"Old Knives"

WOW Paul , great catch it is very interesting knife that looks fantastic, as stated by many before it is most probably Scharade Cut. Co .

Jack another set of fine examples of Sheffield golden days. You ought to open a museum :D

bobee nice set of knives as well. you don't see around many older Mikov, the knife looks great, so are the others. I like theses older Camilus engineers knives iconic knife.

Thanks guys for sharing.
Mike
 
mike Berkovitch said:
Jack another set of fine examples of Sheffield golden days. You ought to open a museum :D
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Thanks Mike, there's a bit of a history here of sad old men opening private museums to display all their old junk! :D :thumbup:
 
mike Berkovitch said:
LOL. I wouldn't call these knives junk, museum or not your heading towards large numbers. Do you have tables left at home? :D
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I keep buying more storage! :eek :D

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Randolph Douglas - Randini - was a friend of Harry Houdini and a fellow escapologist. By coincidence, he lived a stone's throw away from my parents' house in Sheffield. I don't know if his 'Collection of Wonders' eventually caused the floor to collapse, but he moved it to the small Derbyshire village of Castleton, 20 miles from Sheffield, setting up a small museum.
 
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Randolph Douglas - Randini - was a friend of Harry Houdini and a fellow escapologist. By coincidence, he lived a stone's throw away from my parents' house in Sheffield. I don't know if his 'Collection of Wonders' eventually caused the floor to collapse, but he moved it to the small Derbyshire village of Castleton, 20 miles from Sheffield, setting up a small museum.
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Harry Houdini was my childhood hero :D

Mike
 
paulhilborn said:
This is the nicest production Lineman's knife I've ever seen. I have its twin in ebony. The tang reads "Buffalo Cutlery Co" and as I understand it Buffalo Cutlery Co never manufactured knives, they only purchased factory seconds, ground off the original manufacturers tang stamp and then stamped their name on the blade.

I'm almost certain this is a "Schrade Cut Co" knife as the ebony twin I have is. It certainly appears to be Schrade jigging to me. In my search I came across the info I relayed above from AAPK site. In the description of the knife on the auction site it to leaned towards the info I found on AAPK site.

This is hands down the most stout, solid traditional pocket knife I own. Thick blades, no play, no gaps or flaws that I see anywhere on this knife, the snap of the blades wakes the neighbors:o:D

The color of the bone is far prettier than the pictures convey. Nice full blades and only minor pepper spots, you press the main blade down in the closed position to unlock the screwdriver/scraper blade:thumbup:

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Not because you are indeed a great friend Paul, but this knife just needs to be seen again - THAT is pure artwork right there!!!!
 
Thank you Duncan, those old Schrades are just amazing knives. The quality in every step is so evident.

I missed out on a plain bolster Schrade Sheepfoot/pen Barlow with peachseed covers. Oh well I'm sure it went to a good home:thumbup:

This old CASE redbone Pruner arrived today. The nicest to date. Has to be absolutely new but NEVER used. Solid centered blade with no play. Fantastic snap and colorful classic red bone covers. A bit of peppering indicates some bad storage but aside from that it is new.

Duncan, it was you who started me down this Pruner path my friend;)

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paulhilborn said:
Harry, thank you my friend. I just have to quit buying Pruners but I find it easier said than done:o:eek:
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Pruners : An Unsung Hero of the knife world
Last Christmas , I gave a daughter a pruner and she fell in love with it for her gardening this summer and fall.
This fall I let my wife Nancy use one of my pruners to cut Iris , Peony , and other tall flowers and she fell in love with it.
I Do Not know how many a person needs , but I think they need at least one .
So Paul : A pruner for you and Nance and each of your children and a couple of spares should be okay .


Harry
 
Mighty fine Pruner, Paul!!
And it shows off the best of what old Case Redbone can be!!
I don't care if I had a hundred pruners, I'd still have to buy that one!

That Buffalo Cut electricians knife is way cool! Being from Buffalo, NY, I have tried to collect a few of those, but that is only the third one I have seen!
They may have been SFOs as opposed to "rescued seconds." The one full one I have is pretty nice. And it has Schrade DNA!
 
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Old Engineer said:
Pruners : An Unsung Hero of the knife world
Last Christmas , I gave a daughter a pruner and she fell in love with it for her gardening this summer and fall.
This fall I let my wife Nancy use one of my pruners to cut Iris , Peony , and other tall flowers and she fell in love with it.
I Do Not know how many a person needs , but I think they need at least one .
So Paul : A pruner for you and Nance and each of your children and a couple of spares should be okay .


Harry
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Harry, they obviously excel at their intended task but even outside of their main calling they just cut EVERYTHING so well:thumbup: They literally tear into cardboard and even HEAVY furniture cardboard shuns the sight of the Pruner blade:p I love your logic my friend...I wasn't seeing the whole picture:D

waynorth said:
Mighty fine Pruner, Paul!!
And it shows off the best of what old Case Redbone can be!!
I don't care if I had a hundred pruners, I'd still have to buy that one!

That Buffalo Cut electricians knife is way cool! Being from Buffalo, NY, I have tried to collect a few of those, but that is only the third one I have seen!
They may have been SFOs as opposed to "rescued seconds." The one full one I have is pretty nice. And it has Schrade DNA!
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Thanks for the compliment Charlie on the Old CASE. Also thanks for additional insight on Buffalo Cutlery. So if I understand correctly Buffalo Cutlery would have companies (Schrade and others) make knives for them? The tang stamp has the word "Buffalo" arched like the Old "Utica" tang stamp. I'll try and take a closeup of the tang stamp.

Somewhere in my reading I remember it being listed that other companies other than Schrade would produce their knives. If so, do you know more about those?
 
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Here is a Buffalo Cutlery Co stamp on an old relic I have John. It was Schrade-made, IMO.
Compared to an old "Arch" Schrade;
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Both knives showing the shields;
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Here's a later Buffalo, again, with Schrade DNA.
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I don't see the signs of a ground-away stamp, followed by a cold stamp. These were straight SFOs IMO.
 
Awesome Pruner Paul mate- like Charlie said - Oh Man that Red Bone sings to us!!!

Speaking of Pruners, I received a wonderful - and as-per-usual generous pm from our Jack the other day, ...... i will follow up on this at a later date- Again Jack thank you so much!

Thats real interesting Charlie about the Buffalo stamps, if I ever come across that stamp I certainly know now who to send the knife to :thumbup:
 
Thanks Duncan, I owe you since you got me interested in the Pruner my bank account is somewhat depleted:o

Charlie, thank you for clarifying the "Buffalo Cutlery" mystery on my behalf. I researched info and what I found was incorrect. I love this knife and will search them out more often.

You know the quote from Abraham Lincoln, "you can't always trust what you read on the internet":D

Here's a closeup of my tang stamp, the stamp is actually more clear and crisp in person.

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Interesting knives Charlie, indeed Schrade looks more than reasonable guess of that cutlery. I think that "SFO" is good guess and uncommon for cutlery to produce under different name. On the second photo Schrade Cut. Co is safe bet.
Thanks for sharing
Mike
 
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Jack, really nice group from the kitchen table, love the horseman's knife, they are hard to find for a reasonable price, finally found an example myself that I will post when I get a chance.

Paul, beautiful Case redbone, got to watch out fro those pruners, they get addictive and damaging to the bank account, I find it very hard to resist whenever I get the chance to pick up an old one.

Charlie, love the Buffalo Cutlery Co knives, very nice bone, the bare end with the punch is a great looking knife.
 
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