Nashville Finds -- Who likes Cattle Knives?

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TheGent

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I love 'em. There is nothing I like more in my pocket than a good cattle knife or stock knife. Went up to Nashville for some one on one time with the sweetheart and stumbled on a gun show. She suggested we go in. God I love her! I didn't bother with the guns because I always run into problems having them shipped back to a dealer in my home town across state lines. So, my main focus was knives. Came across these two for $50 each. My girlfriend bought me the one up top in the open position. It's a New York Knife Co Walden. The one closed (same blade configuration) is a John Primble India Steel Works and has a slightly darker brown bone. Just wanted to show 'em off.

Enjoy,

TheGent
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Those are really nice. Congrats. Do the knife world a favor and clone your girlfriend.

Are their swedges on the blades?
 
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That you are.

Great gal. Excellent cutlery.

Congrats on both!
 
Nice Cattle knives, Gent! One of my favorite patterns.
 
Thanks again, guys. It is a great patern for sure. I wish I could find a cattle knife that size, but with a punch blade. I have the GEC yellow rose. It's a bit on the large side and spends most of its time in a bug out bag. A medium size, like those above, but with a punch. Anyone know of any?
 
Very nice and both those patterns are my favorites! I lived in middle TN for 26 years and worked in Nashville the same lenght of time including 15 of those at the TNANG. When you see some of my older knives they more then likely came from a G&K Show in Nashville. I was raised in east TN.
 
Those are nice knives, but not old. They were likely made by Utica, under subcontract, possibly for a Jim Parker.
 
I had a similar cattle knife marked Wards (photo below). I have also seen them marked Kutmaster and Coca-Cola. I suspected that all had a Utica lineage but I did not know about the connection with Parker... but come to think of it, one of Parker's business partners (?) or friends (?) sold quite a few of them on the big auction site. I carried the Wards and it's a nice knife and took a keen edge.

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The nicest thing about those very usable knives was(is) the jigged bone handles!
They did a good job on most variations of it! Nice random jigging and deep colors. I wonder if it came from Rogers, before they shut down, ca. 1962?
 
Congratz on that girl! And congratz to that nice knives. Great shields and bone :)

Kind regards
Andi
 
Great deal all the way around. I have been using a Browning large stockman with rosewood handle and brassBrowning Stockman.jpg bolsters for many years. I think the stockman has a nice selection of blades.
 
waynorth said:
Those are nice knives, but not old. They were likely made by Utica, under subcontract, possibly for a Jim Parker.
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Yes on both counts. Parker had a number of similiar knives listed in his catalogues from the early 1990s. I have a few of these with different scales, shields, blade configurations and handle designs. Most are marked Kutmaster Utica NY.

Heres a surveyor pattern marked Kutmaster
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A 3 blade canoe marked Miller Bros Celebrated Cutlery
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A 6 blade cattle knife marked Kutmaster
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