"Old Knives"

A Brantford Cutlery Co Never Dull American Barlow, 1910 to 1930, supposedly a line of knives sold by Butler Bros Chicago. They did not make knives, Brantford's are thought to be made by Camillus. This appears to be an early barlow, hammered pins and that long swedge on the pile side of the main.


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That’s a neat oldy Augie, I did a comparison with two old Harness Jack Knives a while ago.
The Brandtford was marked as such and the other stamped Camillus - it’s nice to have to two identical Knives marked differently.

Man I LOVE that Bolster Stamping - and that beautiful old Bone simply highlighted by the touch of old - those Hammered Pins 😍
 
Augie said:
A Brantford Cutlery Co Never Dull American Barlow, 1910 to 1930, supposedly a line of knives sold by Butler Bros Chicago. They did not make knives, Brantford's are thought to be made by Camillus. This appears to be an early barlow, hammered pins and that long swedge on the pile side of the main.


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Nice one, don't see the Brantford knives too often.
Here is one I have, the "Never Dull" etch is faintly visible on the main blade.

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Campbellclanman said:
That’s a neat oldy Augie, I did a comparison with two old Harness Jack Knives a while ago.
The Brandtford was marked as such and the other stamped Camillus - it’s nice to have to two identical Knives marked differently.

Man I LOVE that Bolster Stamping - and that beautiful old Bone simply highlighted by the touch of old - those Hammered Pins 😍
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Thank you all for the comment, nice condition Brantford P&G.

Duncan, agreed on the bolster stamping, love ones like these with a lot of detail, some of the slogans, Never Dull, Tip Top, Diamond Edge, etc, take us back to a simpler time. You can go decades collecting barlows and never acquire every bolster stamp variation that has been made, part of the fun I guess. Good example is this Never Dull, I have seen pictures of another variation of this barlow that just has Never Dull on the bolster and an arched tang stamp, who knows if I will ever be able to find one of those in decent condition.
 
There's something about silver fruit knives that I like. Especially the all silver ones. Sadly I couldn't identify the hallmarks yet, but judging by the rightmost one, this knife was made in the US sometime around 1850, give or take a decade. That probably makes it coin silver instead of sterling silver.

What really drew me to it is the name Doggett engraved on the mark side. It reminds me of Bascom L Lunsford's song Doggett's Gap, which appears to be one of the earliest film recordings of music from Appalachia, albeit the knife is quite a bit older than the recording itself ...



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