"Old Knives"

[Campbellclanman]

That's a nice knife Jamie. Quality build and a looker at that!!!

 

[Augie]

Jamie, both the Schrades and the Ulster you posted are very nice, great examples of vintage knives.

Paul, that Scout is a beauty also, nice find.

 

[Gevonovich]

A nice little Ulster stag pen. Very crisp action with half stops on both blades. Very slim to boot.

What exceptional stag, Jamie! Like Charlie said, Ulster made some seriously fine cutlery in their heydays :thumbup:

 

[blademan 13]

Thanks, gents.

That pile side stag is to die for. Funny how often that seems to happen on vintage stag knives, they seemed to have favored the less figured stag for the mark side to simplify the inletting of the shield perhaps?

 

[paulhilborn]

Wow, thought I posted this earlier but Jamie, a wonderful pen Ulster and John that Bartlett is AMAZING!!!

Thank you all for the nice comments on the old Schrade Scout:thumbup:

 

[glennbad]

Wow Jamie, that Ulster is something!

 

[smiling-knife]

Love the Ulster penknife

 

[philllll]

Just got this spectacular old Empire cattle knife!

Still has some of the original "PUNCH KNIFE" etch!

 

[paulhilborn]

Amazing knife Phil, WOW look at that Bone and those wonderful blades

 

[philllll]

But wait there's more!

I also picked up this old split-spring Empire

My favorite thing about this knife, is it pretty well confirms my suspicions about the origin of this Shapleigh version:

 

[Augie]

Phil, what wonderful knives, very nice additions to your collection, that Empire is beautiful.

 

[philllll]

Thank you, Paul and John! I feel very fortunate to have come across these Empires. A fine brand that you don't see too often (I blame Charlie ).

 

[blademan 13]

Phil,
Wonderful knives. I have always thought Empire's were about as good a knife as was made in the day. Sadly, you just don't stumble upon many of the nice examples. Kudos for scoring a pair!

 

[Campbellclanman]

Philllll!!!

Stunning knives. I love the Bone - well absolutely everything about those knives actually.
You have amassed a stunning Collection my friend.

 

[Luger1952]

Phil, everything Duncan said!! Lloyd

 

[waynorth]

Nice scores, Philllll!
Empire may have spent some time as the largest, most successful Cutlery, over the turn of the last century. You can see why.
I don't think anyone used their signature shield (on the punch knife) until Schrade adopted it after WWII, for some special editions. They called it the Empire shield!!

 

[philllll]

Thanks everyone for the nice comments!

I was admiring that shield earlier today and thinking about how I'd never seen it before. Very interesting tidbit about that, Charlie! You have so much insight into the old Empires, you should write a book. I'm serious!

 

[glennbad]

Phil, that Empire! Beauties, thanks for sharing them.

 

[Jack Black]

Nice finds Phil :thumbup:

 

[Old Bowie]

Awesome knives Philll. Empires are very special. Congrats. Could you please post a pic of the back of the splitspring one? And yes Charlie should write a book on Empires.