Oh My Gosh!

waynorth

waynorth

Knifemaker / Craftsman / Service Provider
Joined
Nov 19, 2005
Messages
33,200
It's a Maher & Grosh!:D

Pammy the Postie felt sorry for me, because I missed the Blade show, so she stuck this knife in my mailbox today.
All the way from New Zealand, and likely made by Ulster a while back, it was probably a premium from Fur, Fish and Game magazine. It is 3 15/16" long.
Another knife with many names, Winchester at one time called this pattern a Crooked Jack!!:eek:
Check out Levine's Guide #4, page 187 for some discussion on the subject.
I usually prefer calling it a Slim Serpentine Jack, although "Crooked" IS kinda cool!!:D
MG4.jpg

MG1.jpg

MG3.jpg

MG2.jpg

I'd like to thank Campbellclanman for parting with the knife! And for so carefully shipping it all the way here to the Great White North!
Thanks Duncan!!:thumbup:
 
Now ain't that nice! You guys are going to get me in to collecting vintage knives with all these pictures and threads hahah.
 
Great looking addition, Charlie. Congrats!!!
 
"Oh my gosh" is right! Great bone & jigging on that one. :thumbup:

thx - cpr
 
a great oldie the only reason i do'nt collect these knives is i do'nt have the 200,000$ one needs to build a decent collection. but i still drool over them.
 
That was a nice knife.

Do you think that this was a basic level knife when it was made or is it a modell made to be more beautiful than average?

Jackknifes with that bladeconfiguration was rather common in Sweden in the old days but the differense between US and sweden is that they seem to float up in your country, but in sweden even if I have looked for soon to be 10 year I never found one in good condition! I once talked to ouer pawnshop and the man working there said he gathered up and sold all foldingknifes in good kondition to a colector in Norway. He has junk in his shop but....

Congratulations to a great knife.

Bosse
 
That one is a looker Charlie. I find the slim serpentine jack much more attractive with the pen complementing a sabre ground clip, than the traditional trapper pattern with the large spey blade.
 
That's a realy nice knife Charlie. It looks to have been well used but not abused. I'll bet that that knife will sharpen up nicely.

I like the look of my older knives in my knife box. They are all sharpened and look like they're asking me to put them to work again.
 
neeman said:
Beautiful bone

How old?
Click to expand...

Neeman, the knife was posted in Bernie Levine's forum, and there is general agreement the knife is from the 1920s-1930s.

http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=741410

Lambertiana, the pen blade looks original to the knife. The lack of a tang stamp on it may point to it being made later in the time frame, but who knows for sure??:confused:

Everyone, thanks for the positive comments!:thumbup:
 
M.Gosh! They are imitating the shield on the forthcoming Forum Knife:D

That bone is actually succulent, wish I could get a couple of my wards re-scaled with something like that:thumbup:
 
Charlie..can I just pop in here and say something?

Dealing with waynorth was a totally positive experience, if anything I have learnt-that the blade forum here does have some absolute fantastic people here to talk to about knives, to learn about them, and share the .......... well, I guess .... "passion" would describe how we feel about knives.
I am starting to fall for the folders-which is very scary-as I know very little about this part of the knife world, and boy is there SO much more to learn in the folder world- which unfortunately involves HAVING TO LEARN about faking that is prolific in the folder world.
Folders are new to me, and to be honest fixed blades have always been "my cup of tea"...but when I saw this ( the MAHER & GROSH ) for sale..I liked the look of the jigged bone SO much I bought it, as stated I know little about folders/slipjoints ( whatever term is preferred ), BUT I did know that the knife looked well made.
The more I looked, the more I fell for this knife, but Charlie came along and slowly pried it from my grasp lol.
3 things that were 100% positive came from me buying this knife....


1, It helped me immensley in buying my type of dream knife, a genuine 1850's Sheffield knife - that still has lovely etching etc...( that will be posted on Bernards forum inside 2 days time ).
2, It came to be in Charlies hands-whos type of knife is the folder or slipjoint ( whatever happened to good old pocket knife? ).
3, I got to deal with yet another knife forum member, whom got a good buy, and I made a good sale- how good does it get?

Its good to see the positive comments that Charlie is getting on his purchase, and it was good to recieve mine when I posted it, I just want to say...Charlie, thank you very much for the deal, Im glad you are happy with the knife, Im glad I sold it to you.

Have a great day everyone, and I hope that you enjoy looking at this fantastic knife..I have a suspicion that I may regret selling this knife, but holding my new "baby" ( the 1850's Sheffield ) makes everything pretty darn good.
Thank you for reading my rave :D

p.s Another thing..the Maher & Grosh has definetly sparked something off in me about the folding knife world, so I am going to regularly buy my lotto tickets from now on.
 
NirreBosse said:
That was a nice knife.

Do you think that this was a basic level knife when it was made or is it a modell made to be more beautiful than average?

Jackknifes with that bladeconfiguration was rather common in Sweden in the old days but the differense between US and sweden is that they seem to float up in your country, but in sweden even if I have looked for soon to be 10 year I never found one in good condition! I once talked to ouer pawnshop and the man working there said he gathered up and sold all foldingknifes in good kondition to a colector in Norway. He has junk in his shop but....

Congratulations to a great knife.

Bosse
Click to expand...

Bosse, with the complex blade grind, and threaded bolsters, and nicely jigged bone, I think this was (is) much more than a basic level knife. The shape of the handle pattern is much more difficult to detail and haft than a straight Jack.
As an example, this more plain Jack has straight sides - easier to sand and polish without losing the clean profile. And it is much easier to fit the handle material to one bolster, than to fit it precisely between two of them!
UberCam3.jpg
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top