"Old Knives"

I can't keep up with all the nice knives being posted.

waynorth said:
Has there ever been a Napanoch Farmers Jack, Lyle??
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Interesting question, as they had contracts with now defunct Sears and Roebuck , producing the Wilbert knives.The Wilberts I have, I am fairly certain are Camillus, or did Camillus adopt the Napanoch design? Hmmm

We've never heard of one, until we do.Case in point , the little Schatt and Morgan.

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galvanic1882 said:
Great knives guys!! I have this little pearl coming from Australia, hope to have it this week. I am curious as to what this pattern is called. It's like a ring turner but with the tabs that you turn instead of rings? Also wish I could get a picture of the german patent that is on the knife? Any help would be great. Tang has Velox on it which is a mark used by Neumeyer & Dimond 1905-1906 according to GoinsView attachment 1008118 View attachment 1008119
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galvanic1882, that is an interesting old knife and enclosed is some information that I posted for the same model in another knife site a few years ago.

Beautiful little knife. It was made by Heinrich Kaufmann who also held the patent for that mechanism (along with F. Benz). Kaufmann was a German cutlery company which existed from 1856 to 1995. Both the "Velox" and "3 flowers" stamps were trademarks of Kaufmann. The patent number on your model is a patent pending number and "Pat. Ang." is short for Patent Angemeldt, which translates to Patent Pending from German. The earliest actual patent I could find for this model was from 1908, and fits perfectly with the "Velox" trademark which was registered in 1909. This gives a pretty good idea as to when this knife was made. Enclosed is the 1908 patent with a brief description which includes the mention of operation and reference to it being a puzzle knife.

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Loving those two knives - both in my view extremely nice knives, I love those Challenges - and yours Augie is a fine example, that Winchester is a great find as well- outstanding knife my friend.

That Ebony pair leaves the rest in despair.
 
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Just got this old French Butcher's Knife. It has a 163mm flat ground blade. I have no idea what steel it is.
 
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Thank you all so much for the comments on the ebony jacks, vintage ebony is hard to beat, it seems to be denser and blacker than what is available today.

3 more I added recently, all are roughly boys knife size, 2 rare tang stamps' Hollinger Fremont Ohio and a Capitol Cut Co Indianapolis. The NYK is a sweet little swell end with a great shield in ebony.

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herder said:
galvanic1882, that is an interesting old knife and enclosed is some information that I posted for the same model in another knife site a few years ago.

Beautiful little knife. It was made by Heinrich Kaufmann who also held the patent for that mechanism (along with F. Benz). Kaufmann was a German cutlery company which existed from 1856 to 1995. Both the "Velox" and "3 flowers" stamps were trademarks of Kaufmann. The patent number on your model is a patent pending number and "Pat. Ang." is short for Patent Angemeldt, which translates to Patent Pending from German. The earliest actual patent I could find for this model was from 1908, and fits perfectly with the "Velox" trademark which was registered in 1909. This gives a pretty good idea as to when this knife was made. Enclosed is the 1908 patent with a brief description which includes the mention of operation and reference to it being a puzzle knife.

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Thanks for the info, can't wait to get the knife!!
 
John nice knives. I read somewhere I think that that Fremont area made or sold or something knives than anywhere in the USA??

Anybody else ???
 
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