"Old Knives"

This should end my run of knife purchasing for a while...did that just come out of my mouth:eek:

But if I'm going to end on a positive note then this is as good as any. This is a large (not huge) Shapliegh Hardware Diamond Edge Jack. Solid and centered blades and great peachseed jigged bone covers:thumbup:

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Augie said:
One of my finds for the week is this C X Lockwood Brothers Sheffield. This is a very large single blade with beautiful stag handles, hammered pins, nice spear.
I'm not sure of a date, it is not marked England but I doubt it is pre 1890, it is just in too good shape to be that old. I found some information that Lockwood Brothers closed in the 1930's. Jack, can you help me out here? Thanks.

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Very nice Augie !!! You just continue to find some incredible old pieces !!!
Great pictures also !!

Harry
 
paulhilborn said:
This should end my run of knife purchasing for a while...did that just come out of my mouth:eek:

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We will not hold you to that statement Paul !!!
Just a beautiful knife my friend . The peach seed jigging pictures clearly shows what it is supposed to look like.
I totally agree with your statement on another thread about the World Series . I have been watching them on TV since Black & White and only the Don Larson perfect game matched it IMHO .


Harry
 
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Old Engineer said:
We will not hold you to that statement Paul !!!
Just a beautiful knife my friend . The peach seed jigging pictures clearly shows what it is supposed to look like.
I totally agree with your statement on another thread about the World Series . I have been watching them on TV since Black & White and only the Don Larson perfect game matched it IMHO .


Harry
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Thank you Harry, for not holding me to that statement as I just broke that shortly after I posted:o and thank you for your comments on the Shapliegh.

This World Series was amazing. I'm a Twins fan and although as a franchise they only won two they were dramatic games. But this World Series was the best ever for me anyways. I happen to have Don Larsens card still to this day:thumbup:
 
Oh Paul!!!
You my friend are by FAR snatching up all the good knives lately!! Thats so neat to see! This latest is no exception my friend.
stunning Knife.
 
Hey Augie my friend, your pics of your latest knife arent showing for me? - yet others have seen and commented???

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Thank you Jack, Paul, Harry. Jack thanks for the information. Paul wonderful Shapleigh, you are really adding some great knives to your collection.

Duncan, looks like Photobucket is down again, they have been having a lot of problems lately, pictures should show later when they are back up.
 
Paul - another beautiful knife. The jigged red bone just looks amazing with the light hitting it in the last photo.

Augie - I did see your fantastic addition before the photos went down. What a cool blade and great covers.

It has to be a fairly early lockback, no? Does anyone know when the first lockbacks were produced? I didn't realize the style was much older than the Buck 110.
 
You guys are something, I am taking a day break and so many fantastic knives are showing. Wow Paul that pruner is really something and the Voos and and the DE. Augie I can't see the photos, but Lockwood Brothers I am sure you found a dream knife, I had once Lambfoot made by Lockwood Brothers, old Sheffield quality. Can you do something to make the photos show up?

Mike
 
mike Berkovitch said:
You guys are something, I am taking a day break and so many fantastic knives are showing. Wow Paul that pruner is really something and the Voos and and the DE. Augie I can't see the photos, but Lockwood Brothers I am sure you found a dream knife, I had once Lambfoot made by Lockwood Brothers, old Sheffield quality. Can you do something to make the photos show up?

Mike
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Mike, Photobucket is still down,says maintenance but suspect full crash. I will try posting thru the forum when I get home but I've had problems with that before, I don't think the forum likes the size of my pics.
 
huelsdonk said:
It has to be a fairly early lockback, no? Does anyone know when the first lockbacks were produced? I didn't realize the style was much older than the Buck 110.
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They go back a LONG way before that John. They were sometimes known as 'sneck knives' :thumbup:
 
paulhilborn said:
That's interesting Jack, was SNECK givin because of the noise when locking?
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Apparently the origin is Middle English (1275-1325) Paul, and like a lot of old words, it is still in use in Scotland and Northern England. It was most commonly used for the part of a simple door-latch, which you press down with the thumb, so you can see how that would relate to the action of a back-lock :thumbup:

Edit - Apparently, it was originally used to refer to small stones used to fill the gaps between larger stones in a wall, and can be a verb as well as a noun.
 
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Lets see if I can post these thru the forum. Photobucket still down.
 

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huelsdonk said:
Thanks, Jack, for the education. That's fascinating - I had no idea. I enjoyed reading about Sutton & Sons yesterday as well :).
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A pleasure my friend, we all learn plenty here :) :thumbup:

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Lets see if I can post these thru the forum. Photobucket still down.
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Nice Augie, I'd forgotten about posting like that! :D :thumbup:
 
Jack Black said:
Apparently the origin is Middle English (1275-1325) Paul, and like a lot of old words, it is still in use in Scotland and Northern England. It was most commonly used for the part of a simple door-latch, which you press down with the thumb, so you can see how that would relate to the action of a back-lock :thumbup:

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Interesting Jack, thanks for that. Its interesting to me the origin of things:thumbup:
 
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