"Old Knives"

Fantastic !I! Congratulations !! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
Augie said:
Mike, you have posted some stunning vintage knives lately, thanks for sharing!

Picked up a pretty nice knife this week, it is an unused Joseph Rodgers Congress still in its original oil paper sleeve. It is marked Cutlers To His Majesty and has a #6 Norfolk Street address so I think the dates it to the reign of Edward VII 1901 to 1910 or the reign of George V 1910 to 1936. How it remained unused all these years I have no idea.
It's 3 3/4 long, stag handles. blades have factory edges and are sharp, some age staining.

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Mike- as Augie has said you have posted some very very nice Knives! That Utica is something else!!!!!

Augie- I’m surprised you can type - my hands would be shaking so much having got a hold of that JR.
Thats an AMAZING Knife!!!
 
Augie said:
Mike, you have posted some stunning vintage knives lately, thanks for sharing!

Picked up a pretty nice knife this week, it is an unused Joseph Rodgers Congress still in its original oil paper sleeve. It is marked Cutlers To His Majesty and has a #6 Norfolk Street address so I think the dates it to the reign of Edward VII 1901 to 1910 or the reign of George V 1910 to 1936. How it remained unused all these years I have no idea.
It's 3 3/4 long, stag handles. blades have factory edges and are sharp, some age staining.

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Now that is a nice one! I sure wish modern makers could cut their stag like that, so that there is bark from bolster to bolster. Most makers these days polish off half of the bark at both bolster ends, which defeats the purpose of using stag. I am not going to pay stag prices for a knife for which half of the handle area is no different from polished bone.
 
I picked this Queen City #60 up a while ago at a vintage shop but don’t know how old this knife is I’m guessing maybe from the 70’s ?
Maybe someone can chime in as I’m not sure how to read the tang stamp . Think I payed around 12 dollars can’t remember lol . But anyway it’s been used hard but has so much character I had to have it . It’s has great walk and talk with about a nice 6 to 7 pull and snaps shut like a bear trap . No blade play it’s rock solid which is amazing to me because it looks like it was used hard .
Cover on one side is lifting a little could glue but think I’ll jist leave it . All I’ve done is flush her out with some oil and put a nice edge on it since it was pretty bad . Something about this little blade attracted me when I picked it up .
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waynorth said:
Augie, that is one amazing find!! It just doesn't get any better, IMO!!
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Campbellclanman said:
Mike- as Augie has said you have posted some very very nice Knives! That Utica is something else!!!!!

Augie- I’m surprised you can type - my hands would be shaking so much having got a hold of that JR.
Thats an AMAZING Knife!!!
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Thanks everyone who commented. appreciate it.

Charlie, got to agree with you, I think it will be pretty hard to top this one but you never know.

Duncan, I think my hands did start shaking when I removed the knife from the box, the seller had done poor pictures and had no pictures of either main blade stamp so the Tobacco Blade stamp was a very pleasant surprise, still can't believe a knife this old could remain unused for all these years.
 
That's a beautiful Rodgers knife. If we assume the paper is original to the knife and that Jos Rodgers started around 1682 (earliest date I have seen) and the company was in business for more than 250 years at that point, that would date it to the 1930s. Seems about right to me.
 
TheFactor said:
I picked this Queen City #60 up a while ago at a vintage shop but don’t know how old this knife is I’m guessing maybe from the 70’s ?
Maybe someone can chime in as I’m not sure how to read the tang stamp . Think I payed around 12 dollars can’t remember lol . But anyway it’s been used hard but has so much character I had to have it . It’s has great walk and talk with about a nice 6 to 7 pull and snaps shut like a bear trap . No blade play it’s rock solid which is amazing to me because it looks like it was used hard .
Cover on one side is lifting a little could glue but think I’ll jist leave it . All I’ve done is flush her out with some oil and put a nice edge on it since it was pretty bad . Something about this little blade attracted me when I picked it up .
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Those are neat old Barlows Factor, I have had one of those and gifted it to a friend, I still have an oil drake version (non aluminum) barlow. Augie is pretty well versed in these so I defer to him. The guy is amazing:thumbsup::D
 
Really enjoying the pics folks :) I've just read through the last 4 pages, and there really are some stunning knives being shown :) Congratulations, and thanks for sharing them :thumbsup:
 
paulhilborn said:
Those are neat old Barlows Factor, I have had one of those and gifted it to a friend, I still have an oil drake version (non aluminum) barlow. Augie is pretty well versed in these so I defer to him. The guy is amazing:thumbsup::D
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No Doubt Paul these are pretty cool :thumbsup:
Hopefully I can find out more about it .
Augie “hint hint “ :D:p
 
TheFactor said:
No Doubt Paul these are pretty cool :thumbsup:
Hopefully I can find out more about it .
Augie “hint hint “ :D:p
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Sorry for not responding sooner, your Barlow is a design unique to Queen and the Pat Number references the patent that Queen obtained for the unique construction. There was a period of time 1961 to 1971 I believe where Queen did not use a tang stamp and would just etch the model Number on the blade so your knife probably dates from that era, I also recall and I may be wrong that Queen only put the patent number on the earlier ones.

Here is a good thread that Modoc Ed did on this knife and patent including the drawings of how the knife is constructed, they are a very unusual Barlow. Despite the aluminum construction I don't think I've ever handled one that was loose, they sure are light in the pocket.

https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/queen-steel-22-barlow-just-arrived.804459/
 
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