Jack's Random Tuesday Carry

I have to leave early tomorrow, so thought I'd do my random dip tonight :) :thumbsup:

It's been a while since I last carried a Stockman, and this one is by Taylor's Eye Witness :) I remember paying £9 for it, as I had done the antique shop owner a favour the previous week :) :thumbsup:

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This was in a baggie with some baking soda, and is again. I spoiled a bit of history by peeling off the $5 sticker.
The pen looks like it's been broken and repointed. The spear is weak in walk and talk, with just a ghost of opening snap.
I don't remember it at all, but my guess would be an estate sale, and because I never got to an estate sale on the first day, maybe I got it for half of $5.
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Jack Black said:
Interesting Jer, what do you reckon the story is there?
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At first I thought somebody had modified an Old Hickory type, but I have maybe four roughly made knives with similar blade stock and handle material, and I wonder if they represent make-your-own-knife kits that somebody sold in the margins of a sporting magazine. Not that I remember them if they did. The blade shapes are all different, so it wasn't like the fully finished blades you send away for nowadays.
 
screened porch said:
At first I thought somebody had modified an Old Hickory type, but I have maybe four roughly made knives with similar blade stock and handle material, and I wonder if they represent make-your-own-knife kits that somebody sold in the margins of a sporting magazine. Not that I remember them if they did. The blade shapes are all different, so it wasn't like the fully finished blades you send away for nowadays.
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That was my thought too Jer, but that is even more interesting :cool: :thumbsup:
 
This was in one of the tackle boxes I don't look into much. Maybe my first of these.
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I paid a little more for it than I might have, because I thought. H.M. Slater might be a ship.
HMS Later would be a good name for a warship.
 
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screened porch said:
This was in one of the tackle boxes I don't look into much. Maybe my first of these.
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I paid a little more for it than I might have, because I thought. H.M. Slater might be a ship.
HMS Later would be a good name for a warship.
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Good thinking Jer, old Mrs Slater used to sometimes visit Stan Shaw at his workshop. I don't think there were many firms making those knives by 1951 👍
 
I re-built this plastic-handled Mikov several years ago, and don’t think I’ve carried it since I did. Today it bubbled up from the bottom of the “random knives and embarrassingly amateurish projects” drawer…

 
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