"Old Knives"

[1fartsmella]

Charlie, Thats a nice old Cami, I'm guessing it came together with that Cami "Never Dull" Coke Bottle. (I was watching from the sidelines). I like them both.

 

[1fartsmella]

An Equal End Jack stamped ULSTER DWIGHT DIVINE & SONS on the master Blade and ULSTER KNIFE CO on the pen.

And a Bare Head Jack Marked the same.

 

[waynorth]

Great old knife Charlie, I like them like that. Some one on another thread was questioning Ebony, looks like that one survived OK.

I can't say I've seen more cracked Ebony, than cracked Bone; quite the other way around. I wonder how long the Ebony bits on a Stradivarius last before they crack. 300 years is a lot of vibrating!

 

[waynorth]

Charlie, Thats a nice old Cami, I'm guessing it came together with that Cami "Never Dull" Coke Bottle. (I was watching from the sidelines). I like them both.

Good guess!

Your Ulster collection has some beauties in it Barry! Thanks for showing them.:thumbup:

 

[VCM3]

"Shefield built, 1858 - 1890, 3 1/4" closed. Tortoise hafted, nickel silver fittings including the extended milled liners which form the outer housing for the cigar cutter. The
" cone" into which you insert the cigar is fitted and soldered to the cutter body formed by the liners. You press down on the tab that extends up out of the liner and the cutter blade pops up so you can then insert the tip of your cigar down into the cone. You then press
downward on the " bullseye " or circular pad on the back of the cutter blade, forcing the tapered, wedge shaped cutter blade through the very tip of your cigar. Carried and used extensively. The pen blade has been heavily sharpened down. I tried to show you the cutter open, closed, and halfway open from the cigar's vantage point. Brookes and Crookes remained in business on into the 1940's ."

 

[VCM3]

Here's the rest of 'em...

 

[Mike Robuck]

Cool tool. :thumbup:

 

[wellington]

Neat little t/shell 3 pc Brookes & Crookes. The nippers and trumpets fitted to these smokers knives were often imported from Germany.

Mick.

 

[JB in SC]

That's a lovely smoker's knife.

 

[Will Power]

Tortoise is a wonderful scale material, superb pictures.

 

[waynorth]

That smokers knife is a nice little machine, Vince. Thanks to you and your friend for posting it here!
Here is the younger and smaller brother of the big Camillus Jack from a few posts ago.
From ca. 1930, it has the 4-line stamps, and was made for a dealer called Butler Bros.
Their trademark for pocketknives was "Warranted Never Dull", as the etch says.
This knife is not that sharp; maybe that's why the Butlers went out of business ca. 1940!!??
Whatever, it is still a purty knife, and given what I've seen of other Camillus knives of this era, I've no doubt it'll sharpen fine. But I'm not willing to give up any molecules on this safe queen! ( hint to the collector mentality!)

I thought I would add Ken . . . . .I mean, the Knifemakers' view;

 

[VCM3]

I like that one alot Charlie !
-Vince

 

[VCM3]

I like that one alot Charlie !
-Vince

I like this one alot,too...
"3 7/8" closed, all steel. 1890 - 1920, used, carried, sharpened, very heavy springs on both blades, extended spring on pen side. I use this for trimming and scribing along a straightedge and more often for cutting up cardboard and opening cardboard boxes. No danger of the blade snapping closed on your fingers. A big sheepsfoot is a very handy blade to have. This one is 1/8" thick"

 

[JB in SC]

Very nice knife. It slightly resembles the Case Loomfixer pattern.

 

[Mike Robuck]

That's a really nice curved jack.

 

[JatMat]

Now that has my attention, got to run and get paper towels to clean all the drool off the keyboard. Love it, WTB it. But know I could not afford it.
Jim

 

[Tony Bose]

Very nice knife. It slightly resembles the Case Loomfixer pattern.

The loom fixer resembles the IXL JB. The IXL pattern SBJ was being 50 years before Case went into business.

 

[JB in SC]

The loom fixer resembles the IXL JB. The IXL pattern SBJ was being 50 years before Case went into business.

I should have known that

 

[waynorth]

Real nice SBJ. They look good with a sheepfoot blade!

 

[cnas122]

Sorry for the bad pics

Schrade

Shapleigh Hardware

Unmarked, but I like to refer to it as the "Homer Simpson". A little work on the blade and I got it hair splitten sharp. Good, old carbon...yummy