Campbellclanman
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Hi everyone.
There seems a strong spark - a little more than usual in the interest of Sheffield knives here lately ( this is a GOOD thing ), mainly thanks to Jack, so I thought it was time I put this thread up, so pull up a chair - NO! - go make a cuppa first, as you know I tend to go on a bit here folks
Not so long ago when I first joined Bladeforums, I put up a wee knife that was a Sheffield whittler, one blade was broken, the wee pen blade was so worn, but the main was fairly ok, it was set up with the wedge spring set-up - of which I had never seen before, so I oohing and aaahing over nothing, and a guy called Jim came in and pretty much told me that lol.
It wasn't a attack, but he was merely stating that it was nothing special and not that rare-anyway, he contacted me behind the scenes as we all do, and Jim and I got to chatting.
I wasn't really aware just who I was talking to, but it turned out that it was Jim Taylor, he and his wife Cindy were VERY much into knives, and I do hear that they had a collection that was quite astonishing.
We didn't stay in touch - all because I am terrible with communication and tend to leave things at long intervals, don't get me wrong - things were great between Jim and I, after a while Jim told me of his illness, at that stage Jim was diagnosed as being terminally ill with Cancer - I couldn't believe it, I didn't realise the just how advanced Jims illness was until one day I received a e-mail from Jims wife Cindy, Jim had passed away, and I felt dreadfully guilty for not contacting Jim a lot more.
I was never interested in his money nor his collection, I appreciated Jim for Jim.
A while ago I met a great older chap through my work - and I looked after him very well and I liked chatting to him, he told me where he lived and I have popped in now and then - it turns out my friend had a collection of cars and planes - and properties that you not believe! - he asked me to pick out a car and he would leave me it in his will, I was quite blown away, but I sat down and had a cuppa with him and thanked him very much, but I couldn't accept his offer, I liked the guy for who he was, not what he had - I still laugh to this day when I told my girls this and they were aghast as to how I COULDNT accept his offer lol - they were younger then, but understood why I said no.
Anyway - back to Jim...
Jim - I hope you are continuing a pathway of adventure, and you touched a small part of my life, and I hope you do not mind me sharing your kindness with others here.
I received an envelope in the mail a short time after talking to Jim, and inside was this envelope with amazingly beautiful handwriting ( this is an art we are loosing folks- but I know my friend Sarah here keeps this art going :thumbup: )
Jim sent me some great labels that were rescued when Sheffield firms shut down - how he did this I don't know, but please read on and accept my apologies for my rambling - I hope you enjoy looking at what I think very much are treasures in their own right!..
There were two envelopes, one was this one....
Inside the first envelope were these 6 great PAMPA Cutlery Labels - Jim explained ( as you see on the envelope ) to be around 100 years old - in Mint condition, here they are...
Close up shots of a couple of them( these have paste glue that just needs water to activate the stickiness - like stamps )
The second envelope was this one......
There were a few different ones in there, so I will just load the photos from now and let you have a look, I am sorry if you find this not so interesting, but I think they are quite neat, and I appreciate what Charlie is doing with GEC to re-create yesteryears labels on his tubes that contain those beauties we are blessed with.
More to come yet folks......
There seems a strong spark - a little more than usual in the interest of Sheffield knives here lately ( this is a GOOD thing ), mainly thanks to Jack, so I thought it was time I put this thread up, so pull up a chair - NO! - go make a cuppa first, as you know I tend to go on a bit here folks
Not so long ago when I first joined Bladeforums, I put up a wee knife that was a Sheffield whittler, one blade was broken, the wee pen blade was so worn, but the main was fairly ok, it was set up with the wedge spring set-up - of which I had never seen before, so I oohing and aaahing over nothing, and a guy called Jim came in and pretty much told me that lol.
It wasn't a attack, but he was merely stating that it was nothing special and not that rare-anyway, he contacted me behind the scenes as we all do, and Jim and I got to chatting.
I wasn't really aware just who I was talking to, but it turned out that it was Jim Taylor, he and his wife Cindy were VERY much into knives, and I do hear that they had a collection that was quite astonishing.
We didn't stay in touch - all because I am terrible with communication and tend to leave things at long intervals, don't get me wrong - things were great between Jim and I, after a while Jim told me of his illness, at that stage Jim was diagnosed as being terminally ill with Cancer - I couldn't believe it, I didn't realise the just how advanced Jims illness was until one day I received a e-mail from Jims wife Cindy, Jim had passed away, and I felt dreadfully guilty for not contacting Jim a lot more.
I was never interested in his money nor his collection, I appreciated Jim for Jim.
A while ago I met a great older chap through my work - and I looked after him very well and I liked chatting to him, he told me where he lived and I have popped in now and then - it turns out my friend had a collection of cars and planes - and properties that you not believe! - he asked me to pick out a car and he would leave me it in his will, I was quite blown away, but I sat down and had a cuppa with him and thanked him very much, but I couldn't accept his offer, I liked the guy for who he was, not what he had - I still laugh to this day when I told my girls this and they were aghast as to how I COULDNT accept his offer lol - they were younger then, but understood why I said no.
Anyway - back to Jim...
Jim - I hope you are continuing a pathway of adventure, and you touched a small part of my life, and I hope you do not mind me sharing your kindness with others here.
I received an envelope in the mail a short time after talking to Jim, and inside was this envelope with amazingly beautiful handwriting ( this is an art we are loosing folks- but I know my friend Sarah here keeps this art going :thumbup: )
Jim sent me some great labels that were rescued when Sheffield firms shut down - how he did this I don't know, but please read on and accept my apologies for my rambling - I hope you enjoy looking at what I think very much are treasures in their own right!..
There were two envelopes, one was this one....
Inside the first envelope were these 6 great PAMPA Cutlery Labels - Jim explained ( as you see on the envelope ) to be around 100 years old - in Mint condition, here they are...
Close up shots of a couple of them( these have paste glue that just needs water to activate the stickiness - like stamps )
The second envelope was this one......
There were a few different ones in there, so I will just load the photos from now and let you have a look, I am sorry if you find this not so interesting, but I think they are quite neat, and I appreciate what Charlie is doing with GEC to re-create yesteryears labels on his tubes that contain those beauties we are blessed with.
More to come yet folks......
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