Let's see 'em, I know ya got 'em. Knives handled in MOTS

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MOTS
(Mother Of Toilet Seat).

Here is one of mine:

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Yup, yup. I got one, and I'm not too proud to show it. I think it is my only MOTS though. I just couldn't pass up this little Ulster for the condition/price.

Where would you get a new peanut with a saber ground blade and a swedge and a long pull for $15 ?

AND....it's solid MOTS, not veneer ! :D

Fran
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I just went and checked but I don't have fancy toilet seats in my house..
 
I've got one, but need to break the camera out. And it's a crappy one too ! The knife. . . .not the camera. :cool:
 
The only one I have. Its been tipped pretty bad but its got some life left in it. I picked it up for $5 so I use it once in a while.
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Mother of toilet seats. Now thats funny.Here's my contribution. Living in Mass., they're everywhere around here.
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I had one in the fisherman's pattern. It was a friend's knife; left behind when he moved off to Wisconsin. A blue ink pen had leaked in the same pocket, so it had a blue spot staining the cracked ice look. I mailed it back to him earlier this year. I sort of miss them both these days.
 
unsub said:
What exactly is "MOTS"?
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Back in the day a few makers made some economy or Industrial revolutionalized made knives with stamped handles and they covered them with sheet celluloid or plastic.2 in R.I. Imperial and Colonial and a Richards out of England that I know of.
 
I almost forgot my Bulldog....but it's not sheet celluloid so I don't know if it qualifies.

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navihawk said:
Back in the day a few makers made some economy or Industrial revolutionalized made knives with stamped handles and they covered them with sheet celluloid or plastic.2 in R.I. Imperial and Colonial and a Richards out of England that I know of.
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That doesn't quite explain MOTS.

You have to be old enough to remember that toilet seats were covered with this same cracked ice pattern celluloid back in the 40's & 50's.

Fran
 
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Not all of my examples are genuine. Some are Faux MOTS.
 
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Ahh, the poor maligned MOTS finally gets the spotlight! Here's my one and only:

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Eric
 
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