"Old Knives"

I hate to hear my friends whine. :eek: ;)

It was unstuck as a nod to my brother "Bastid" who, (truth be known), hates "stickies" in general.

But, he and I had both agreed beforehand that if the need arose to reverse course we would do so.

So, here ya go with our compliments. :cool:
 
Some more residents of the retired working knives home:

Group 1

Top blade is a Remington
2nd is a Richards, Sheffield camp knife
3rd is marked Ibbotson, Sheffield
Bottom knife is marked Kaufmann & Sons, Solingen

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Group 2

Top knife is marked J Rodgers and Sons, 6 Norfolk St, Sheffield England. The blade is marked :Western Castrator
2nd knife is marked Syracuse Knife Company, Syracuse NY
3rd knife is a Hammer Brand Camp King
Bottom knife is marked Southern & Richarson, Sheffield


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I am sure I have shown most of these before, but in honour of the restickification of the thread (thanks guys) here are some of my favourites. Apologies for the repetiton.

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Thank you for this wonderful place where we may tell our story.
C. Platts and Sons

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I have really been busy lately but this week I had a chance to get out and hunt for knives. Here are a few of them. First is a stag handled jack stamped W & S Horrabin Sheffield. Goins' lists it as 1844 - 1867. Second is a L.F. & C. with imitation ivory handles. Last is a Western States folding hunter. I will try to put up more pictures tonight. - Dan
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It's not often that knives like these two are found in such good condition. These knives have no tang stamps or any visible markings to indicate the manufacturer. It's believed the are old due to the fact that nobody is making knives like this today. Neither of these knives have been used, carried, or sharpened.

The first one is a 3" Norfolk pattern, two blade gents knife. Milled liners and perfectly installed, beautiful MOP.

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I'm not sure what this pattern would be called. It's a 3 1/8" gents knife of sorts, with very fine, delicately ground blades. The manicure/file blade still shows temper colors. The back spring is covered by a piece of MOP that is secured in place by "tommy pins" that extend from the center liner(they are integral with the liner). The closeup shows how the liners are set higher than the springs to leave room to cover them with the MOP.

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Astounding knives Kerry. And what an unusual way to cover the springs on the second one. On the first, the inked number is done with old-fashioned forms of the numerals, although they are still written like that in small-town Sicily. (Saw them in 2003 when I was there).
Are the pins nickel or steel on those knives, not withstanding the "tommy pins"??
 
Astounding knives Kerry. And what an unusual way to cover the springs on the second one. On the first, the inked number is done with old-fashioned forms of the numerals, although they are still written like that in small-town Sicily. (Saw them in 2003 when I was there).
Are the pins nickel or steel on those knives, not withstanding the "tommy pins"??

Our thought is that these knives may have been made in Germany as they were with a collection of other German knives. I'll give the knives another look to see what the pins are made of.

I forgot to point out that the center pin is hidden on the 2 blade Norfolk knife.
 
The four-blade does look German.

The first scan is from a 1914 copy of a Henckels catalog. The second is from an original bound Henckels catalog from 1889. The four-blade with the bail is in a "new products" section. A lot of the same patterns were made by German cutlery firms.

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I found one knife similar to the "Norfolk" knife but I didn't go through all of the catalogs.

I wonder what else was in that roll? :eek:

Edited to add that I found more of those knives on another page. The "P" means the knife was available in pearl.
 
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Marked "RODGERS CUTLERS TO HIS MAJESTY" and "No 6 NORFOLK STREET SHEFFIELD". Rodgers sold the Norfolk Street factory in 1929, although no doubt had stamped blades to assemble for some time after that. Wicked sharp, 3 1/2" closed - a great EDC.
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Kerry, those knives indeed look German. Very nice.
Here's a good old American knife, a monster of a Coke-bottle hunter, just over 5 1/2" long. I've shown it with a standard sized Barlow for scale. Now the bone on this knife is what I think of as "pick bone". It looks like it was chipped with a tiny chisel.
I can't pick up the etch, but it says "Hammer Brand" just under the nail pull.
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Charlie,Where do you come up with these finds? Both are fabulous.
Thanks for adding,and adding more & more :D
-Vince
 
I go out and find 'em just for you to look at Vince:D!;)
 
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