Let's see your traditional mammoth and/or ivory

[ptradeco]

I only have a limited number of pics uploaded to my IPad, but have been coming across a fair bit of ivory recently....

Couple there I would like to get friendly with

 

[ptradeco]

Interesting how ivory changes over time. I suspect it has more to do with environmental influences than anything. For example I have some 100+ year old cue balls where a couple are still quite white, stored in a box all these years versus a couple I have that are all mottled and yellow. All those years in a smokey billiard room I suppose. Contrast the ivory on these. All around 100 years old.

 

[greg c]

There's just something about ivory, thanks for the great thread.

GEC 33, the first ivory knife that ever found its way into my collection and which can more often than not be found in my pocket or on the kitchen cutting board.



A Queen country cousin with postfactory preban ivory covers:





Derrick's fantastic Northfield Madison:





Northfield 85 Mammoth:





Northfield 66 Slim Mammoth:





My apologies to the elephants and mammoths, I did not do them justice with these pictures.

 

[SBuzek]

4-3-5/8" Bullet pattern trappers I made a couple of years ago. All Mammoth.

 

[chuko]

Here are a couple of my customs with mammoth.

Jim Dunlap

Menefee swayback

 

[meako]

Nothing plain Jane about that. Just the thought that it walked the earth 10,000 years ago is pure awesomeness.

- Neal

My thoughts exactly:thumbup: Its tuskriffic,it's mammoth molacious.

 

[hartlogan]

Here are a couple of my customs with mammoth.

Are there blue specs in that Menefee? That's gorgeous :thumbup:

 

[chuko]

Yes there are blue elements in the mammoth covers on the Menefee SWB. John did a good job of showing them in his photos. They are most visible on the pile side, but they are also on the mark side.

 

[pvicenzi]

:grumpy:I can't post a picture here.:grumpy: I love mamoth, but for some reason I don't have any traditionals in mammoth. I may have to do something about that.

 

[meako]

I like this pic -same knife tho.

 

[Jack Black]

Some great knives and beautiful pics here :thumbup:

 

[pertinux]

My sole ivory knife is a GEC #26.

It's very photogenic.

As for Ivory? There's nothing else like it, in looks and touch.

I am grateful to have this knife.

~ P.

 

[ptradeco]

Some great knives and beautiful pics here :thumbup:

Nice pile Jack. The knife, lower left, appears to be a Snuff knife. Interesting to have one in ivory. The ones I encounter are generally very cheaply constructed. Not in this case! Mind sharing a few particulars?

 

[Jack Black]

Nice pile Jack. The knife, lower left, appears to be a Snuff knife. Interesting to have one in ivory. The ones I encounter are generally very cheaply constructed. Not in this case! Mind sharing a few particulars?

Thanks a lot Brad, I need to take some better pics! I originally posted about this knife and it's companion, which were very kindly sent to me by Duncan, here:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/1123883-Sincere-Thanks-to-The-Campbellclanman

Unfortunately, those rogues at Imageshack have reneged on their promise and removed the pics :thumbdn:

However, Duncan posted some better pics in this thread here in Mr Levine's forum:

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/s...Please-help-with-any-info?highlight=ear+spoon

And from the All-Knowing One himself:

Ear spoon & toothpicks.

Made in Nixdorf, Czechoslovakia, in the 1920s - 1930s.

Sold for under a penny wholesale then.

Info from a gent who remembered buying them at the time. And from pix in Nixdorf pattern books.

BRL...

 

[ptradeco]

Pp

Thanks a lot Brad, I need to take some better pics! I originally posted about this knife and it's companion, which were very kindly sent to me by Duncan

Thanks Jack. Learn something new all the time. Wonder how the term Snuff knife became so widely used.

 

[Jack Black]

Pp

Thanks Jack. Learn something new all the time. Wonder how the term Snuff knife became so widely used.

I guess it sounds better than ear-wax knife!

Here's a Needham Brothers I picked up recently

 

[quattro98]

#66 calf roper slim

 

[HSC ///]

it has a thumbstud but hopefully this is still considered a traditional?

 

[jerryd6818]

Camillus 1047 Scout done in pre-ban elephant ivory for me by Wallace Rockwell.

 

[Peregrin]

it has a thumbstud but hopefully this is still considered a traditional?

Mr. Pease makes some wonderful knives. Yours is certainly one of them!
In general knives with thumbstuds DON'T meet the definition we have established for traditional knives in this forum.
I'd show that baby off in the Custom & Handmade Knives forum.