Harness Jacks- any collectors?

Hey Guys,
I'm so sorry about the picture problems here! Since I can see the photo's as images here on this end, and not as links(which is the way I intended all to see them) I'm convinced it is something here on this end I am doing wrong:o .. I will brain storm it and work on it to try and figure out what it is I am doing wrong.. :confused: :confused: Thanks!

As far as this punch blade and the knife goes, I feel very fortunate that you have commenced to assit me in finding out more about its vintage and origin!. I will be very patiently awaiting your research results!!.:)

Tony
 
waynorth,

Superlative information thus far! The punch does seem to be a dead ringer for the Camillus scout knife your friend sent you a photo of, however, I would be curious to know if it is in fact stamped Sprial Punch on the obverse side of that punch blade?? In addition, are you now of the mindset that Camillus actually built my Keen Kutter HJ?:confused:
 
It's not stamped, Antonio, but not all blades are always stamped as you probably know. The stamp on yours is quite nicely done, actually! I'll add info as it comes up, but I'm definitely leaning toward Camillus! They contracted many knives for many companies, and KK is a known one!
Arrivederci,
Casimiro
 
Hey guys, I hope it was one of you who beat me to this one.
You guys have got me interested in this pattern, & now I'm gutted I missed this!
And working in an office, a harness jack isn't even of any use to me! I guess we're just a lost cause, huh? ;)
lol
 
That's a heckuvva good price, if it's a real Harness Jack?! I bought 3 from this seller and had to return them. He had no reservation about a full refund, fortunately for me!
A real Shapleigh in excellent condition is worth much more.
 
Search me Waynorth, I've no idea! For all I know it could be a jack with the secondary blade ground down. But it did look nice.
I just wasn't quick enough to up my bid in time. :(
 
The punch appears valid after a second look at the phototgrapghs and much scrutiny. In fact, other than some pitting at the bases and tangs of both blades the knife does not appear to be used all that much.. I have never considered eBay-UK as another source for the vintage folding knife market, but at these prices I believe I will now pursue it.. Thanks freezergeezer for bringing it up here.:cool:
 
No, no! Go away!!

Gimme a chance to catch up you guys!

LOL. :D

Seriously, you're welcome Sunnyd, but to be honest, I go through fleabay.co.uk as I live here. But I always search for knives available worldwide.
I've never been able to work out if this gives different results to fleabay.com. Although I do prefer .com's layout.
 
There's a Kissing Crane Harness Jack for sale here if anyone is interested.


http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24648

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Missed it; one heck of a price! Some of these guys won't even deal with Canda!! And I have a U.S. mailing address!! Oh well, someone else gets my money.
 
Yeah, I'm desolate! :C :C

I guess I should have opened a dialogue with the seller, but I spotted it too late, went for it, & got blocked from bidding by his e-bay settings.
 
jacknife said:
There's a Kissing Crane Harness Jack for sale here if anyone is interested.


http://www.britishblades.com/forums/showthread.php?t=24648

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I bought one of these and it is a nice knife. Sorry no pics but I don't have the
cam equipment necessary. He's selling sodbusters too. Both knives are 1950's
unsold stock and are good. The price is peanuts too, but I don't know
about postage to the US?

Kissing Crane made in Germany. I've used my HJ to punch plastic and it was
very efficient.
 
Those knives are very substantially built, jacknife! I have a few of them old and new. I was originally going to stick to American made knives, when I started collecting but these are an interesting variation on the Harness Jack concept. I've since found some nice German and English ones.
 
Thanks for your kind words, Parkman21! :thumbup: :D

The HJ`s were mostly made for the US market. Klaas stamped them with their Kissing Cranes for selling under their own brand and left them unmarked when producing for other companies.
 
Very Interesting thread indeed, thanks for all the great info....now regarding that corksrew,,,,besides the obvious was there any other uses for it and what would the name of the knife the "rich" would carry?
Good point it is the predessor of the modern day Sak once you look at the big picture.
I am assuming that a cattlemans knife with a punch was the rich mans knife, but I have never seen one with a corkscrew.

Kap
 
waynorth said:
I was there in third place sunnyd; I shoulda bid higher :( ! It's not as rare as some others, but you don't see them often. I saved my money for that Robeson today :D !
Watching for the mailman already :o !
Check it out; something familiar about that shape ;) ?!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=002&item=120021898083&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
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Waynorth,
Wow, I missed this one before now! This one is definitely a keeper!! And man you are right it is the spit'n image of one of the S&M's you commissioned (one which I proudly own and currently edc). This one is VERY COOL indeed for a good fair price. And incidentally, these sellers are real fine folks to deal with by the way in case you have not dealt with them previously!

kapt kopter,
You are right my man. This is one of the all time coolest threads here in 'Traditional Folding & Fixed' for sure.. I have learned much from this one here mostly, and some other spin-off related threads regarding HJ's that you would be very hard pressed to find anywhere else in the world. I often think how lucky we all are here at BF to have such a great member base and the plethora of information that accompanies it. Thanks for bringing it up!.:thumbup:
 
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