Paw Paw's Knife

Warru,
Emailed one of my best friends,Bruce H.,your pics,his brother,Wayne,is doing a family genealogy.His earliest American relatives,came over on the Mayflower in 1620,oddly enough both his father and mother's side.His brother Larry and I graduated together and when younger he looked VERY much like that young man in the last picture.Thought ya' might like to know that. :) Doug
 
Feller's,what a historical knife! :cool: BRL forum had something going on alluding to teasy.Warru,please take a couple more shots,if you would be so kind.
No disrespect meant to anyone,I must say that. :o
Those two file lines on the ferrule and pommel must be classic Searle's.That's what I'd use if I commissioned one. :p

Warru,if you could get around to posting again,could you get a blade to guard shot?
I don't ask much do I ? :rolleyes:
Doug
 
leatherbird said:
BRL forum had something going on alluding to teasy.
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Hi all,

My posts of this knife were never meant to be "teasy". Where else would one find viewers who would enjoy seeing a bowie knife, I would guess a knife forum. This is a knife passed down in the family so I thought a shot with the first owner and a shot of his g-g-g-g-g-grandson holding it might be pretty cool. I guess it didn't go over well with some viewers of this thread.
 
warru said:
My posts of this knife were never meant to be "teasy"...I guess it didn't go over well with some viewers of this thread.
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Warru, I don't think anyone was referring to your post or pics here on this thread.

I have never seen pics of your family heirloom before and I greatly appreciate you posting them here. You were correct Bladeforums is the perfect venue to share this very special knife with the kind of people who can appreciate it most.

Once again, thank you for sharing. You certainly own a very special piece of history.
 
Warru,
Thank you for the Email and the pic of this national treasure with trade beads.Hope I explained myself in Email.
Thanks for this thread. :thumbup: :cool:
 
Nothing Teasy going on here in my view.

This is the owner of a very important knife sharing pics and knowledge to folks.

I hope there are not thoughts that it should be hidden away out of site and never seen.

Again, thank you for taking the time to show and tell us about this wonderful bowie. I have pictures of it I can look at in books, but to see it here and have a little more understanding of the history behind it is something very special to most of us. If there are detractors (and I have not seen any yet) we can chaulk that up to ignorance.

To many wonderful knives are put away and are difficult to see or even obtain information about. What you have done here is nothing short of a gift to many of us and I am very greatfull!

Gus Kalanzis
 
Bastid said:
Nothing Teasy going on here in my view.

This is the owner of a very important knife sharing pics and knowledge to folks.
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I only partially agree with you.
I think it's pretty crumby that anyone would get on this forum and act like they knew nothing about a knife, even though they knew all about it.
It's like this person doesn't get out enough and is crying for attention.
Look at what Bernard Levine has to say about it.
AND THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME PULLING THIS CRAP EITHER! :mad:
http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=383669
Like Bernard typed: :jerkit:
 
Here's what BRL wrote for those of you who didn't click on the link.
"The Searles knife is real. The owners seem to get their jollies from taunting collectors with it. Hence the picture of the kid impaling his cookie with the sheath. Back in the 1980s they would troll it around every couple of years, fishing for offers, but with no intention of selling it. They treated the whole thing as a big joke. Now they seem to be at it again. I fell for it then. Not again."
It seems to me like a WHOLE class of smilies was created to express the feeling of people who dislike being yanked around. Here's one:
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This knife is considered to be the holy grail of bowies by a lot of people. It is to say the least, an extremely important part of American history. I am sure if put on display, people would travel from around the world to view it. To a large portion of the knife community, a climate controlled environment, white glove handling and a criminal backround check would be the criteria for being in the same room with it. Mixed emotions can be expected when confronted with such an awe inspiring knife of legend. My advice to Warru is to seek the counsel of someone in the know. As the owner and or caretaker of such a blade his name could be forever written in history.
 
R. Ellis said:
This knife is considered to be the holy grail of bowies by a lot of people. It is to say the least, an extremely important part of American history. I am sure if put on display, people would travel from around the world to view it. To a large portion of the knife community, a climate controlled environment, white glove handling and a criminal backround check would be the criteria for being in the same room with it. Mixed emotions can be expected when confronted with such an awe inspiring knife of legend. My advice to Warru is to seek the counsel of someone in the know. As the owner and or caretaker of such a blade his name could be forever written in history.
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Please reread my post, and take a look at the link I posted. Make no mistake, he knows exactly what he's doing.
 
Walking Man said:
I think it's pretty crumby that anyone would get on this forum and act like they knew nothing about a knife, even though they knew all about it.
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Howdy Walking Man,

As there was interest, I answered questions as best I could. (Read my previous posts) Never acting like I knew nothing about this knife.

Walking Man said:
Please reread my post, and take a look at the link I posted. Make no mistake, he knows exactly what he's doing.
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Yes, I shared an image of a knife for people who appreciate Bowie knives, period.


Walking Man, it's too bad that the post of Paw Paw's Knife does not sit well with you.
 
It is so hard to type and make ones self understood perfectly. I see Warru as being a fairly young man judging from the age of his child. If that is the case then whomever Bernard is referring to, would not be him. If he is say 30, he would have been around ten at that time. If it was his father, to inquire about the value of the knife with no intent to sell is well within his right as the heir and rightful owner. It really is not fair to jump to conclusions. Sharing these new images was in itself, a very generous and nice thing for him to do. As a knife, bowie and history nut I appreciate that very much. As a base, greedy, selfish, self serving human, I am ashamed to admit if I owned that knife I would use it as my meal ticket to every knife show in the world to feast my glutenous eyes and then sell it to the highest bidder........If it was my paw paws knife, I hope(and pray) that I might feel differently. There are things more valuable than money and fame. One of them sits there happily munching on a cookie.
 
Warru,
Sorry for posting so much in this thread but I feel I have to.Thanks for the Email and that amazing photo. :D
Congratulations on owning,at least historically,the finest example of a Bowie knife in existence,although I've heard tell of two or three others.Have you had any contact with the owners of these?
Doug Castor
 
R. Ellis, I do feel very differently about a family heirloom of which I am the current caretaker. My great grandfather was the color sergeant of the 4th Virginia Cavalry Regiment during the War Between the States and he carried the regimental battle flag off of the surrender field rather than surrender it to the Yankees. I have it locked up in a safety deposit box, but I do take it out to share it on occasion. One such occasion was Knife Knuts picnic a couple of years ago and we took some pictures of it which I posted in the Political Forum as Ken Cox was most interested. I have shared it elsewhere as well. I will not sell it, even though my wife has tried to get me to do so.
 
warru said:
Hi leatherbird,

The maker is D. Searles of Baton Rouge, La.
As far as an appraisal goes, it is worth a few $.
About 176 years ago it was presented to him by a business colleague. There is family history behind this knife.
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A FEW BUCKS!!!

And I'm a little fat and just slightly ugly. It's worth a mint if it's a verificable Searles.
 
Incredible and wonderful !
I get a kick out of some of these kids on the
"collectors forum" that show a " knife collection" and the oldest thing in there is 1 year.

A collectable knife ..I dunno.. Collectable= VERY scarce, In my book.


Buy yourself a small gun safe( or jewelry safe) for that, and anything else that cannot be repalced...

The other crap is covered under homeowners insurance.

WONDERFUL piece !... It has a value of ZERO ( zero = infinity).. It should never be sold...Pass it on, for the next 176 years...............
 
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