"Old Knives"

Primble said:
Thank you my friend ! :thumbsup:☺️
I have one of those "Universal" food choppers and a late 1800's No. 11 coffee mill made by L.F. & C., which kinda inspired me to the Pruner. ( As if I need inspiration to seek out an old knife ) ;) ☺️
They both work as good as new.

You see all those ball bearings in the handle ? 😊
The coffee mill normally resides on my kitchen counter. I keep my empty knife tubes in those wooden boxes.😇

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Wonderful shelf's worth of antiques!!
 
Luger1952 said:
Thanks guys for all your nice comments on my stag Schrades—much appreciated!

Thanks John for posting this information about the 972 congress—great stuff!! The 884, 894 and the 972 were all $30.00
apiece in 1956😁 Factoring in inflation ($1.00 in 1956 would be the equivalent of $10.89 in 2022) which would make
these knives cost $327.00 each in 2022.
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Thats actually 30 bucks a dozen or 2.50 a piece, sure would love to find a factory box full for 2.50 a piece but I bet thats not going to happen.
 
i just realized after a little cleaning that the metal in my dad's old camillus pl-29 (pix above) aside from the blades, is yellow - that means it's from early ww2 before they needed brass for ammo, i believe.

more when i continue the cleaning.

docflash said:
I found this in a box of my late dad's old tools. he was a SeaBee in WW2 in the South Pacific.

it was a solid block of rust when I found it: neither blade opened. I soaked it in penetrating oil a few days, rinsed it in 91% alcohol & found this. after trying to clean it, seems to be a Camillus TL-29.

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Yeah, Walden Knife Company, Schrade, et al. They were all doing it in Walden and surrounding towns, and the cutlers were walking back and forth between the buildings depending on the day, whoever had the best baseball teams, sandwiches, wages, etc. It was a circus but they sure could make knives.
 
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