"Old Knives"

There is an article about Clay Cutlery and A.J.Jordan in November 2008 KnifeWorld magazine.
You can buy back issues at knifeworld.com.
 
navihawk said:
A large and a small clip. thats a new one for me.
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The mention of two clips reminded me of this knife I salted away some time ago!
Thanks Navi!!

A 4-blade stockman, whose praises Anthony has sung in a thread below this, is a very useful tool. This one is like a "Muskrat-Plus", with its two varying clip blades with a spey, and a punch that my guess, predates Camillus's ubiquitous spiral punch.
Nicely made, is has all tangs 4-line stamped indicating an early knife. The tempering must be correct, because all the snaps are like new, despite wear on all blades. Another reason to lament the passage of Camillus's good old days!
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That is a great knife Charlie ! I love the way the bolsters on old knives are a backward dovetail (for lack of a better term.) Any way we could get a top shot with the blades closed please?
 
That one nice Charlie. Two types of clips. A regular and a California clip.I wonder if the different style clips had different purposes.Maybe one for skinning and one for filleting
 
4ever3 said:
That is a great knife Charlie ! I love the way the bolsters on old knives are a backward dovetail (for lack of a better term.) Any way we could get a top shot with the blades closed please?
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Here you go, 4ever3!
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I don't have a Blade Show haul, or even a non-Blade Show haul, or even a "new" old knife to post here. I do have this tool by Will & Finck, so maybe it was made next to some bowies and push daggers in San Francisco back in the day. Walrus ivory handle, silver coin ferrule and the head is supposed to resemble a bear. (California, eh?) I'm told pre-1877.

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Old ,unique & Excellent Mike & Thank You for adding it here
-Vince
 
Mike Robuck said:
I do have this tool by Will & Finck, so maybe it was made next to some bowies and push daggers in San Francisco back in the day.
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Unless I'm mistaken, that tool could lead to the bowies and push daggers being brought into use.;)
Will & Finck made or sold just about every sort of crooked gambling equipment known or dreamed of in their day....There are two basic forms of cheating at poker: first passively reading the cards during the deal, and then betting accordingly; second, actively controlling the cards before or during the play. The latter includes second dealing, bottom dealing, holding out and reintroducing cards, and cold-decking - secretly substituting a stacked or marked deck for the deck in play.
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Bernard R. Levine, Knifemakers of Old San Francisco.
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Or am I being too suspicious?
 
Bernard Levine told me it was for pulling skewers out of meat.

W&F did make some cool tools for cheating in gambling (marked cards, weighted dice, etc.) Some such device recently sold on eBay.
 
I need to read BRL more closely.:o
bernard_levine said:
Will & Finck made carving sets with up to about 48 implements, and no duplication (i.e. no dinner knives, and steak knives were not invented yet, not until c1911).
Included corkscrew, champagne wire cutter, lime squeezer, nutcracker, skewer puller, marrow scoop, cheese scoop, extra sizes of carvers and forks, and much more.

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I'd love to see some of the other pieces out of the carving set that skewer puller came from.
 
I'd love to see some of the other pieces out of the carving set that skewer puller came from.[/QUOTE said:
Me too! I've seen some of the lime squeezers on eBay. This skewer remover came from the UK. I bet that set was pretty pricey back in its day.

I wish I would have bid on some of the W&F cutlery sets on eBay before it banned ivory.

So three and half years after we moved to this house I just found my copy of Levine's "Knifemakers of Old San Francisco" in our garage.
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Remington RH-74-P. "P" for pyremite. I have seen these on occasion with the stamp having Dupont in a oval underneath Remington. Dupont gained controlling interest in Remington in 1933 and these knives were produced from 1933 until sometime in 1940? I believe the "70" series was started under Dupont's ownership.
Greg

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