I.XL George Wostenholm slipjoint.

I'mSoSharp

I'mSoSharp

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I was recently given this old slipjoint, any information would be great.
What I really like is it appears to have a carbon & a stainless blade, only the smaller stainless blade is stamped with the manufacturer, & with "stainless" on the back. Scales are some kind of plastic? It's 3 1/2" closed.

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Thanks.
 
Thanks for the replies, I should have said I'm in the UK where this would have been originally purchased.

I remember seeing a slipjoint before with a carbon & stainless blade but don't remember where, was it common for slipjoints to have different blade materials? It's an aspect of this knife I really rather like. At first sight I thought it had Buffalo horn scales but they are some form of plastic, anyone know the correct name?

Thanks again.
 
Case made some #54 pattern trappers in the past with a CV clip blade and a Tru-Sharp spey blade with the etch, "For Flesh Only" on the spey.
 
I have a TEW, which was marketed with a stainless blade and a carbon steel blade. I have also come across other Sheffield knives, which also have a mixture, but I think that probably happened because old blades got mixed up (and in a few cases where knives have been re-bladed), or where the cutlers putting them together didn't really care. Knives of this pattern were produced by Wostenholm in the 1930's, but the pattern did not end then. The scan here
belongs to @smiling-knife, but I'm afraid the resolution is not big enough to read the description. Perhaps a higher resolution copy can be found. Wostenholm were already producing some knives with stainless blades by this period though.

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Covers of this type were still been used for Wostenholm knives in the 1980's.
 
Thank you very much Jack Black Jack Black , left hand page top right nailed it I think :thumbsup: Though the larger carbon blade on mine has no markings.

I thought it strange having mixed blades but I like it, I don't think it's been repaired but can imagine it being assembled just using what's on hand.
 
I'mSoSharp said:
Thank you very much Jack Black Jack Black , left hand page top right nailed it I think :thumbsup: Though the larger carbon blade on mine has no markings.

I thought it strange having mixed blades but I like it, I don't think it's been repaired but can imagine it being assembled just using what's on hand.
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You're welcome :) It's worth remembering that all the Sheffield cutlery firms always outsourced work to jobbing cutlers (Little Mesters) and smaller cutlery firms, and that blades and parts were spread all over Sheffield. Understandably, particularly after those firms were wound up, and there was no more work from them, the parts wouldn't have been wasted. Even today, there are plenty of old stamped blades still turning up. Just a couple of years ago, Stan Shaw made me a Stockman with IXL-Schrade parts, which had been given to him by the last of the Slater cutlers, who were presumably doing some work for them. Apart from the non-standard buffalo horn covers, and the fact the blades have been polished, this pattern matches a knife made soon after Imperial acquired the Rodgers-Wostenholm-Richards group, but it was actually only made up around two years ago. Dating Sheffield knives is never an exact science :thumbsup:
 
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