Recent Antique Mall finds

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Stopped by a local antique mall and picked these up.

















I have never seen a swiss army type knife with a hawk bill blade and anyone know the handle material on the Remington?
 
I picked up almost the exact same Hammer Brand knife at an Antiques Mall last weekend. Mine only has two blades however.
You did very well shopping. Some great finds! I really like that long pull Remington!!

 
I've been singing the praises of collecting older Colonial/Imperial tin shell knives and the old cardboard display, ($1) knives, they were cheap, they sold millions, there's lots of patterns that were made but here's the rub.

Even though they were so plentiful they were used to destruction in most cases or thrown in a drawer and forgotten about, you ever notice they're either totally roached or in near mint condition. The mint ones are getting harder to find because people like me but then whenever I can.

The prices on these used to be $2-$4 all day long at yard sales and flea markets now they're bringing $10-$30 in his to near mint condition. You did great with these they're great knives, BTW the Remington was a nice score.

I don't know why I keep telling people to collect these, I just make it harder for me to find them cheap :) but I want to see the mint examples of these saved for future collectors.

Here's one I bought for $5 a few years back, you never see them with the chain, magnifying glass and compass, let alone the box.

I found this knife in a box at a fleamarket for $5, it's a Colonial Forest Ranger with a Compass/magnifying glass chain fob.

The scales are hard black plastic the blades are stainless, the stamping is

COLONIAL
PROV.USA

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Of all four I really was excited about the Remington, but that hawk bill caught my eye too. There have been a lot of threads on the site lately about hawk bill knives. All are in really good just dirty shape, all these pics are pre cleaned just got them yesterday.
 
I have a Colonial Mountain Guide that looks like your hawkbill sak.
Love the Remington-
I have experimented with putting new handles on those old imperials, which are great blades.
 
The Imperials and the Hammer are pretty nice, but that Rem is the jewel of the bunch IMO.

Great finds!
 
I can't believe the walk and talk of the blades on the Remington anyone know the handle material can't tell but almost feels like hard rubber but doesn't.
 
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