"Old Knives"

[Gevonovich]

Picked up another Miller Bros, this one a WW1 navy sailors knife, shown next to the large Miller Bros rope knife for comparison.


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A real stunner ,Augie !!! I would love to carry one...just so cool !!

 

[black mamba]

Wow, Augie, Mutt & Jeff knives! Both look fantastic.

 

[paulhilborn]

BEAUTY John

Duncan, wonderful and UNIQUE knife my friend

 

[waynorth]

Nice "set" Augie!! You've covered the "Rope eras"!!
Sail and Steam!!

 

[Augie]

Charlie, Paul, Jeff, Gev, thank you, I was pretty happy to land the little one and even happier to see it was in better shape than I thought when I pulled it out of the box.

Duncan, that is an unusual old fixed blade and a great looking one at that.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Thank You Paul matey.
I am pleased with the old FBFB

Augie many thanks- great Millers buddy - Wow factor in each of them!

 

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[Campbellclanman]

That’s a nice Old Scout Cal.

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Where I got Lyle from I don’t know

 

[CNoyes]

I grabbed this forty dollar Terrier off of Ebay a week or two ago.

I've seen this pattern referred to as a physician's knife, I assume because of that flat bottom "pill crusher" type bolster.

I'm not so sure. it's only 2 7/8" long.

I'm just going to call it a curved jack.

Handle on the back side is cracked, sadly.

There are pits and patina on the blades.

I have only seen one other of these and it was a Robeson.

This Terrier dates 1910 to 1916, so it's already achieved a hundred - plus years of age.

Pattern number 015722. An identical Robeson would be numbered 722015

 

[black mamba]

Nice pearl, Charlie, I just received one myself. Schrade Cut Co #8776 Lobster (I think!) first showed up in the 1928 catalog.
2.87" closed, the mark side has lovely nacre, the pile side a little plain.
The nail file has a different grit on each side of the file, both very effective!

 

[Mike Robuck]

Nice Terrier Charlie. I would attempt to win one on the world's largest auction site, but I think you would beat me to them.

Jeff, hard to find one with the scissors spring still intact and the pearl not chipped or broken. The mark side is sweet and I'm sure even better in person. Nice score.

 

[r8shell]

I grabbed this forty dollar Terrier off of Ebay a week or two ago.

I've seen this pattern referred to as a physician's knife, I assume because of that flat bottom "pill crusher" type bolster.

I'm not so sure. it's only 2 7/8" long.

I'm just going to call it a curved jack.

Handle on the back side is cracked, sadly.

There are pits and patina on the blades.

I have only seen one other of these and it was a Robeson.

This Terrier dates 1910 to 1916, so it's already achieved a hundred - plus years of age.

Pattern number 015722. An identical Robeson would be numbered 722015

Very nice Terrier, Charlie. I've never seen a flat bottomed Jack like that. So cool!

 

[CNoyes]

When Robeson started assigning pattern numbers to their knives in the very early 1900’s, this pattern was the 15th to receive a number.

Bruce Voyles showed a Robeson of this pattern in both editions of his American Blade Collectors Association Guide To Antique Knives. I think that title is correct. Might be off by a word or two.

That is the only other one I’ve ever seen. I don’t recall if that one had a stamped pattern number or not.

I like that Schrade!

 

[black mamba]

Thank you, Mike and Charlie. Lobsters are new territory for me, but the price was right so I jumped.

 

[kai76]

CNoyes Really neat pattern on the Terrier Charlie. I knew it wasn’t going to last long when I saw it listed and had a good feeling you probably had your eyes on it, congrats!

black mamba Nice Schrade lobster. They are also a new territory for me. Lobsters are really cool useful little knives. They disappear in the pocket but come in very handy with tools like nail files, pipe scraper/poker, scissors, etc. I only have 1 and it sees a fair bit of pocket time.

To keep the love for MOP going, here is one I recently got my hands on. A little 2 3/4 Robeson swell center serpentine pen which dates 1916 to 1939. I’ve been bonding with this one...

 

[r8shell]

CNoyes Really neat pattern on the Terrier Charlie. I knew it wasn’t going to last long when I saw it listed and had a good feeling you probably had your eyes on it, congrats!

black mamba Nice Schrade lobster. They are also a new territory for me. Lobsters are really cool useful little knives. They disappear in the pocket but come in very handy with tools like nail files, pipe scraper/poker, scissors, etc. I only have 1 and it sees a fair bit of pocket time.

To keep the love for MOP going, here is one I recently got my hands on. A little 2 3/4 Robeson swell center serpentine pen which dates 1916 to 1939. I’ve been bonding with this one...

That's a lovely little penknife, Nick, I can see why you're bonding with it.

I'm only posting this humble little Western States because I haven't seen many humpback pens like it. I can't quite tell from the camera angles, but does yours have the same differently shaped bolsters on either end?

 

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[kai76]

That's a lovely little penknife, Nick, I can see why you're bonding with it.

I'm only posting this humble little Western States because I haven't seen many humpback pens like it. I can't quite tell from the camera angles, but does yours have the same differently shaped bolsters on either end?

Thanks Rachel! Yes mine does have different shaped bolsters, pretty much like yours. It’s difficult to accurately photograph and capture the iridescence of the pearl handles without angling the shots. Here are a couple of photos taken straight on, hope it gives you a better view. Is that a re-handling project you’re working on? Bone slabs? Would love to see it when it’s done. What is the closed length?

 

[r8shell]

Thanks Rachel! Yes mine does have different shaped bolsters, pretty much like yours. It’s difficult to accurately photograph and capture the iridescence of the pearl handles without angling the shots. Here are a couple of photos taken straight on, hope it gives you a better view. Is that a re-handling project you’re working on? Bone slabs? Would love to see it when it’s done. What is the closed length?

Thanks for the additional pictures, that's some lovely pearl. It's always frustrating for me to take pictures of m.o.p. So hard to catch the colors.

I re-handled the Western States last year, along with re-shaping the broken pen blade into a coping. It's 2 3/4 inches closed, and the new covers are made of old piano key veneers that @T. Erdelyi sent me.

 

[veitsi_poika]

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Pretty cool E/O Cal... odd to see the easy open on that slim equal end frame.