Picked up some heritage at dads last night..

[Hawk45]

Stopped over my fathers house last night for dinner and got to talking about knives. He says "Hold on, I have something for ya" and walks out of the room. Returns back with two fixed blades and an old sock with 8 old folders filling it up. Says "I have no use for them, you should have them" and pushes them across the table. It was like Christmas as a kid, I couldn't wait to open them all up and see what there was. Have a nice Case Stockman in red bone (edited as I had called a Trapper by mistake), old Camillus Electrician (black), few Boy Scouts of America folders and what looks like my grandfathers super beater (brown). There were a few fake pearl handled single blades that were advertisement offerings, but the mico one is really neat, about the size of a half dollar. The fixed blades are my dads Boy Scouts of America and one of my grandfathers I think he won gambling because the sheath has "TIM" etched in it and his name was John.. haha! All of them need a little TLC as they haven't been touched in probably 40+ years at least as that is when grandpa passed and dad was never really into knives.

Anyway, here is the booty. Think I'm going to carry the Case for a little while.

 

[Pipeman]

Congrats Hawk, a wonderful gift of your Family history. All neat knives.

Best regards

Robin

 

[rockgolfer]

Lot of nice 'uns in that group. Wish i could get a sock full of knives


Do they all still function properly?

The bone on that case does look very nice and worn :thumbup:

 

[arizonaranchman]

Wow!! What an incredible thrill that has to be!!!! That trapper is catching my eye first off the. The BSA pocket knives. Were they all your Granfather's?

Congrats!! (Nobody here will complain about some close-ups when you get time!)

 

[N.E.Tim]

Nice variety of knives. Thats a good idea to carry the Case Trapper,
the color is exceptional and it is a handy knife.

 

[clutchcarter]

I'll bet everyone there got a kick out of that HUGE grin on your face when you saw all that booty!:thumbup:

 

[pertinux]

What a great moment! Thanks for bringing us along.

Are y'all calling the red Case stockman at the bottom of the picture a trapper?

Trapper:

Stockman:

(Current production knives, different bolsters, etc., but the blade selection determines the pattern.)

~ P.

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Great collection. The top fixed blade most have been sold by the millions! We get people asking about them from time to time. My Brother-in-law gave me one, I think it was his dad's. The other fixed blade looks like it gave rise to the Marine Ka-Bar, a copy of the Marble's (Ideal?).

Is that Case trapper variant (red) the middle of the bottom row? That's a stockman pattern with a serpentine handle.

 

[N.E.Tim]

What a great moment! Thanks for bringing us along.

Are y'all calling the red Case stockman at the bottom of the picture a trapper?

~ P.

Yes,
Hawk called it a trapper and therefore I commented on his " trapper " knife.
It is probably called a Stockman by Case.

 

[Hawk45]

Thanks guys, yeah it's a Stockman.. I was just looking at the Trapper thread before I posed this, must have been stuck in my head. The all need some TLC.. I just got done with the Stockman. They all have a little rust and are gunked up. I'll take time over the next few days to get hem cleaned up and sharpened. The Case is working like a champ now after a good cleaning and few mins on the sticks.

 

[joeymoey]

Could you please add another pic or two of the top fixed blade? I think I have one exactly like it that was given to me by my grandfather. He said he had it since he was a kid. Even the sheath looks similar. I know its a pretty common design but it looks almost identical. thanks ~

 

[Jack Black]

Congratulations sir, a very nice haul and good of your dad to look after them for you

 

[Groove]

Wow! What a great surprise!

 

[Gevonovich]

Great bunch of knives and history!! What a feeling you must of had...I hope is stays with your forever.

 

[Cutty73]

That's awesome to have some old knives from your dad and grandad

just remember.

Trapper=

Stockman=

LOL

Brian

 

[Hawk45]

I'll post some more pics later tonight or tomorrow. Been spending most of the day getting them cleaned up.. almost done with the folders. They were pretty dirty and a good bit of surface rust on them.

 

[PocketKnifeJimmy]

Very nice cache... and being family connected, icing on the cake!
If you could give us the tang markings on the fixed blade knives, if any, especially that top one, I'd appreciate it

 

[Hawk45]

Just checked on the top fixed blade.. there are absolutely zero maker markings on the knife. Looked it over 4-5 times.

 

[PocketKnifeJimmy]

Thanks for checking... and again, congrats!

I have a GEC made (a Tidioute) fixed blade that I believe was made to very much resemble those basic (and very classic) lines of that knife.

 

[Old & In The Way]

Congrats on the awesome gifts.

One of my grandfathers passed away when I was about 2 years old, so I never really knew him. My other grandfather lived in Virginia, and I only saw him once a year when we went on vacation to help him with the tobacco harvest. He was a fascinating man to me as a kid, and always carried a pocket knife - I remember several that he carried over the years, but they were all harshly used and to my knowledge, none survived. To this day, he's one of the toughest men I've ever met, and he was equally tough on his tools, including his knives. He was not above using the blade of a knife as a screw driver or pry bar, or whatever the situation called for. As far as I know, he never owned a new pick-up truck, and would use the rusted out floorboards of his trucks as de facto tool boxes. I can remember riding around the farm with him as a kid in those trucks, and rummaging around the floorboards and finding a variety of knives with broken blades that he couldn't bring himself to completely discard, but rather just relegate to the floorboard. The one undamaged (at the time) knife of his that I recall most vividly, was a Buck 110. I remember that one for two reasons: 1) that it was bigger than any other folding knife that I had seen to that point in my life, and 2) because he'd do a magic trick with it wherein he would balance an opened 6 foot folding wooden ruler equally off the edge of a table or the tailgate of his truck (which was difficult enough to accomplish), and then open that big Buck up and place it on the end of the ruler that was suspended mid-air and somehow the thing would balance and not tip the whole contraption over. I can remember as a teenager, begging him to teach me that trick, but to no avail. So both his knives and the knowledge of how to do that trick have both vanished, leaving me with nothing but cherished memories.