OLDEST KNIFE YOU OWN

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BillZee

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I started collecting new knives and getting bored. I'm going to start looking for older knives. Especially older USA made pocket knives. I believe that the most fun will be searching. Flea markets, second hand stores, etc. Anyone have a story???
 
My uncle Lace gave me a small 2 blade pen knife way back in 1974.
It was my first knife...and within 12 hours of owning it...I cut myself.
I still have it packed away somewhere.
 
Nothing special, but I've got a mass produced German pocketknife/multitool from maybe the 50's. I stole it from my older brother, who had stolen/gotten it from someone else.
 
1967 Camillus Cub Scout Knife. Used it back then to whittle my Pinewood Derby car. I had it reconditioned about 3 years ago and it's now in the regular rotation.
 
1917 Plumb Bolo. Fresh edge on it, still going strong 103 years later.

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Edited to add: blade was sharpened by Laurence Segal (@Rhinoknives1). It’s absolutely screaming sharp. This thing is a beast that has stood the test of time and still performs. :thumbsup:
 
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Probably a drawknife from a great-uncle's toolbox -- likely late 1800s, along with a Stanley mahogany level that dates to about 1880. Beautiful steel, takes a very fine edge. My BIL has some of his old Solingen wood chisels.
 
Probably my oldest is a Wm Rogers (cut my way) 6" or so blade, stag handle made in Sheffield England in prob the mid 50's.
And yes it's sharp and ready for use.
 
I'm guessing my old Dick Tracy knife that belonged to my stepfather when he was a lad. 1930's-1940's I'd guess.
 
I have my dads ‘boyscout’ knife. It’s an old Robeson Sure Edge daddy Barlow. He said it was old and beat up when he got it and that would have been in about 1948.
 
My oldest is this Scharade Old Timer that my dad bought in 1974. There's no telling how many deer he and I skinned with it or how many times it's been sharpened. I've probably sharpened it over 25 times over the years.

Dad passed away five years ago, and I couldn't find the knife when we were looking through the gun safe and his hunting cabinet. A few months ago, my mom called and said "I found that knife you were looking for. It was in the back of one of dad's tool chests. Do you still want it?" I immediately went over there and picked it up. I sharpened it when I got home, and now it's ready for the next deer or hog I shoot.

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My grandfather's M3 from his time in the seabees during WWII, unfortunately it took a walk with a cleptomaniac I was helping! Friend of Bill if you know, you know!!! Can't keep it unless you give it away!
 
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