"Old Knives"

Jake, looks like a Robeson Orange Blossom lobster knife. I've seen them in pearl, but yours is the first with jigged bone (presuming i'm correct re Robeson).
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Jake, that is just a beautiful Robeson and a great start to the pattern! Love the bone

Brad, Your collection is just wonderous. Interest how small the world is...the connection to Concordia Seminary is so interesting!. Do you have any idea what the "Ten Club" was?
 
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Brad, Your collection is just wonderous. Interest how small the world is...the connection to Concordia Seminary is so interesting!. Do you have any idea what the "Ten Club" was?
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From talking to some old timers that were from around the Warterford, WI area it seems there was a significant fire in the early 1900's that destroyed much of the town and the Ten Club, a civic group, needed to raise money to redevelop the town square, bandstand, etc. a park is named after them I believe. It seems that Pritzlaff made some knives and embossed them to help with fund raising. None of this validated but at least some seems to be accurate.

BTW: Pile side covers are embossed with WATERFORD.

I would certainly appreciate any historical input on this topic. Very little info available through usual online sources.
 
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Here is fantastic little wreck, imo a small masterpiece of early cutlers art. Joseph Rodgers C 1830, either Geo 4th or
William 4th, no later than 1835. I bought it on the bay about 10 years ago for 12 bucks :D, mainly to find out what he "nail nick" in the handle was all about. I posted it in Mick Wellingtons thread on early Sheffield knives and he figured it out, yet said he had never seen anything like it. The cutout in the scale and through the liner is where you push the tip of the quill after cutting the point, to square the tip of the pen.
The master blade compresses to snip the tip off the quill ( a guillotine) which happens with almost no backspring movement.
There is no back spring pin showing in the scales but I think it's straight down from the back end of the cut out.
The blades are way down, the quill to about 40% and the master was about 1/4 inch longer with a maximum at the tip dictated by the width at the forward plunge line.There is a scar inside in the ivory showing that the blade was quite full at the tip. See pics. The section of blade in front of the file area is ground on one side like a chisel, if you look closely you can see the plunge where it turns into a normal 2 sided flat grind. Hope you enjoy.

Best regards

Robin





Shows the blade compressed to clip the tip of the quill

 
Pipeman said:
Here is fantastic little wreck, imo a small masterpiece of early cutlers art. Joseph Rodgers C 1830, either Geo 4th or
William 4th, no later than 1835. I bought it on the bay about 10 years ago for 12 bucks :D, mainly to find out what he "nail nick" in the handle was all about. I posted it in Mick Wellingtons thread on early Sheffield knives and he figured it out, yet said he had never seen anything like it. The cutout in the scale and through the liner is where you push the tip of

Best regards

Robin

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Thanks for showing Robin. Nice!

Would make a nice companion piece for this one:

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You guys are certainly showing some great knives these days. Here is one of my favorites, just because it is a little different in pairing the pearl with a punch

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Brad- as robin said a very nice-AND very interesting piece - Robin - that goes for you as well, what an interesting knife - genius thought going into the making, and I am sure it took as greater mind to assemble those early knives!!

Hey Jamie - thats a real nice knife - can you tell us more about it?
 
KJ, It is a Robeson. The jigged bone that Cattaraugus and Robeson used is one of my favorites along with Schrade's peach seed and Remington bone.

Those quill knives are fantastic, Robin and Brad! I hadn't seen one of those machines previously.

Neat knife, Jamie. I call that pattern a stock-ittler. ;) :p :D Is it a split spring? I had a siimilar knife from NYKCo but it wasn't wearing pearls. What brand is it?
 
Duncan/Jake, thanks for the comments. It is a Marshall Wells and is a big knife at around 4" with coined liners and a thick tapered liner. Look closely and you can see the blade etch. Don't know the manufacturer but suspect it to be NYKC. Here is a shot of the springs
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Duncan/Jake, thanks for the comments. It is a Marshall Wells and is a big knife at around 4" with coined liners and a thick tapered liner. Look closely and you can see the blade etch. Don't know the manufacturer but suspect it to be NYKC. Here is a shot of the springs
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I would call that pretty NICE! Thanks for sharing.
 
This is an old Imperial fixed blade that I found years ago in a tackle box that belonged to my great-grandmother. The condition is pretty rough, and I've left it mostly like I found it (I oiled and wiped it down with a cloth to take off what rust I could, and I've sharpened it, that's about it). The retaining strap on the sheath was missing when I found the knife, and the strap for the secondary part of the sheath in front is broken at the snap. The handle (plastic/"imitation bone") is in good shape, no cracks.

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Here's a closer look at what you can see of the tang stamp. I've looked at several pictures of these online, and it seems like the stamp on most I've seen says "IMPERIAL PROV R.I. USA" where as this one is just "IMPERIAL USA."

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It appears that the knife was originally sold as a combo with a scout knife, which went in the front part of the sheath (the strap that's broken on my sheath was meant to hold the folder in place by slipping it through the bail). Unfortunately, I never found the folder. Here's a picture of the set I found searching Google images:

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I still use the knife, mostly around the house, doing chores outside, stuff like that. It sharpens up really well. Still a good little knife with plenty of life left in it, as far as I'm concerned. :thumbup:
 
This thread just gets better and better! :) :thumbup:
 
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