Historical knives

[Emery E Mitchamore]

I can’t afford true antiques and don’t really want to spend the time necessary to find them so I’m looking for some suggestions of brands that produce good quality reproductions of historical pocket knives, such as the Barlow and Case.

 

[Vlade]

Case makes a pretty nice looking Bowie knife. I always wanted to get one but never did. They also make a v42 which is a British commando style dagger stiletto. From world war II era. I don't know much about Barlow so maybe someone else will chime in. also you could check knifecenter for a made in England British commando dagger knife. It's made in Sheffield England

 

[knarfeng]

I can’t afford true antiques and don’t really want to spend the time necessary to find them so I’m looking for some suggestions of brands that produce good quality reproductions of historical pocket knives, such as the Barlow and Case.

GEC and Case.
Rough Rider, surprisingly enough, produces some historical Case patterns that Case no longer produces, and does a pretty fair job of it. The knives are manufactured in China, but the US owners of the brand have access to many old Case patterns.

 

[Arathol]

I can’t afford true antiques and don’t really want to spend the time necessary to find them so I’m looking for some suggestions of brands that produce good quality reproductions of historical pocket knives, such as the Barlow and Case.

Sounds like you are looking for knife patterns made years ago that are still available now. A barlow is a knife pattern. Case is a knife maker, not a knife pattern. Barlow knives are still made by a few makers, just google. Case still makes knives, and many of their knives are very similar to what they made decades ago. What you need to do is look up a list of vintage knife patterns, find what you are looking for then google the pattern name for modern equivalents. There are lots of them out there.

 

[Just Tom.]

Not reproductions, and maybe not what you’re looking for, but Douk-Douk, Nagao Higo No Kami, Mercator Black Cat, Opinel, and MAM are all historical models, still being produced and readily available today:

Many of the traditional slipjoint patterns found in old Sears and hardware store catalogs from the turn of the last century are still being produced by Case and others.

 

[Jolipapa]

Mathieu Herrero and a few other specialize in repros, but I'm afraid they're nearly as expensive as the original. This is an Aurillac.


Here my great grandfather's own.

 

[Trubetzkoy]

Mathieu Herrero and a few other specialize in repros, but I'm afraid they're nearly as expensive as the original. This is an Aurillac.
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Here my great grandfather's own.
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Wow, that's indeed a handsome knife -- and so is your great grandfather's, of course.

 

[Jolipapa]

Wow, that's indeed a handsome knife -- and so is your great grandfather's, of course.

Thank you. This is his only son, lost in the Somme in 1915, sergeant leading an attack. They came to Parisian suburb from the city of Aurillac mid XiXth.
The other, simpler, rounded pattern is still made, by the successor of the first maker. Many other old French patterns are still widely made, not only as customs .