Question

[JK Knives]

Got a question for you guys. What pocketknife style would most likely be carried in the 1930’s through the 1940’s? I’m not just talking about in the outdoors, but in the city too.

 

[bikerector]

Peanut slipjoint? Or a sodbuster or an opinel kinda deal. I think that's before widespread use of locking folders.

Here's a little history I found on the web. No idea on its accuracy.
https://coolmaterial.com/roundup/the-history-of-the-pocket-knife/

 

[JK Knives]

I wonder if a Barlow fits the time period.

 

[bikerector]

I wonder if a Barlow fits the time period.

It does, I saw that in a different "history of folding knives" webpage when I was looking up info. I feel like pen knives were more popular then, so I think a two-bladed barlow might be pretty popular as well and would have been called the more commonly used term "jack-knife" by people who didn't know any better.

This is a little later, 1946, but page 6 of the Camillus catalog shows both a barlow and grand daddy barlow as current models on the bottom left of the page.

http://www.collectors-of-camillus.us/Catalogs/1946-Camilluss.pdf

 

[JK Knives]

Thanks for posting the catalog!

 

[Rob Babcock]

I really have no idea but it's pretty interesting.

 

[f1addict]

Yes, I agree. Very interesting!

 

[1066vik]

barlow, stockman, sodbuster, or peanut - largely depending on your job.

 

[cbach8tw]

Definitely a Barlow, or a two blade jack knife, on the same end with square bolsters and jigged bone.

 

[cbach8tw]

Muskrat pattern? Opposite end blades, two long clips, or one long clip and one spey blade.

 

[Simplejack]

A switch blade for sure. They had to be the hot back then