Some really nice pruners and hawkbills, here's mine, I've posted this one before so excuse my lazy butt, I just voted and pasted
;: The dates are off a few years now but I still use the knife whenever I have kielbasa.
This was my Grandfathers knife, he used it 35 years ago the last time I saw him, (I was 15 then) to cut Kielbasa and smoked/cured meats in the pantry for our afternoon meals along with cutting up bread and onions and peppers to go with the ham.
My cousin found it in the basement and gave it to me as a gift when I went home.
It's gotta be over 65 years old and other than the pitting/character it's as strong as the day he let me use it to cut myself a piece of kielbasa the last day I saw him.
I hadn't even thought of that day or the knife in nearly 35 years, her giving me that knife brought a tear to this old Mad Hungarians eye.
It says Gerlach Poland on the tang I'm not even sure what kind of wood it has for handles, anyone ever seen or heard of this brand.
The funny part, when my grandfather died 30 years ago his daughter in law threw it out and my cousin who's my age (50) garbage picked it and saved that and his Bull Horn that he used to keep his sharpening stone in and hanging on his belt for sharpening his scythe when working in the fields, the horn has to be 100+ years old.
Three more pictures to finish this story:
First is the horn my grandfather had that he kept the sharpening stone in:
Here's a picture of my grandfather and 6 of my mother's brothers and sisters, if you look on his belt you'll see the horn hanging:
For the old folk with bi-focals here's a closeup:
I love family history, this story was posted
in this link before here when I came back from vacation in Hungary two years ago.
