OLDEST KNIFE YOU OWN

Venice said:
Bought these both in the mid 70s. Beat `em pretty good.

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Venice, I've got an old Ulster in the same pattern (No bale though.) Sadly can't use it, too loose.
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The knife I have owned the longest is the Loewen Messer Hippekniep that I bought in Amsterdam in 1970. I have a flea market Imperial TL-29 that might be older, but I have never tried to date it.
 
CSG said:
Interesting you posted that! I have two authenticated Clovis spear points I bought back in the 80's. About 10,000 years old. However, I didn't consider them knives so I posted about my inherited Dict Tracy knife instead.
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the oldest I own is an 1867 folding fruit knife, silver and mother of pearl. the second one is probably 50s or so, but i'm not sure, I think its stag handled, both have weak springs and not much blade left so are just display pieces.
 
Black Oak Bladeworks said:
Very nice! I am not actually sure mine was a knife, seems more likely it was spear head but I don't know. Could have been either I suppose.
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To me, it looks a lot like a Folsom arrow point but I don't see the typical center flute that you see in most Folsom points. Mine are definitely spear points as they are both in the 6" range (I thought I had photos of them but couldn't find them in my photo library).
Here's a link to images of Folsom points. See what you think:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffsb&q=folsom+arrow+points&iax=images&ia=images
 
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Got some kind of French agricultural fixed blade knife I picked up at an estate sale, large sheeps foot style blade and either hickory or walnut (?), the brother of the guy said they remember using it to butcher beef or hogs. It has the word Bret Acier Fondu and 1916 on it, which I do not know is a year or a pattern number, maybe the year made became the pattern number. acier fondu means cast steel. I have seen some French pictures of a similar knife with the same markings and I think it said combat machete. Levine looked it up for me several years ago, I think that is why I believe it was a agricultural tool, not much more about that. so if my imagination can run away with me, maybe a returning Doughboy from WWI brought it home as a souvenir and it wound up on a family farm? Never buy the story I guess without provenance. :rolleyes:
 
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My first expensive knife at the time was this Spyderco Police in ATS34, about 2000-2001, broke the tip using as a screwdriver, I didnt know much about knives back then
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Black Oak Bladeworks said:
You will have to dig some phones up! I would love to see them! I was told its a Dalton, because it lacks a long flute. It looks very similar to a Folsom though.
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I'm no expert. I took some archaeology classes many years ago. Doing a quick check, Dalton is another good guess. That long flute in some of these points is pretty indicative of the period they came from.
 
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