"Old Knives"

A Crucible Knife Co. boy's knife (1926-1929) on the left, and an Aerial Cutlery regular jack (1912-1944).

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- Stuart
 
V.P., wonderful pearl Ulster which is quite old. Those carved aluminum bolsters were popular with different cutlery companies around the late 1800s to early 1900s.
I don't believe any were produced after WWI. Enclosed is an illustration of your knife from 1915.

Great pair of jigged bone jacks, Duckdog. Love the long pulls and neat to see a long pull on the pen blade of the Aerial.

Beautiful horn on that very nice IXL sleeve board, mitch4ging.

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Nice Knives Stuart.
Herder - nice digging- After learning from previous discussions about the Aluminium Bolsters - I too felt it was extremely early and would have been quite the Knife in it’s day- as it is now!
 
herder said:
V.P., wonderful pearl Ulster which is quite old. Those carved aluminum bolsters were popular with different cutlery companies around the late 1800s to early 1900s.
I don't believe any were produced after WWI. Enclosed is an illustration of your knife from 1915.

Great pair of jigged bone jacks, Duckdog. Love the long pulls and neat to see a long pull on the pen blade of the Aerial.

Beautiful horn on that very nice IXL sleeve board, mitch4ging.

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Thanks!
I was kind of shocked how little it went for!
 
herder said:
V.P., wonderful pearl Ulster which is quite old. Those carved aluminum bolsters were popular with different cutlery companies around the late 1800s to early 1900s.
I don't believe any were produced after WWI. Enclosed is an illustration of your knife from 1915.

Great pair of jigged bone jacks, Duckdog. Love the long pulls and neat to see a long pull on the pen blade of the Aerial.

Beautiful horn on that very nice IXL sleeve board, mitch4ging.

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Very cool Herder, thanks for the info! Always appreciated :thumbsup: It's amazing to me that it has pretty significant blade wear / usage but the pearl is pretty unblemished. It's hard to get good pictures of pearl, seems like dark cloudier days work better, which it was when I took the first couple pics I posted of that knife.

D Duckdog We had a lengthy discussion about Crucible several pages back, not sure if you saw all of that info. Now with the more recent discussion we had on propeller shields, that shield on your crucible looks a lot like the Schrade Cut Co shields that Gevonovich Gevonovich posted but almost a bit "pointier", click to see Gev's pic below. Is the Crucible prop shield different enough to warrant our theory that they were made by Crucible Steel Co and not special factory order knives? Or are they SFO's? Or was there a prop shield vendor selling them to all takers? The mystery continues o_O

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Since I only live 60 minutes from Marinette, WI and grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I love any of the Aerial knives. I never even heard of them until I started accumulating knives, but now I scoop them up whenever I can. That one of yours Stuart is a beauty and is the first I've seen in bone... and nice looking bone at that! All of the Aerial knives I have are celluloid which was their bread and butter, especially picture style handles and advertisement knives. I have one I will post a little later that I have been meaning to get pics of :).

- Kevin
 
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H herder and Campbellclanman Campbellclanman , thanks. veitsi_poika veitsi_poika I missed the entire Crucible discussion, but have caught up now. Thanks, Kevin, for pointing it out and for your research, as it is really interesting. My jack looks a bit like the one @knowtracks posted back on March 6, 2006 (post #205), except for the pulls on the pens and the color of bone. I only have 3 Aerials (one may be a repro), but I really like their looks and construction.
- Stuart
 
A fine leg indeed, Glenn !! I really like the old Utica Kates and that is one I have always liked. Great find !! Enjoy it and I look forward to seeing it more !
 
Agree with my mate Gev there Glenn Sir- that’s a great wee Knife!

Kevin - that Aerial Jack is cool! I like the different things that you pick up on the older knives - such as the Long Pull running right into the Tang! As well as Kick on the Main almost like the Sheffield Stove Pipe Kick!
 
Campbellclanman said:
Agree with my mate Gev there Glenn Sir- that’s a great wee Knife!

Kevin - that Aerial Jack is cool! I like the different things that you pick up on the older knives - such as the Long Pull running right into the Tang! As well as Kick on the Main almost like the Sheffield Stove Pipe Kick!
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Thanks Duncan, yeah I really didn't notice that on the pen long pull until I posted the picture LoL:) I figured someone would notice that :thumbsup: The knife is in amazing shape, snaps and half stop is like new. I know there are some Aerial fakes out there but this one seems legit to me, just a well taken care of knife. So the ''stovepipe'' feature is a common practice in Sheffield?
- Kevin
 
glennbad glennbad Nice leg, sir, and I mean it in the most polite way. Utica Club was a beer that I sought out if I was anywhere that might sell it. I actually was able to purchase a keg of it when I was visiting friends in Miami in the late 1960s. They had a pool, so why not have beer?
- Stuart
 
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