latest OLDIE pawn shop find

[Seals]

Hey guys! I thought ya'll might get a kick out of my lastest find.I've seen this style of old knife in books ,but never even had one in hand that i recall.She's well made with great tight action.Iron bolsters and Walnut i think.I haven't drug my books out yet,but didn't they call these pruners?

 

[Frostyfingers]

Interesting! Do you have any idea why it's so wide? Nice knife, in any case.

Frostyfingers

 

[Seals]

Interesting! Do you have any idea why it's so wide? Nice knife, in any case.

Frostyfingers

Some special purpose design?Heck if i know really.

 

[waynorth]

I believe you have a budding knife for pecan growers. Used to cut and graft buds on a precise piece of bark, to add a branch where you want it.

 

[Mack]

I've never seen one of those. Cool, now I have a reason to get out Levine's book and do some searching.

 

[Frostyfingers]

This is pure conjecture, but I wonder if the blades are intended to be used in tandem, to create a specifically spaced pair of cuts the same way every time. This really has my interest piqued.

 

[knarfeng]

I believe you have a budding knife for pecan growers. Used to cut and graft buds on a precise piece of bark, to add a branch where you want it.

I believe you have your ID.
If you need to, you can also ask in the Bernard Levine Forum.

 

[C Ben Susrool]

Hey Don,
Looks as if the center wood could be hollowed out and would make a good place to hide a knife.

 

[supratentorial]

Neat find, Don! I wonder who made it for Maher & Grosh.

 

[Seals]

Neat find, Don! I wonder who made it for Maher & Grosh.

I have no idea even who Maher & Grosh is.Were they an outfitter or hardware store maybe?

 

[supratentorial]

Don, they were a retailer... Here's some background info, http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/741410-MAHER-amp-GROSH-Toledo-O It looks like your knife also has serif typeface... but I don't know if that would indicate Ulster as the maker..

Their (contracted) knives were high end stuff.

 

[Obsessed with Edges]

I have no idea even who Maher & Grosh is.Were they an outfitter or hardware store maybe?

There's a post from Bernard in BRL's forum, in a thread started by our own Duncan ('Campbellclanman'), about the history of the 'Maher & Grosh' mark:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...AHER-amp-GROSH-Toledo-O?p=8214196#post8214196

That knife's a neat find, Don. Very cool! :thumbup:

Edit: Looks like Jake beat me to it!

 

[Seals]

Thanks Jake and David,I had just googled that very thread.Quite interesting.With the iron bolsters and it looks like the pivot pin is hand peened.I'm thinking it's quite old.I love finding oddball stuff like this.

 

[GRIM 62]

That's interesting,never seen one of those before.-Jim

 

[Campbellclanman]

Thats a really neat find Don!..well done, that is one very interesting knife-just WOW!
I find it most embarrassing looking back....this was my FIRST introduction to Folders...... I havent stopped spiralling ( downwards ) yet!!

 

[akadave2]

I'm surprised it hasn't been moved over to the identification subform.

 

[knarfeng]

If the thread had been struggling, I might have moved it. But the answers have been forthcoming right here, so there was no need.

 

[Mack]

Page 197 in Bernard's book, #IV of course, has a pretty good write up about these Budding/Grafting knives.
Cool find. If I'd found one I think I would have bought it just because I didn't know what it was.

 

[akadave2]

I believe you have your ID.
If you need to, you can also ask in the Bernard Levine Forum.

I guess I was confused, I posted an odd pocket knife and Peregrin moved in in less than two hours after two posts. Ill get the hang of this yet...

 

[bakerg2g]

That's a dandy.. Pecan budder! Nice piece of history right there.


Jason