"Old Knives"

Had a good day at a PA flea market Sunday, found this well used and beat up Miller Bros large coke bottle, curved tang stamp, also found an early 1887 LC Smith Quality 2 to go with it.
Even though the Miller Bros is well worn it has a certain appeal.
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Wow! Real nice pattern that Augie, great find, wonderful photos too. Congratulations :thumbup:

kootenay joe said:
Hi Jack, in post 8061, 3rd picture down, of a vintage Eye Witness Sleeveboard(?) Pen, are the covers ivory ?
I have a few vintage Sheffield Pen knives in which it is difficult to say whether handles are ivory or a man made plastic. Most of the man made covers are easy to identify but there was also a certain type of plastic that is very ivory like.
Have you encountered this dilemma ?
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Hi Joe, I just dug out that particular knife to double-check, and I have to say only the pile side really gives it away. As you say, most times the synthetics are easy to spot, and with some experience, so is ivory - usually - but occasionally you get something you have to ponder over, I had an Elliot penknife that I acquired quite recently which was like that. I often see all sorts of stuff - even the most obvious cracked ice celluloid - being passed off as ivory, but I also manage to pick up quite a bit of genuine ivory (on knives and all sorts of other items) pretty cheaply, because most of the sellers wouldn't know ivory from icing sugar. Got a nice lump on this hairbrush recently, which I then sent to one of our knifemakers, but in this case, it was pretty obvious what it was, so I had to pay a bit more for it ;)

 
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John Wigfall, definitely not ivory :)
 
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jdracing said:
As promised......I see why the pictures were way out of focus in listing......
But it's still nice to me.......As nice as I could afford too....
Don't you just love when people sharpen at a knife with a grinder?
What a shame.
I polished the bolsters with krokus cloth,semi-chrome...Thinkin bout trying to get
grinder marks out of blade.....Afraid it may be so deep as to take encore what's left of it....
What's your opinion friends?....
Thanks to all who helped me out,JD

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Well,what's the verdict?...Does it pass as old?......Is it a good find,or an OK find?
JD
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That's a nice 100 year old knife. Beautiful stag scales. It's suffered a lot already. I'd leave it be.
 
This Coronation knife was a gift from Duncan :) Only Bowman & Pike knife I've ever come across.

 
Hey Jack my friend
You and I think alike- I am ALWAYS hunting for those old Hair Brush sets - because of the Ivory.
Lovely knives mate.

Augury mate ANY Millers is a nice Millers 👍😄
 
Gevonovich said:
What in the world is the bottom knife for? I would like to see the other blades if you of a mind:D They are all of the charts!!!
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It's an alligator wrench.... it would probably be useful as a back scratcher also. :D The other tools are a screwdriver and a sheepfoot blade.

c1920s Robeson Radio Electrician's Knife
 
The alligator wrench knife was one of my "grail" knives, made by Robeson and directed to early radio users that did their own servicing.

They were originally etched, "Radio Knife" or something similar.

The only one I ever had the opportunity and the means to buy, had a welded master blade.

That's a nice one.
 
Thank you, guys.

Charlie, Do you know if Robeson used Roger's "Indian Trail" bone on some of their knives? Some of the old Robeson knives have jigged bone that looks similar to the "Indian Trail" bone on Cattaraugus knives but I don't know if it is the same or just similar.
 
Jake,

Nice lineup of cool knives! The 3rd from left wouldn't happen to be a Brantford Cutlery would it? That bone reminds me of one I used to own that looks very similar. I don't know who made it but possibly Winchester?
 
Jamie, It's a EC Simmons Keen Kutter. Winchester purchased Keen Kutter so that may explain the resemblance.

I'm not familiar with Brantford Cutlery. Goins' Encylopedia gives the dates 1910-1930. Levine's Guide IV has some question marks and cross references which suggest it may be a wholesaler. Neither source mentions what companies made their knives.
 
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