"Old Knives"

Old Engineer said:
Neither an Old Remington or Old Catt deserves to be scrapped IMO .
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Truth! :thumbsup::thumbsup:
herder said:
r8shell, neat old "N. B." folder and certainly not a common stamp. Very little information on them and I would bet it was a contract knife or a major company's "second" line.
There was surely no lack of great knife makers in the Connecticut area at that time who could have produced that model.
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Thanks. It's an almost generic little jack/boy's knife, and I suppose it could have been made by any number of cutlers, maybe Empire. :)
 
Old Engineer said:
Just finished cleaning these 2 Old Knives that I picked up a couple of weeks ago . Remington Scout and Cattaraugus Easy Open .
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It appears that somewhere along the line , somebody put Blueing on the concave side of the Punch . All blades snap opened and closed after oiling and blowing out . Model number is now visible and so is the Patten No. on the 2 piece can opener .
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Not a knife that I will carry because of the Proud Tip of the main blade which has the typical No Nail Nick blade of their Easy Opens that I have seen . Just Oiled & Blown Out and both blades Snap opened and closed with the typical Cattaraugus THWACK .
Total cost for Both was $30 but they both are now rescued . Neither an Old Remington or Old Catt deserves to be scrapped IMO .

Harry
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Nice rescues, Harry!! Most Remington punches have blue or amber "as-tempered colors" inside the curves. They never polished the insides. If you find one polished, it's been "cleaned"!!!
 
r8shell said:
The N. B Knife. (New Britain Knife co.) 1910-1930
I'll have to do some more reading about this one, as I'm not familiar with New Britain. I don't know if they manufactured their own knives, or contracted with another cutlers.
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If I'm right about its age, it's in pretty good condition.
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Cool knife R8Shell :):thumbsup: Looking through Goins and it also lists a "New Britain Hdw Mfg Co" founded by John Kulesza, Antonio Perzanowski and Louis Keplinsky. I did a quick search and found this online along with some pics of other knives with New Britain stamps:

American Machinist:
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American Cutler:
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New Britain, Connecticut was a hot bed of cutlery and especially the manufacture of tools with names like New Britain Machine / Husky brand tools which were bought out by Stanley Tools. Other popular cutlers there were Landers, Frary & Clark and Humason & Beckley. I looked at some pics of LF&C and H&B older ebony "boys knife" style jacks and they look different than yours (pin locations) and the ones pictured above so there is a chance your knife was manufactured by New Britain Knife and sold by New Britain Hardware. The founders are "prominent Polish men" and we know there are some quality knives manufactured in Poland as well. Just giving you some leads :D
 
veitsi_poika said:
Cool knife R8Shell :):thumbsup: Looking through Goins and it also lists a "New Britain Hdw Mfg Co" founded by John Kulesza, Antonio Perzanowski and Louis Keplinsky. I did a quick search and found this online along with some pics of other knives with New Britain stamps:

American Machinist:
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American Cutler:
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New Britain, Connecticut was a hot bed of cutlery and especially the manufacture of tools with names like New Britain Machine / Husky brand tools which were bought out by Stanley Tools. Other popular cutlers there were Landers, Frary & Clark and Humason & Beckley. I looked at some pics of LF&C and H&B older ebony "boys knife" style jacks and they look different than yours (pin locations) and the ones pictured above so there is a chance your knife was manufactured by New Britain Knife and sold by New Britain Hardware. The founders are "prominent Polish men" and we know there are some quality knives manufactured in Poland as well. Just giving you some leads :D
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Thank you! The two pictured sure look like mine. Similar pin placement and swedging.
 
waynorth said:
Nice rescues, Harry!! Most Remington punches have blue or amber "as-tempered colors" inside the curves. They never polished the insides. If you find one polished, it's been "cleaned"!!!
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Thank you Charlie and Campbellclanman Campbellclanman : I did clean up the concave side of the punch but did not clean it enough to remove the Blueing or " As Tempered " color .

Harry
 
Old Engineer said:
Just finished cleaning these 2 Old Knives that I picked up a couple of weeks ago . Remington Scout and Cattaraugus Easy Open .
Before :



After :



Before :


It appears that somewhere along the line , somebody put Blueing on the concave side of the Punch . All blades snap opened and closed after oiling and blowing out . Model number is now visible and so is the Patten No. on the 2 piece can opener .
After :


Not a knife that I will carry because of the Proud Tip of the main blade which has the typical No Nail Nick blade of their Easy Opens that I have seen . Just Oiled & Blown Out and both blades Snap opened and closed with the typical Cattaraugus THWACK .
Total cost for Both was $30 but they both are now rescued . Neither an Old Remington or Old Catt deserves to be scrapped IMO .

Harry
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Very cool Harry! I used to shy away from the rusty knives but now that I have developed some procedures to clean them up, I've found it very relaxing and fulfilling to do. Sometimes I'll just be looking at one of the rusty ones that I have set aside and suddenly an hour later I have it picture ready without really even planning to do it in the first place LoL! My wife will holler down to me in the knife cave "whatcha doin' down there?" and I'll say "I guess I'm cleaning up a knife." o_O:D
 
Good morning everyone,lots of nice knives posted lately everyone, been very hard for me to keep up as the job has me worn out. I've managed to add several old ones but have not had time to take pics.
Did take some pics this morning of a curved tang stamp Utica jack, great bone on this one, close to full blades but would have like to have seen the rust a little less aggressively cleaned, still a very attractive early Utica jack.

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Augie said:
Good morning everyone,lots of nice knives posted lately everyone, been very hard for me to keep up as the job has me worn out. I've managed to add several old ones but have not had time to take pics.
Did take some pics this morning of a curved tang stamp Utica jack, great bone on this one, close to full blades but would have like to have seen the rust a little less aggressively cleaned, still a very attractive early Utica jack.

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Oh, that bone is lovely!
 
Old Engineer said:

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Before :


It appears that somewhere along the line , somebody put Blueing on the concave side of the Punch . All blades snap opened and closed after oiling and blowing out . Model number is now visible and so is the Patten No. on the 2 piece can opener .
After :


Not a knife that I will carry because of the Proud Tip of the main blade which has the typical No Nail Nick blade of their Easy Opens that I have seen . Just Oiled & Blown Out and both blades Snap opened and closed with the typical Cattaraugus THWACK .
Total cost for Both was $30 but they both are now rescued . Neither an Old Remington or Old Catt deserves to be scrapped IMO .

Harry
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Nice work, Harry !! Just catching up on this thread.

r8shell r8shell

The NB is a great knife...I really like it.
 
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I’m going to stand in at the end of the Queue my friend and join in with what’s being said about that Utica Augie matey.

What a lovely Jack that is- Stunning Bone as mentioned- Oh to have a stable of Utica’s with that Stamp my friend!
 
Thank you everyone for the comments on the Utica, much appreciated. Do love the bone on the old knives, seems to be an art form that is lost to time although GEC gets close at times.
 
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