Help me identify a knife...

[getpower]

Now, let me start by saying that I am not sure if the knife may be a cheap one or not.

Now for the knife.

It was a single-bladed knife that was a slipjoint, but also had a hook at the base of the blade, which was a lock. In the handle (which was made of some type of metal) there was a small pin which used gravity to lock the blade with that hook that I talked about.

Also, the lock kept the blade closed in your pocket, not locked open for safety.

The handle of the knife may have been around 2 1/2" long and the blade a bit smaller.

All that I could see on the blade was that it said imperial on it.

BTW, a co-worker had this knife at work, thats how I saw it.

 

[A.P.F.]

This thread is useless without pics.

 

[zenheretic]

Based on your description there is at least a 90% chance your knife is worth between $1 and $4000.

 

[A. G. Russell]

This thread is useless without pics.

no it is not, That is a trick knife, you close the knife, tip it to let the ball roll into the hook and the only way the victum can open the knife is to tip the handle sthright down with the joint up, and every body laughs when he can not figure it out.

 

[A.P.F.]

no it is not, That is a trick knife, you close the knife, tip it to let the ball roll into the hook and the only way the victum can open the knife is to tip the handle sthright down with the joint up, and every body laughs when he can not figure it out.

Well I'll be dipped. Leave it to A.G. to have all the pics in his mind!

 

[getpower]

I am not sure if its a trick knife, my co-worker used it for utility, and the mechanism was a pin, not a ball.

But it was hard to figure out how to open.

BTW, if I could find pictures of it, then I would probably know what kind of knife it was.

 

[tirod3]

If I could post pics, I'd show you mine.

They look like a small pen slipjoint - the base of the blade has a large ricasso with a miniature bottle opener for the hook. I tried, it's a little too small to do that job.

I've put mine away (if the boys didn't abscond with it) because at the tender age of 5, they would try to force the blade open by pushing it with the tip of their index finger . . .

The description was quite accurate. "Looks" just like mine. When you grew up with no internet, visualization becomes a honed skill modern generations simply don't understand. Some of us remember when phones didn't have cameras or cellporn of your girlfriend.

 

[yablanowitz]

Yup, standard Imperial Trick Knife. They usually go between $5 and $20 on eBay, mostly toward the low end of that spread. I know I have at least one somewhere in the knife chest. It actually has pretty decent steel.