My Knives so far ..picture heavy!!

Hey Dennis...who could ever mind you posting in hteir thread??...thanks for sharing your knives-its great!
Mr Fowler-always a pleasure:thumbup:, as it is with Mick, Charlie, willgoy, jeff, sappyg, runningmike, Steve ...thank you guys...it great to get comments as such from guys like yourselves...thank you!
 
Very interesting collection, Duncan.

I am intrigued by the fixed blade knife with what looks like a nail nick???

Thanks for sharing.

Glenn
 
Duncan,
Thanks so much for sharing your treasures. After years of tacticals, micarta and super steels, it's so refreshing to go back to the basics. Your knives take me back to woods walking with my father and those "crazy" camping trips with my daughters. Thank you for the memories.
Nick
 
glennbad said:
Very interesting collection, Duncan.

I am intrigued by the fixed blade knife with what looks like a nail nick???

Thanks for sharing.

Glenn
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Hey there Glenn, Im not too sure which one you mean?...I have desciptions above all photos-please come back to me and let me know-cheers!

Nick-it is my pleasure Sir!...thank you :thumbup:
 
Campbellclanman said:
Hey there Glenn, Im not too sure which one you mean?...
Nick-it is my pleasure Sir!...thank you :thumbup:
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i think glenn is refering to the small william rogers knife.... i noticed it too. i've never seen a william rogers or a fixed blade with a nail nick.... it is very interesting.
 
Hi Keith, the smaller William Rodgers has no nail nick at all-it must be a catch of reflection...
Good keen eyes though guys :thumbup:
 
thatnks duncan.

if it's not too much trouble i sure would like to read up on that 1860 etched bowie you have there. do you have a link?
 
Hi there Kieth, ...sure just send $50 to...:D

Here is the link in Bernards forum when I first placed it...I hope this helps?...if not ... I dont know if I can help you much.
When I first saw it, I was talking to Charlie, and I knew the knife looked good, but for the decent price that I bought it for...was still a lot of money..so I paid Bernard his very reasonable "looky" fee..he came back with everything I had suspected...that it was genuine-and I should go for it-I did, and it has traveled to good ol' New Zealand.
I consider myself pretty damned lucky, as I still have the original sheath, the etching is in such awesome condition..and get this....NO sharpening marks whatsoever, the pommel has slight movement-but man...I am one VERY happy, lucky owner of a genuine American Civil war period Bowie knife.
Bernards link...

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=748436
 
thanks duncan,
that is a special knife. the etching is really nice and clean. i really apreciate getting to see such a fine example of history in such good condition.
 
Campbellclanman said:
...along with what I think is a real nice old skinner-this knife is 5 pinned-with small tidy pins, the knife is tapered both ways-as in down the tang length-ways, but also from top of spine down as well...a very well made old skinner.
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I have a knife like yours, and I agree with you...what excellent REAL knife!!

The construction (tapered both ways) are fantastic....and, i think, impoisble in a modern knife.

of course all of your collection are marvellous
 
Great knives Campell - I'm sorta new on this forum but I know Waynorth. I have an ivory Sheffield folder like yours by Henry Hobson dating to 1910. I also just picked up a bowie made by W H Wragg. Levine's book shows him in business from 1871 to 1955 but not much else is known about him. Probably one of the Wragg family.
 
Hello Duncan. I want to say a very special thanks for taking the time to show off some of your collection--which is very, very nice. It is just OK to see them in books, but when you get to see them on the computer screen it brings them to more life like. I really enjoyed looking at all of them. Most I have never seen. You have a keen eye and a very special collection. Be very proud.
Harold
 
That is a great collection Duncan. Price isn't everything. I love what you have. Especially your Queen Stockman. Looks gorgeous.
 
Don't sound so modest, you have an amazing collection, and you have great taste. You obviously respect quality and history, thats all that matters.
Anyone can buy the hottest new knife that got a write up in the latest blade mag, but you're better than that.
When I started collecting in the middle of the 90's tactical boom, I remember selling my Al Mar MACVSOG to "move up" to a custom combat fixed blade (the latest hotest thing). Well, they're both gone now, but I know for a fact that the Al Mar has doubled in price since then and that other custom, eh, not so much. I miss the AM but can't spend that kind of money now on one knife to buy back that part of my youth. I can obtain the custom easily. The Al Mar while not being that old, "oozes" military history in its design. The manufacture excells even by todays American custom made standards.
My purchases in the 90's had no history or meaning behind them, just cool stuff. Of course after selling it all off, I now know which ones I really liked and should of kept. My point is YOU know whats important to you, and your knives have meaning. You can't put a price on that.
I hope in another fifteen years I can look back at the stuff I'm collecting now, and see stories and memories behind them, not just as possesions.
This is why my current collecting of the past year is more meaningfull to me and I get so much more pleasure out of it.
YOU have obviously already been in that "zone" with your collecting. Never discount that.

The pics you just showed us have as much validity (if not more) as someone's twenty thousand dollar Microtech / Busse / Randall / Loveless / etc, etc collection.
Thanks again and keep adding to it, you have a great eye.
 
wow...this is an older thread re-awoken!!...
What was in the milk today over there guys?? :D
I have just finished a buying spree, that has left me somewhat crippled...and worried!!...some should have arrived by now...heres what I am waiting for...
Blade forum knife...
Keenweel 1920's fixed blade-( I am just chomping at the bit to see this one )
Stag olsen fixed blade
A nice older Buck older scroll, and a tidy wee crasftman to bang in my car.
A couple of minta Carl Schlieper slippies
A queen amber bone & Schlieper Stag & Schatt & Morgan Slippie
Ohta Wharnie with Stag to die for
Custom Stag trapper
Winchester 80's coffin handled Jack
Winchester 80's nice bone Whittler
Stag custom folder
Walrus stabalised bone scaled custom folder
2 other stag custom folders
Old German Jack-bone handle-a roughy-but a beaut.

No doubt the blood will rush to my head and I will have to take another batch of photos :o
I am not too sure about you guys..but I just LOVE looking at my blade forum brothers knives... its kinda like an invite in a way to explore their taste in knives, their passion for their collection...and so on, let alone the eye candy.
Thanks for the comments...I get a lot out of looking at everyones knives here :thumbup:
 
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