Oldest knife you own

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i got a gerber chromed magnum from my father who got it from his father, who got it as a gift from the army for surviving the march in ww2.
 
peter r said:
i got a gerber chromed magnum from my father who got it from his father, who got it as a gift from the army for surviving the march in ww2.
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:eek:WOw!You got a pic?I love to see a pic,if you could.
 
That'd probably be either a Wenger Esquire or a Schrade 204s, whatever model that is/was (from before Schrade was bought out)--looks like the electrician's knife, but doesn't have the pruning blade; it's possible that blade broke and was reground at some point. Both of those knives had been around the house for some time when I was a teen not seeing any use and, at some point, I "adopted" them.
 
My Buck 110. I found it in 1976 on the road and have had it ever since.
 
The oldest knife I own is probably this New York Knife Co. "Stabber" Jack at pert near a hunnerd [sic] years old, give or take a decade or two.

The knife I've had the longest is most likely this dawg-ugly-but-solid SOG Stingray from '86 or thereabouts. I had quite a few knives in the '70s and early '80s, but they've all grown legs and "R-U-N-N-O-F-T" over the years:

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Ive have 2. Ist is an older Schrade-Walden model 226 I used when I was in

the Navy. 5 1/4 handle and 2 4" blades. I sharpened the hell out of both

blades...which were at least 30% bigger when I got the knife.

Second is an old(antique) Russell-Green River Works fixed. 5 3/8 handle and

a 5 1/2 blade. The handle is wrapped a very thin cord. The knife is at least

75 years old I think. Someone at a knife show told me me its a sheep

shearing knife. Id like to sell the Russell fb.
 
My gradfather's butcher knife. Henckels twin. Circa 1910 or so. The handle fell off and I put this stag one on. The edge is the edge he left on it when he died in 1963 and it is very sharp.

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I bought a Randall Model 1-6 in 1966 for immediate delivery from a dealer for $ 35 shipped.
 
Probably this little Schrade Old Timer Junior Stockman, carbon steel blades. The main blade has been resharpened so many times ... well, one can barely use it now.

Hard to say how old it is. It came to me from my grandfather when I was very young ... and that was a long, long time ago.
 
The knife that I've had the longest is my benchmade nimravus I bought while living in Greensboro NC. It was the first knife that I spent over 100 dollars for. It cost me 145.00. I got the model in ats-34 it does not have the new textured scales or the deeper finger groove but it has done everything asked of it. I keep it just because it works and I like it. While other knives do ge used more now I will still never sell it. I think it is the knife that started my sometime neurotic hobby of buying more and more knives.
 
Found on the trail a couple of years ago, a Buck 112 from the early 70's...sent up to the factory for tuning and a sharpen and it's well used but good for another lifetime...

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jkarp_53 said:
Found on the trail a couple of years ago, a Buck 112 from the early 70's...sent up to the factory for tuning and a sharpen and it's well used but good for another lifetime...
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Is it me or is there no nail nick?
 
i have an old swedish made carving knife. the blade would have to be 14" long at least.

it would be at least 50+ years old and was made by the Crown and Anchor firm in Eskiltuna, Sweden.
 
My Grandparents bought me this for my 9th birthday, 30 years ago.

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It's not a quality knife by any means, one of the springs has worn allowing the blade to wobble around and rendering it pretty much useless, but i keep it for sentimental reasons.

As far as i can find out, it was made in Sheffield England by a German company called Richards.
 
Does a Bronze Age dagger from Luristan, ca 1000 BC count as an old knife?

Rich S
 
Sorry, No pic - but the knife is from my great - great grandfather who removed it from someone's back in the 1850's = a texas toothpick pattern with true ivory scales - main blade locks with secondary as the release! - the name is there but unreadable! - second a Dwight Divine BSA from the 1920's - and a Remington BSA a decade later! THEN the Case 6111 1/2 L from my dad in 1944 - but that's only the beginning!
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