"Old Knives"

Thanks 50! Yes sir that jiggin is deep! I look for Blyde knives all the time but they are few and far between, so I was really glad to make this one of the ol' collection!
 
Fine looking knife. I like the double tail bolsters. A typical kick found in many Sheffield knives.
Got this one from Duncan, deep jigging as well

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Mike
 
67nick said:
Here's an old John Blyde Swayback with jigged brown bone covers and a "Real Lamb Foot" master blade. I picked this one up for a deal and when it got to me it was covered with some sort of tar. After a little mineral oil bath and some lite elbow grease she cleaned up pretty good! Mr. Blyde made excellent knives back then and this one is without exception, still has great snap, deep rat-tailed steel bolsters, and really nice thick bone covers!!!
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Interesting ole knife! :thumbup:
 
Interesting pen knife with unusual shape kind of a swell center on top only. Marked Goodbebere /Cain & Co or Gain & Co. Only reference I have found is in my "London Knife Book" Ron Flook is for a George Thomas Goodbebere (1836). Knife is in great condition. I posted this in the Sheffield thread hoping for some more information, but I know it is old so I'm posting here as well.
Charles
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Thank you! Rem certainly offers some rewarding bone, mine's but a modest one. Very tidy carry that still gets an outing (carefully controlled...) on certain days.

Regards, Will
 
Thanks Jeff! I'd really like to see GEC offer some tip-bolsters, bout time! Glad to see that elderly Böker around again, I think it had coined liners but not those coined bolsters that GEC put on the Esquire:eek:
 
Charles, I hope you find more info on your beautiful, elegant knife. Will, I really like tip bolster pens also... very nice jigged bone on that one!

Here's a pearl-handled tip bolster pen knife.

I love the history behind knives as much as the knives themselves. When I saw this one all I knew was that it was probably old; that the pearl handles, while dull, had no cracks and the blades had surface rust. No makers mark visible in the pictures/none mentioned in the description and no time to ask the seller. Only seconds left. What the heck, I'll spend $8 to find out.

What I discovered when I got it put a smile on my face.

CLAY / ANDOVER, N.Y. / U.S.A.
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This cutlery was started by Charlie, Joe and Frank Platts in 1907. They broke ground in February 1907 and were selling knives by May of the same year.

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Platts Brothers Cutlery Co. operated in Andover until about 1910.

The brothers had been lured to Andover by the Business Men's Association of Andover with the promise of financial support. That support never happened. They went bankrupt and the cutlery was sold to Clay E. Jordan of St Louis (nephew of A.J. Jordan, who had one of the largest wholesale knife companies at the time). Clay Cutlery (with many of the cutlers hired by the Platts brothers) operated until 1920. Clay Cutlery suffered two major fires. The second one in December 1920 put them out of business.
 
WOW ! Charles that is magnificent !
 
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