"Old Knives"

[T. Erdelyi]

Nice, I love them old European multi blades, top one, is it a picnic knife?

 

[Rostovsky]

rather, the knife angler

 

[Jack Black]

Fly-fisherman's knife by Brookes & Crookes.

 

[smiling-knife]

Nice knife Jack

 

[Jack Black]

Nice knife Jack

Thank you my friend

 

[TinyDog]

Hey guys, What's the chance of this happening?

I had been eyeing up a Booth Bros. knife at a local antique store that 3 miles from my home. I passed the first time, went home a did some research. The blade was marked no offers, so I wasn't going to insult the man. A month later I said to myself, if that knife is still there I am going to buy it. Fact is I said to the fellow: I do not want to insult you but would you go $150.00 for this knife. He knew it was rare as did I. He took it and I had a fine blade.

Among collection vintage knives, I have also collected many Older Knife references. A few months after purchasing this knife I was looking through the book "New Jersey Cutlery" and I wandered over to the Booth Bros section. I saw a knife that looked really close to the one I had just purchased. It was interesting, that I went and grabbed mine, the rest was history, it was the same knife that I had bought a few months earlier in SC!

 

[Peregrin]

What a great find, TD! A treasure to be sure.

 

[Gevonovich]

Fly-fisherman's knife by Brookes & Crookes.

Awesome find, Jack! A real treasure indeed!:thumbup::thumbup:

Tinydog
How wonderful is that...crazy cool!

 

[r redden]

Fly-fisherman's knife by Brookes & Crookes.



Jack let me share my ignorance what is the blade with the V cut into the tip used for?

 

[mike Berkovitch]

Very cool knives Jack and Tinydog

Mike

 

[TinyDog]

Fly-fisherman's knife by Brookes & Crookes.



Jack let me share my ignorance what is the blade with the V cut into the tip used for?

It may be a cigar fork. Some of the older companies had these used to hold smaller cigars. That would be something to see (-: TD

 

[Peregrin]

That could be a hook disgorger.

 

[TinyDog]

That could be a hook disgorger.

Yes Sir Gary That makes much more sense. I never read that it was a fly fishermen s knife

 

[Jack Black]

Beautiful knife TD :thumbup:

Awesome find, Jack! A real treasure indeed!:thumbup::thumbup:

Jack let me share my ignorance what is the blade with the V cut into the tip used for?

Very cool knives Jack and Tinydog

That could be a hook disgorger.

Thanks a lot guys Gary has it, it's a hook-disgorger :thumbup: The design is certainly no good for catch and release!

 

[TinyDog]

Guys,

Here another oldie in traditional pocket knives. Talk about a small pen knife! Perfect snap and action..... How did they do it? This guy from the original Union Razor co. 1902~1909 is 2 3/8 inches long and weighs in at a whopping 12 grams.

Union Razor bought out Tidioute Cutlery in 1902 and continued to use their stamping. In 1909 they changed their name to Union Cutlery company, the new company bought the machinery from the now Defunct "Booth Bros." the knife in my earlier listing.

 

[mike Berkovitch]

Very nice knife, top noch craftmanship, that how they did it

Mike

 

[Augie]

Nice Tidioute TD, very nice condition for its age.

Picked up this Wostenholm pruner, different from others I have found in that it is slimmer, easily pocketable. It has a brass end cap, instead of steel. Found some information showing it may be from the 1930's.

A pic showing it next to a full size vintage pruner,

 

[TinyDog]

Augie, Nice piece.... What I Love about old knives is the mangled pin heads. A true sign of an original piece... Off the chart handles on yours

 

[TsarBomba]

Fly-fisherman's knife by Brookes & Crookes.

You'll need a longer knife to tell some of those fish stories!

 

[Jack Black]

You'll need a longer knife to tell some of those fish stories!

:thumbup: