'New' Bruckmann

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Bob W

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Here's a Bruckmann knife from Solingen, Germany that I just aquired via a large auction website.

In the days before the black plastic fad and armyboy-wannabe "tactical" knives, this is what I imagine gentlemen and businessmen around the world used for EDC pocketknives.

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The seller said he bought this knife about 20 years ago, so it's reasonable to assume this knife was part of the huge Bruckmann warehouse find from the 1970s or 1980s.

I hadn't seen this pattern before and the price was "practically free," as I always tell Wife. Seriously, comparing to current production prices, it ~was~ an incredible bargain. It's absolutely beautiful and the fit and finish is second to none; no modern factory knives I've seen can compare.

Here is a scan showing the current status of my Bruckmann collection:

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Just thought some of you might be interested.
-Bob
 
The most beautiful material in the set is the gray cracked ice celluloid. I'd love to find knives in each pattern with that.

The french ivory looks much better in person than in that scan too.

The plasti-stag in the bottom left is uuugly, but it's got a good grip. Appropriate I suppose, being it's a workman's utility knife.

-Bob
 
Pretty nice collection of Brückmann knives, Bob! :thumbup:

Much more various than my poor Brückmann "collection".

I`ve 6 with stainless blades and cowhorn scales, 6 stainless with wooden scales, 6 carbon steel blades with cowhorn scales, 6 carbon steel with wooden scales and only one with gray cracked ice celluloid scales where I believe it`s got stainless blades but I`m not totally sure about. :confused::D

I like the cowhorn the best because of it`s multifarious play of colours. :thumbup:
 
Wolfgang, I'm still jealous over your own "warehouse find" from a while back. I've never seen another one of those serpentine whittlers (or whatever they're called) anywhere else.

I like the cowhorn the best because of it`s multifarious play of colours.
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That's for sure. There are six cattle horn handles in the photo, and no two are even similar. I wonder though, if the knife on the bottom right is "cattle horn celluloid." I've heard of that, but don't know how to identify it or distinguish it from genuine celluloid. The reason I suspect the bottom right knife, some sections are transparent and some of the pattern looks more like swirls than grains.

That red brown celluloid (left-side row) is unusual also, and a bit striking in real life.

The most unusual knife in the entire set is the equal-end lobster with a hidden backspring and yellow-pearl celluloid. Never seen another one of those from any maker.

-Bob
 
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