"Old Knives"

smiling-knife said:
A knice Ed Wustof Solingen knife circa early 1900s.

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Wow... S-K..... that really is a Pearl! wonderful knife, amazing when you think of these lovely knives that we see as treasures were simply made as tools - that in 100 years time, this tool has been looked after so much through the changes of times to be able to be appreciated as the treasures we find that they are now.
 
More nice knives have appeared here. Thanks for shownng them jujigatami and mike Berkovitch .. good work with the Remington jack.
smiling knife The Solingen knife is fabulous. Old, complete, in very good order and very shapely. [unusually so for its age ?]

Here is a hybrid. JOSEPH RODGERS & Co [front pair of blades] and E. BLYDE [back pair of blades, though one is snapped off]. The Rodgers has no star and cross and note the wacky tang stamp on the back of the Rodgers nail file. ??? 3 1/4" closed.

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ADEE said:
The Rodgers has no star and cross and note the wacky tang stamp on the back of the Rodgers nail file.
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That is because the blades bear the mark of Joseph Rodgers AND COMPANY, not Joseph Rodgers AND SONS LTD my friend ;)

Sheffield cutlery is full of mysteries! Talking of which, I'm looking for help with the maker of this old Sheffield Champagne Knife. The name on the tang stamp is hard to make out. I thought I'd be able to ID it from the heart and cross, but every reference I find doesn't match up with what I can read of the name :confused:







 
Here's an oldie I found at an antique mall yesterday.









That's an H & JW King, dated as 1869! I bought it workout being able to read the tang stamp, solely because I didn't have a pruner in my collection. A rather nice surprise from a $10 investment!
 
Thanks ADEE, I'm hoping someone here can help with the heart and cross. Great find Dan :thumbup:
 
Parke1 ... A great find ! Will you clean it ? If you do, please show an "after" picture. The wood looks good.
 
Thanks guys! Adee, I'm not sure if I'm going to attempt a cleaning of this one or not. The blade is pitted so deeply down near the edge, I'm afraid I'd be left with a holey blade! :eek: Thoughts on a restoration attempt, anyone?
 
Dan, there is active rust on the blade which will continue to ruin it. First thing you should clean the whole iron parts of the knife with oil and soft tooth brush, not an easy job but necessary. From the photos (and I might be completely wrong) it seems that you can gently reshape the edge and remove the chipped part while keeping the original structure and then sharpen it, but I would decide about it only after stopping the rust.
Very nice knife though.

Mike
 
Nice old knives Dan, Jack and ADEE. Great shape on the old pruning blade. Jack, I've looked for the maker of your knife a few times but no success so far. Interesting combination of blades ADEE. I've not found a link between E Blyde and Joseph Rodgers & Co. According to Tweedale, Joseph Rodgers & Co dates 1871 to 1907 when it went bankrupt.
 
An old knife from The Hatch Cutlery Company, corner of Railroad Avenue and Norman Street, Bridgeport, CT., U.S.A., in business there from 1885-1889. The logo for the company was "a young chick breaking out of an eggshell." (Preceded the Challenge Cutlery Company at that location) The knife is 3 & 3/4 inches closed. The blades and wood handles are in very nice condition and the knife has plenty of snap left. Gifted to me by Markesharp and a knife that I think highly of.:
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An older John Primble India Steel Works equal end knife, circa 1890-1940. I bought this old knife because I thought the price at the time was too cheap. While it has been well used, the bone is beautiful and crack free, and the bolsters and shield looked terrific to me. It is not one of my display case pieces. I did a little cleaning on it, but, not so much. It is 3 & 1/4 inches closed and it carries well in a watch pocket:
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Some nice old knives being shown and I especially liked the S-K knife with scissors. :)
 
smiling-knife said:
Interesting combination of blades ADEE. I've not found a link between E Blyde and Joseph Rodgers & Co. According to Tweedale, Joseph Rodgers & Co dates 1871 to 1907 when it went bankrupt.
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Thanks for looking up those details s-k. So I suppose this is either cutlers of the day making do with available blades, or else a repair at any point in the knife's history. I have another old mop 4-piece knife with a mix of blades. I'll dig it out.


Primble More goodies from you. The John Primble equal-end looks handsome and a nice size.
 
Wow, I love that Hatch. The stamp on the main with a big H bracketing at each end is very cool. Those old Connecticut knives are some of the best ever made in the USA in my opinion.
 
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