"Old Knives"

chuko said:
Nice group of NYKCo. knives
Charles
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Thank you Charles ! :thumbup::)

Campbellclanman said:
Primble- just breathtaking - I just love that Big Coke Bottle Lock-Back What a Knife!!!
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Thank you my friend ! :thumbup::)

r redden said:
Primble that NYKC collection is gorgeous. I'd love to spend some time checking out your collection in person. You always post such great knives. :thumbup:
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kspaz said:
Nice knives being shown by everyone. I really like that large New York coke bottle. I always ask about them when I see them at knife shows.
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Always appreciated guys and thank you.

Nick - you have been posting some very nice knives, as usual ! :thumbup::)
 
Thanks Primble! Those NYK's are amazing and I really like the background too. You have a way with a camera my friend!!!
 
Heres an interesting one...or is it?

Not the most collectable version of knife- not to say that is not a nice knife!....

but the engraving has me thinking..... IS THIS A SALESMAN'S SAMPLE?

Engraved with of course the Manufacturer whom we all know - but on the reverse has nothing but " ADVERTISING" engraved - which I see as an example of the Salesman describing as to where his prospective client places their name?
Your Thoughts?







 
Neat bottle opener knife, Duncan. It would make a nice example of an advertising knife for a book.

...I think you're right about it being a salesman sample. ...or maybe "Advertising" was the surname of the prior owner. ;)
 
A different variation on the pattern. This knife made by John Watts.

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Interesting S-K looks like a gaping fish

Any idea what Chas Wells Ltd did?

Primble, those Tip Bolsterd knives have had me in some kind of a fit....

Thanks, Will
 
This old Camillus tang stamp indicates 1960-1976 however I am not sure what the pattern was called the seller listed it as a florist knife. Can anyone enlighten me?

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I agree with the seller's description. It's a florist knife. The single short sheepfoot is a defining feature. There are other variations as well. You could also call it a jack but that's a very general description.
 
r redden said:
This old Camillus tang stamp indicates 1960-1976 however I am not sure what the pattern was called the seller listed it as a florist knife. Can anyone enlighten me?
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My only concern with that identification is that Camillus had a floral knife which was smaller and serpentine, plus it had etching on the handle indicating that it was for floral use. Your particular example almost looks like a TL-29 with a single rounded sheepsfoot, although that too is problematic. I scoured the available catalogues on http://www.collectors-of-camillus.us/Catalogs/ between the late 50s and the mid 80s and I couldn't find a matching knife. The TL-29s transitioned from the four-pin construction to single-pin at some point in your specified time range, while your sheepsfoot has three. The closest production knife I could find was in the 1988 pamphlet, the S-1705 "linesman's knife" with sheepsfoot master. Even this is questionable, because the master seems to be the more squared-off rope knife variant in the pamphlet (although the photo is way too small to be sure) and has an easy-open notch. Perhaps yours is a variant without the bail or EO, but it's strange that they'd use a different profile for a variant on such a common pattern.

I found a few potential relatives via Google. This is the knife Camillus has listed as a "florist's knife" in most of their catalogues of the period:

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Schrade seems to have made some knives that come close but the pins are wrong and they tend to be stamped as Schrades, not Camillus:

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Ulster, but equal-end and with a more traditional sheepsfoot:

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Got a bit of a mystery there! :)
 
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