"Old Knives"

[Gevonovich]

Schrade Walden NY, an amazing gift from an amazing guy - thank you Mr. hilborn...

Lovely lovely lovely...both the knife and you gents

 

[smiling-knife]

Beautiful Schrade knife. What a great gift.

 

[smiling-knife]

I like your penknives Jack and ADEE.

One more to add.

 

[Jack Black]

Thank you Stephen, lovely bone on that Wraggs :thumbup:

 

[paulhilborn]

Just great old knives being posted and the history tied to them is amazing:thumbup:

This ones rough but yet very beautiful, in my eyes @ least

An old John Primble Barlow that had the tip broken off the Pen blade. all I did was re-profile the Pen and sharpen the Main. A little oil in the joints and she's ready to be put back to work:thumbup: The saw cut bone covers are nicked and dinged and well worn but still nice.

 

[Jack Black]

That Primble Barlow really oozes character Paul, great job my friend :thumbup:

 

[paulhilborn]

That Primble Barlow really oozes character Paul, great job my friend :thumbup:

Thank you Jack, I really like the Sheffield beauties you post, I'm in awe of how many Makers you continue to locate:thumbup:

 

[ADEE]

More nice items ... a busy day.
Thanks for the kind words good people.

Jack ... I will bring the Lockwood Brothers pen to our next meet so you can enjoy again.

paulhilborn ... Good work with the Barlow. It certainly has "charisma".

smiling-knife ... Lovely WRAGGS. The name rang a bell. Here is a WRAGGS trade knife of some kind. Any idea of the trade or age ?

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[Jack Black]

Thank you Jack, I really like the Sheffield beauties you post, I'm in awe of how many Makers you continue to locate:thumbup:

Thanks Paul, well we have it easy here from the point of view of finding old Sheffield knives I guess

Jack ... I will bring the Lockwood Brothers pen to our next meet so you can enjoy again.

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I'll look forward to that ADEE, and I think I can help you with that Wraggs, having seen two other knives like that recently, and being present when someone from the Royal Armouries identified the knife. Years ago, government departments ordered large quantities of quill knives. The numbers were so huge that the supply exceeded the lifetime of the quill pen itself, but the knives were used as letter-openers and for all sorts of other things. so they were still supplied to departments like the MOD well into the 50's (I've seen two dated examples with the 'crow's foot'). So what you have there, I think, is a quill knife-cum-office knife

I have a Wraggs somewhere, I'll have to go in search of it!

 

[singin50]

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Beautiful knife S-K! Is that Rogers bone?

 

[ADEE]

I'll look forward to that ADEE, and I think I can help you with that Wraggs, having seen two other knives like that recently, and being present when someone from the Royal Armouries identified the knife. Years ago, government departments ordered large quantities of quill knives. The numbers were so huge that the supply exceeded the lifetime of the quill pen itself, but the knives were used as letter-openers and for all sorts of other things. so they were still supplied to departments like the MOD well into the 50's (I've seen two dated examples with the 'crow's foot'). So what you have there, I think, is a quill knife-cum-office knife

I have a Wraggs somewhere, I'll have to go in search of it!

Many thanks for the info, Jack .... amazing stuff. I have two of these quill-cum-office knives, one has your name on it ! AD.

 

[Jack Black]

Many thanks for the info, Jack .... amazing stuff. I have two of these quill-cum-office knives, one has your name on it ! AD.

Thanks ADEE, you're a good man!

 

[Primble]

This ones rough but yet very beautiful, in my eyes @ least

An old John Primble Barlow that had the tip broken off the Pen blade. all I did was re-profile the Pen and sharpen the Main. A little oil in the joints and she's ready to be put back to work:thumbup: The saw cut bone covers are nicked and dinged and well worn but still nice.

WOW - you done it again!!! :thumbup: Now that one has some really great old patina going on and I would not want to mess with that, a great one to leave as found.

You did a fabulous job on the pen and I can see that razor edge you put on there - you have some magic of your own friend. :thumbup:

I am going to have to hide my Primble cabinet from some of you guys - so you will lose interest in the Primble brand.

 

[Gevonovich]

S-K
Great old pen knife! The Sheffield Boys sure knew how to stamp a knife.

Paul
Just another beautiful Barlow! Great job on the re-profile. That old bone is just exquisite. Great job on the photos as well.

ADEE
That is one interesting quill knife! What a great piece for an office.

 

[paulhilborn]

WOW - you done it again!!! :thumbup: Now that one has some really great old patina going on and I would not want to mess with that, a great one to leave as found.

You did a fabulous job on the pen and I can see that razor edge you put on there - you have some magic of your own friend. :thumbup:

I am going to have to hide my Primble cabinet from some of you guys - so you will lose interest in the Primble brand.

I do have you to thank for peaking my interest in Primble knives, so for that I want to thank you as the only two I've owned are the Barlows:thumbup: They truly are very well built knives, the Barlows just feel SOLID simply because they are.

These two, yours and mine seem to be close cousins and for their age they still easily compete with quality knives of today

Sincerely Primble if it wasn't for you I'd have maybe gazed but never pulled the trigger on two fine old girls such as these fine Barlow's


@Gev, Thank you for the compliment my friend---these are such GREAT Barlow's:thumbup: I think the one I have pictured above is looking for a fine Stump to call home?

It's getting pretty cold here in the Dakota's and I get the feeling it would prefer a warmer climate

 

[Gevonovich]

@Gev, Thank you for the compliment my friend---these are such GREAT Barlow's:thumbup: I think the one I have pictured above is looking for a fine Stump to call home?

It's getting pretty cold here in the Dakota's and I get the feeling it would prefer a warmer climate

The Stump would be breathless with its beauty upon it! I am humbled, my friend! I will send you an email and we can talk about this

 

[Jack Black]

Here's a 1970 Case Stockman sent to me a while back by the good Mr Gevonovich.

 

[Jack Black]

Blyde Fruit Knife.

 

[Augie]

More fine knives everyone, here is a Primble I picked up late last week.
John

 

[Jack Black]

That looks fantastic Augie :thumbup: