"Old Knives"

Jack, thank you for the information, apparently my Google skills suck, when I searched as you suggested I found lots of information.
Nice clean etching on your Robinson.
 
Thanks Augie, glad you were able to find some information :thumbup:
 
I spotted the Herbert Robinson posts and spent a couple of hours looking for my TWO examples. I could only find one.
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That's a nice one ADEE, I think I have at least three, but a bit short on pics of two of them! :D







 
I got this George Wostenholm Barlow from Bob (Big Biscuit) on the Exchange today. Goins' says the tang stamp was used from 1890 - 1971. I'm trying to narrow down a better date range. The pins looked hammered to me (don't know if that is original or not) which makes me think it is from the earlier part of the date range.

Any opinions or helpful insight?



 
I'm not sure of the age. It doesn't match the stamps on the barlows in my catalog from 1910. I can't see the stamp clearly on the barlows in my 1955 catalog. And there are a whole lot of years between and after those dates. There might be some additional catalog scans in the sticky.
 
RDaneel said:
I got this George Wostenholm Barlow from Bob (Big Biscuit) on the Exchange today. Goins' says the tang stamp was used from 1890 - 1971. I'm trying to narrow down a better date range. The pins looked hammered to me (don't know if that is original or not) which makes me think it is from the earlier part of the date range.
Any opinions or helpful insight?
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:eek: I was refreshing the Exchange literally all day until I had a work emergency between 5-6. Even had an opportunity to get that #15 for basically retail before it got snapped up. Any Barlows for me? Nooooo! :(

I'm just destined never to use it, I think. :grumpy:

Dean, I have a mystery I*XL Barlow somewhere with what I believe is the same set of bolster and tang stamps. I'll double check when I can go digging around for it and see if I have found any info on it yet. I don't want to give any false hope, though; I seem to have no luck in dating Wolstenholm Barlows, so I just collect them ignorantly. :o Yours is a real nice one, good pickup. :thumbup:
 
Thanks, TsarBomba. I have missed many, many items on the Exchange. But sometimes I get lucky. I look forward to seeing your I*XL.
 
That's a great old Kabar. Love that worn bone, bar shield. Nice...
 
That's a beauty, J.A. Best condition I've seen in a real original one.
These are pretty old.
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Been a little while since I had any knife content to offer this thread. Stumbled across a mystery LF&C pen in what I've slowly come to believe is actual stag (one of the dark "bumps" seems to have rubbed off a little bit and there is definitely a lighter stag-like color underneath, not usually the kind of thing you see in a uniform composite material, and the texture of this knife doesn't seem like any composite I've ever handled. I know nothing about the knife and can't even make an educated guess as to its age. The blades are full but the knife does look like it's got some years on it...

As always, any additional information is welcome. Now to the pics:







 
Jolipapa said:
@ Jack : I guess yes, I don't know when they invented the metal cap for bottles, but as show some pictures, there was no opener on older knives, just a corkscrew.
You probably did not visit Thiers because it is in the middle of nowhere :D

@ Will : In the XVIIth, XVIIIth and XIXth and even in the XXth centuries Thiers was like the Chinese now. They would make huge quantities of knives of all sorts and sold all over the world, in French colonies of course, but Spain, Latin and South America were big markets as well as South-East Asia and Russia (France Exportation was a big conglomerate with several brands, each aimed at a specific market, i.e. 108 Girodias in Spain, etc.).
In France Nogent, Langres and Chatellerault (and a few other places) made better quality knives, but did not compare in terms of quantity and variety of patterns.
So they did also copies of the Swiss Army knife and as copyrights were not what they are now, sold them under the 'Swiss" pattern name until the 70's, when the real SAK started to be an icon. (But the Swiss could not prevent the use of the white cross on red as this is the Savoie flag as well.)
Other names as Touriste, Grand Touriste, Chamonix, Evian are references to the then new trend for tourism or resorts in the Alps, specific to that maker.

A bit of 2 cts psychology: people in Auvergne are Mountaineers, speak few, work hard, always adopt low profile, know what solidarity means and are never satisfied with themselves. The climate is hard, life tough and money scarce. At the end of XIXth cent. a lot came to Paris to find a job and they sold coal (Aveyron had lots of coal mines) and beverages beside (they were called bougnats-but beware, Bougna knives come from Pakistan!). Now they still hold most of the bars. :)
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In Russia there is almost no mention of any French folding knives. These knives probably was not
 
Dean, nice I*XL, with the hammered pins I would guess earlier rather than later.

TsagBomba, nice LF&C, not sue on the handle material, LF&C had a black synthetic that looked a lot like stag.

My find for the week is a brass F Newton Sheffield. I was not sure on this one as far as being old but the more I handle it and research I'm thinking it actually is pretty old. Not a lot out there on F. Newton, from what I can find at least pre WW2. It has been cleaned but I do see a few areas that some pitting still shows.

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Augie said:
Dean, nice I*XL, with the hammered pins I would guess earlier rather than later.

TsagBomba, nice LF&C, not sue on the handle material, LF&C had a black synthetic that looked a lot like stag.

My find for the week is a brass F Newton Sheffield. I was not sure on this one as far as being old but the more I handle it and research I'm thinking it actually is pretty old. Not a lot out there on F. Newton, from what I can find at least pre WW2. It has been cleaned but I do see a few areas that some pitting still shows.
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Thanks, Augie, that is on track with what I was thinking. Your brass knife is gorgeous; what is the size?
 
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