian's.
I think I don't want to know what that one in the upper right is for.
 
You do really don't you. It's a Joseph rodgers & sons combination pruner and shears quite early I think.still researching this one and haven't got all info on the others yet.except some of our other members kindly told me the one top left is a taylor eye witness timber scribe about 1800 erase.

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That upper left one is pretty cool. I can see now it's got pruning shears in it. The one that was worrying me is the big one with nasty teeth, above the Laguiole.
The one with the curled end and the slot in the handle to receive it (lower left) looks like what was called a rase knife, for timber scribing. I could be wrong, of course.
 
That one with the nasty teeth according to the seller is a knife (comb)for grooming a horses main.

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MrTravelDog said:
I recently picked this up at the local flea market can I get some help identifying it. The blade is 3 1/2" and the overall length is 7 1/2". Full tang. Blade stamp says "Stainless Germany ."

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Can't tell who made it. But the knife is patterned after a jagdnicker (German hunting knife).
There was an influx of hunting knives made in Germany in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Mostly with stag handles. Most had carbon steel blades. Some were approximately 440A stainless. No way to say for sure, but I'd take a rough guess at your knife dating from that time period.
 
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