"Old Knives"

Kai- that’s a smashing Empire- Old Vintage / Antique Jacks like this just absolutely rock - and with a Tang Stamp such as Empire!!!! :eek: No wonder it has that awesome Swage work going on there!
 
veitsi_poika veitsi_poika I’m also leaning towards cocobolo after comparing it to my other cocobolo knives. The grains in a cocobolo pipe I have look almost exactly identical to the wood on this knife. And I think the shield is sexy!!!
 
kai76 said:
Augie Augie That’s one good looking stockman. Love the stag!

Here’s an Empire equal end jack. A really well made solid knife. Not sure if wood is ebony? It has some reddish brown streaks and hues in it.



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My guess is also cocobolo, based on the grain and your mention of reddish hue. I have some cocobolo handled knives that I purchased new with bright red scales that have turned almost this dark in just five or ten years.
 
lambertiana said:
My guess is also cocobolo, based on the grain and your mention of reddish hue. I have some cocobolo handled knives that I purchased new with bright red scales that have turned almost this dark in just five or ten years.
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It was lighter colored with the reddish hues more visible but darkened up slightly after I oiled it. Grain in the wood also looks different from my ebony knives. Cocobolo seems to have more of a swirly grain pattern if that’s the right word for it, from what I’ve seen.
 
Went to a flea market this morning and found this nice Rodgers and Sons (Congress pattern right ?). Too bad half the blades are broken, but I bought it for the handles, the stag and the bolsters looked so nice!
(sorry for the bad pic, I'll take some better ones later)

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Augie said:
Guys, thanks for all the comments on the Wards, Kai, Paul, Keven, great old knives!

Another of the knives a picked up Saturday, a Ka-Bar hawkbill with jigged wood handles, appears to be factory done, vaguely remember seeing another but can't be sure.

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That Ka-Bar looks to be in great shape. Looking closely, the covers appear to have been jigged before being pinned, which would mean factory done, I'd think. (I'm not a professional knife detective, but I do dabble)
Mescladis said:
Went to a flea market this morning and found this nice Rodgers and Sons (Congress pattern right ?). Too bad half the blades are broken, but I bought it for the handles, the stag and the bolsters looked so nice!
(sorry for the bad pic, I'll take some better ones later)

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That's a beaut. I'd have bought it for that stag too, and those broken blades will still cut stuff. :):thumbsup:
 
The seller listed this as "vintage bone jack knife" condition used. I can't argue with that. :D

The tang stamp is worn, and I can only read HO___. Considering the spacing of the stamp, I'm thinking a short word, like "Hobbs" "Home" or "Holly." Any guesses?
The secondary blade is broken off way high up the tang, so I don't know if I could read it even if I could manage to pivot it open.
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Comparing it to the Bunting and Son, it looks English to me. All steel construction. Iron or steel bolsters, rather than the brass and nickel on the Bunting. Being smaller, without the nice swedging on the blade, I'm thinking it wasn't as fancy a knife when new.
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Do you have any photos of your Remington bulldog open?

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veitsi_poika said:
I picked this one up the other day... seller didn't have the best pics of it and the description said "see pictures for description" LoL. So I took a chance on it knowing that it looked like a nice old Remington. I thought based on the old "Remington UMC" circle stamp that it was c.1921-1924 but it turns out it is likely from 1936. I say 1936 specifically because it turns out that this was a one time offer from "Hunter Trader Trapper" magazine as a gift for getting a subscription. This was offered in the October issue of 1936. Mike Robuck has a write-up about these knives in his book and I'm searching for an article that Bernard Levine wrote regarding these in the Knife World magazine as well. I had no idea when I bought the knife that it was particularly rare ;) You will see it is in pretty nice vintage shape... snap is very good and there is no play at all. It's very unique in that it was built on the Remington R3933 frame which was originally for their jumbo sleeveboard whittler, so you will see in the last picture that it actually has two springs for the single blade. The Hunter Trader Trapper catalog called this the Remington "Bulldog" model which I think is aptly named because the sleeveboard frame itself is shaped like a bulldog body; skinny rump and broad shoulders.:D It's 3-5/8" long closed... for scale, I took a pic of it with a Case peanut that I got from one of @r redden 's GAWs :)

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