Photos-Found, box of Grandpa's knives!!!

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My grandfather passed away in 1997 while I was in the Air Force and I flew home to help sort things out at the time. I didn't have a place to take anything back to, so most of the tools and what not that was handed down to me was stored hastily in various places. Here I am tonight, going through some stuff, cleaning out the basement in preperation of selling my house, and I find a cigar box... full of pocket knives! What a great find. There are a couple more that I need to clean up before I can put them in the pictures, but here are the majority of them, take a look, comment on anything you might know something about...

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There are two of these, marked with "O K". Pretty good shape.
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Grandpa was a Ford man...
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Imperial, plastic scales...
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The hotrodder in me says this is cool!...
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This one is just plain awesome to find...
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Growing up in the Utica area, this one is cool to find...
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A promotional kit with a local brake shops name on it, cheap, but cool because of the old local thing...
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Gotta say, I'm a happy camper tonight!
 
Very cool man. I have knives from my dad and father-in-law that were there work knives. Gotta love me.
 
Great find! I've got an exchange a blade kit as well. Similar to yours. Clean the knives up, and enjoy them.
 
Wow!!, I cant imagine finding that, I envy people such as yourself to be able to carry your Grandads knife!...That is to me is just awesome, that Kutmaster Muskrat is great, as well as every other knife....fantastic find.
I saw a thread in Bernard Levines Forum about the U.S Military slippie you have there as well, I think Roland came in and gave us his e-bay winning link to that same knife, which may have been an earlier one?...im not too sure.
Well done:thumbup:
 
Congrats man. That must have been an awesome moment. Some good knives there, too. I have a good number of them myself. Good basic knives. Grandpa's knives? That is unbeatable. Happy for ya.
 
It's great that you have your grandfathers knives!:thumbup:

From the TL-29's it looks like he liked to have a lot of utility in his pocket knives. Not a bad thing at all.

I remember those tool knife kits from the 50's. I hadn't seen one of those in a very long time.

Carl.
 
Good job you found it and the cigar box didn't get chucked out!

Like that Muskrat and Barlow in particular, you unearthed the past in a very nice way, excellent!
 
Oilburner,

Really great older knives! Wish I had the ones my grandpa carried and used! I see you're in Rome...was stationed at Griffiss for 10 years (1976-1985).

Regards,
Ron
 
Looks like a nice Ontario TL-29 there.

BTW, I also was stationed at Griffiss from 86-89.

Nice knives, good to have piece of the family history in hand. Watch the Camillus utility though. The springs were a little brittle on those, and would snap when you least wanted them to.

That Kutmaster Muskrat is cool.

Glenn
 
Thanks guys, I have looked them over a few more times (of coarse). There is also an Imperial Kamp King that isn't in the pics yet as well as a wood scaled TL-90 (no markings) that needs some serious TLC (rust). The Kut Master is kinda cool, but has never been used, as a matter of fact, the grinds on it are horrible, it will need some time on a stone just to get an edge on the blades, guessing that's why it was never used. I did find one more that I remember seeing in his truck when I was a kid and thinking it was cool, some one must have gave it to him, it was always stuck under his seat buried in piles of tools and rags, a folding push dagger thing. Looks like a pistol, with a blade that flods out to where the barrel would be. Completely useless, like I said, someone must have gave it to him and he just tossed it on the floor, but having it now and remembering it from when I was a kid makes it cool. It sits in a pile of tools in the top of my tool box now, lol... never used.
 
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