"Old Knives"

[Jack Black]

My dad's EDC. Anyone got a smaller one?

Nice knife





Sorry :thumbup:

 

[r8shell]

martinwoods, that looks like the kind of knife a kid could win as a prize at a carnival game or in a gum-ball machine. It probably has some sentimental value if he's carried it for so long. Very cool. :thumbup:

 

[martinwoods_uk]

Nice knife





Sorry [emoji106]

if I had any idea how big a quarter is could be impressed. I'm guessing your knife is about a third the size of my dad's old thing

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[Jack Black]

if I had any idea how big a quarter is could be impressed. I'm guessing your knife is about a third the size of my dad's old thing

Here it is next to a grain of rice :thumbup:



I think the top knife is probably closer in size to your dad's knife Martin :thumbup:

 

[Campbellclanman]

Having a wee chuckle looking at the knife next to the grain of Rice Jack lol!

 

[Primble]

Here it is next to a grain of rice :thumbup:

Leave it to Mr. Jack to have such a tiny knife !

Question is - how hard is it to sharpen that baby ?!!! (probably has a toothpick sized ceramic stick as well)

 

[herder]

Nice Barlow group, Luger.
Great old multi-blade "Krebs", old engineer, and I would agree with Campbellclanman that it looks to be pre WWII.
Cute little folder, martinwoods-uk, but it looks like a folding Bowie compared to Jack's tiny example.

 

[herder]

"Landers, Frary, & Clark" existed for over 100 years (1862 to 1965) but only produced folding knives from 1912 to about 1940.

 

[Old Engineer]

"Landers, Frary, & Clark" existed for over 100 years (1862 to 1965) but only produced folding knives from 1912 to about 1940.

I think that I can safely say that that is the nicest looking LF&C POCKET KNIFE that I have ever seen .

Harry

 

[paulhilborn]

I think that I can safely say that that is the nicest looking LF&C POCKET KNIFE that I have ever seen .

Harry

I'll second that Harry, WONDERFUL knife herder

 

[knarfeng]

My dad's EDC.

Anyone shed some light on this tiny thing?

Looks to be a "fob knife", worn at the end of a pocket watch chain.
Watch at one end, this at the other.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Ya got me beat Jack, I bow to the master.

These are some of my smallest, the only us made one is the little ulu made in AK by a native to be a piece of Jewelry. The other pieces, including the gold pen are from the UK, the tiniest is unmarked. I don't think there's room to legibly fit a tang stamp of any kind anyway.

 

[T. Erdelyi]

Frank I'd think it was too small to be a fob knife, the gold pen in the bottom of my pic is a fob knife and even that's on the small size. I tend to agree that it's a gumball machine knife, back in the 60s they used to have little lighters, the little Japanese spy cameras and little knives, I wish I still had the placard from the inside of my old gumball/toy machine, it had those three things on the card along with a whistle, a mini deck of playing cards, (remember those?) and a few other little toys I can't recall.

The little lighter came from a gumball machine.

 

[btb01]

Leave it to Mr. Jack to have such a tiny knife !

Question is - how hard is it to sharpen that baby ?!!! (probably has a toothpick sized ceramic stick as well)

Better not use too coarse a stone; a few strokes and there'd be nothing left!

 

[Jack Black]

Thanks for the laughs gents! Much appreciated :thumbup: The tiny knife was given to me by a guy in the market, who spotted it in the corner of an empty cardboard box. Some eyesight eh?! I have a lot of small knives, kind of like them :thumbup:

Some great stuff there Ted :thumbup:

Beautiful old Jack my friend :thumbup:

Thought I'd throw in a pic of this old Christopher Johnson :thumbup:

 

[Augie]

Jack, that Chris Johnson is a looker, wood and brass makes an attractive package. This is a H M Slater in wood and brass,

 

[Augie]

Herder, that is a really nice LF&C, they seem to be hard to find in decent condition.

Lloyd, great bunch of Schrade Barlow's.

Pul, that is a very impressive collection of pruners you have, wonderful bone on many of those.

 

[Jack Black]

Jack, that Chris Johnson is a looker, wood and brass makes an attractive package. This is a H M Slater in wood and brass,

Thank you my friend It is nice to see that one again, I remember when we discussed it before, what great bolsters :thumbup:

 

[huelsdonk]

Many fantastic knives posted lately, large and (ahem) small . As ever, it's a real pleasure to be able to enjoy and learn about all the historic cutlery here. I thought I'd share a few of my recent additions from my adopted home state of Connecticut. Some of the photos didn't come out very well with the fleeting light this time of year, but it's been cold outside - they'll have to do for now.

First up, an Eagle Knife Co. metal jack with a patent date of Oct. 1918 and a George Schrade Hawkbill Wire Jack with a patent date from 1926. Both are inexpensively produced metal knives, but I think they're pretty interesting. Eagle, I understand, was only around for 3 years before Winchester scooped them up. I don't know the first thing about automatic knife grinders, but I guess the Hemmings brothers were quite influential there. The wire jack is just kind of neat. I haven't seen a lot of hawkbill versions of it. It actually operates quite slickly.

Next, a couple of Challenge jacks, both in pretty decent shape.

finally, PRUNERS! I have acquired some pruners! From top to bottom are: Northfield, Empire, Challenge, and Humason & Beckley. With the exception of the Challenge, which is in pretty good nick, they've all had fairly hard lives. Still, they're all still solid and all still walk and talk.

 

[Jack Black]

Beautiful knives John, I love those Challenge Jacks :thumbup: