I found a box... wonder what's in it?

WA Martin said:
I wanted to know what was the sort of lavendarish scaled knife in the bottom right hand corner of the original picture. Just below and to the right of the serrated edge with the deer head carved into the scales. Me thinks it might be a peanut but who knows.
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It is an Ulster. Seems like Baer was trying to decide the right branding for this fashion of "Kameo Karved" knives. You will see them with the scout emblem done this way as well. As to the color, methinks that this otherwise mint Ulster has faded greatly from whatever it's original accent color was. Brown?

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So here we have Imperial Mexico, Imperial and Ulster. IIRC there is also a Kingston done this way.
 
Bigfattyt said:
It's like a pirates treasure chest!

Full of treasure!

That mint electricians knife is fantastic!
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Yeah, I had forgotten I had that one. Even the etch is still good as new. I had packed this box up in 2008 and not looked in it since. Makes me want to dig deeper in that room.
 
WA Martin said:
I like the looks of the knife - even if it isn't purple! What size is it?
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3 1/4" closed. Pattern 50D from 1959. And yes, the true color is redish brown and dark cream.

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This is an archived photo with truer color.

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Codger_64 said:
Yeah, I had forgotten I had that one. Even the etch is still good as new. I had packed this box up in 2008 and not looked in it since. Makes me want to dig deeper in that room.
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Time goes by faster than we think. One of these days I hope to find my Cub Scout knife that I haven't seen in 45 years. I will bet it has some nice patina by now.
Thanks for the show tonight, you packed away some real treasure.
 
Glad you found these Codger, and thanks for sharing them with us, it's great to have your knowledge and expertise here :thumbup:
 
What a great new (old) find, Mike! Something for everyone in there. The tu-tones are my favorite to collect.

Please do me one favor, though. Keep that Streamline Camillus away from any other knives. Every one of those I have seen has gassed out. In fact, you can see it starting to happen on the bolsters and shield.

I would hate to see that great group of knives get ruined by one.

Thank you for sharing this box of treasure!

Glenn
 
Hi Glenn! I was hoping you would drop in. Would you mind showing your variety of colors and patterns of the Tu-tones? My pair is a poor representation of the genre.
 
I wish I could tell celluloid from a fencepost. I probably ought to isolate all my knives. Or put them all through the scalding sniff test.
I salute you, Codger- that's an impressive number of knives to have put away and forgotten about.
 
Thanks SP! There are more. If it storms and I don't get to work today, I'll go dig some more and see what emerges. I might even post the (SAK-like objects) from this box. I just wish my photos were up to snuff. I am certain there is a box of fixed blades dating back to the 1930's to prewar and postwar. In quite a few brandings.

As to cell, pyraline in general, my sense of smell pretty well died with my lungs so I can't tell by smell tests. But a lot of old cell is not the clear-ish flat, thin stuff we are used to. It is thickly formed like modern plastics. And in the mix are various other plastics like hard rubber and forms of styrene. These Camillus knives are also pyraline. They will be found maker branded, Kent (Woolworths), Dunlap (Sears), etc.

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Glenn,
Those imperials are EYE CANDY.
They remind me of the color scheme used in a few of the cars around that time.
They are very pleasant to look at.
 
Just the fact that the thieves didn't get everything has made my day brighter, I hope you find many more of these treasure boxes, and they are all full of many more beautiful knives.
 
No, they cleaned out just what they knew was easy to locate, the most hurtful to me was my collection of 165OT pattern knives. But even there they overlooked the new in the box examples going back to the first production in 1966. And took many low production and even one-of-a-kinds. But life goes on. Work is cancelled due to incoming rain so I'll see what else I can dig up.
 
Codger_64 said:
They missed these as well, sitting right out in the open. Six per side, four sides, all 897UH variants.

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Wow - that's a beautiful display Michael, it must have taken a massive amount of work to complete such a task!
I am glad the lowlife missed this, and thank you for your answers to my and everyone else's questions - that TL Schrade did stand out to me - once viewing the closer photo I can see why - thanks for that as I have never seen a Schrade Cut Co TL29!
 
Great to see those all together Glenn :thumbup:

Duncan! Check your PMs! :D
 
Done So Jack my friend - thank you so much.
Glenn - what an impressive line up - again you can se the painstaking work involved! That's a brilliant collection on it's own right there Sir!
 
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