Show me the "Real McCoy's" Articles of the Early day Traditional Knives

[TinyDog]

Folks,

What you got Squirreled away? Lets see some genuine articles from the knife companies of the past we treasure. The stuff related to our traditional's, But not knives themselves but memorabilia stuff that has long gone by the wayside that is far and few between, much more rare than any knife of the same period.....

With this first post, Can you possibly imagine a company of today packaging a dozen items in this fashion? :courage: Plenty of McCoy's out there,would love to see some of your treasures that are more or less the same.................

 

[clutchcarter]

Here you go. ....Some old printing blocks used in either catalogs or maybe ads, and an old Pine Knot box that probably had a fixed blade knife or kitchen knives in it.
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[paulhilborn]

Here are a couple of hands on artifacts from the employees who, designed, built and shipped out many vintage knives:thumbup:

 

[clutchcarter]

Very cool Paul!
Here's a time card for one if those hard working knife factory folks.

 

[judco]

Love that time card

 

[supratentorial]

Original box

Original 1910 catalog

 

[TinyDog]

Come On Fellows, This is the rare stuff..... Some awesome starters for this thread for sure. There must be a few more :torn::torn:

 

[TinyDog]

Very cool Paul!
Here's a time card for one if those hard working knife factory folks.

Nice Piece! This stuff is a treasure Obviously not the same pay as today @ $1.65 an Hour, pretty sick and an amazing salary in 1910. I can remember what I made in the early 70's per Hr but do not want to say, may have been .90 cents more..............

 

[paulhilborn]

@ clutchcarter, Thank you Mark:thumbup: the time card is a really neat piece and for a paper product to survive in that condition is even more remarkable

 

[TsarBomba]

Here's a time card for one if those hard working knife factory folks.

Coming soon: "100 Years of Punchin' the Clock". What a unique item! :thumbup:

Original box

I would love to reinforce my collection with the original contents of that carton...

 

[Ernie1980]

Very cool Paul!
Here's a time card for one if those hard working knife factory folks.

Hard working is right! That comes out to about .60 an hour...which translates to just over $8.00 today!!! That is quite a piece of history, thanks for sharing:thumbup:

The best I have to add is this old hone that belonged to my grandad.
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[TinyDog]

Guys,

Here is an interesting piece I picked up several years ago. Funny thing is when I came back into my office after photographing it I noticed a watermark on the paper when holding it up to the light. It is not visible from either side of the Document. "Corlies Macy & Company, New York" looked it up and it was a stationery company of the day.

 

[TsarBomba]

Here is an interesting piece I picked up several years ago. Funny thing is when I came back into my office after photographing it I noticed a watermark on the paper when holding it up to the light. It is not visible from either side of the Document. "Corlies Macy & Company, New York" looked it up and it was a stationery company of the day.

That is an awesome collectible. Kinda wish some of the knives represented there could be had for those prices these days.

 

[lambertiana]

That is an awesome collectible. Kinda wish some of the knives represented there could be had for those prices these days.

Things like this really bring home the concept that a lot more knives were sold per capita back then. Theo. Perkins could not have been a big operation, but they bought a good number. The really big numbers that I have seen are from a later date; according to LG4, in Feb 1931 Remington announced that they were making 10,000 knives per DAY, and in 1940 Imperial was making 100,000 knives/DAY (most were probably the cheap shell-handled Stiehl or Elosi patent design).

 

[paulhilborn]

Very neat piece there Tiny Dog, very neat!!!

 

[Goetztalon]

27.23 for a 45 hour week is a little less than a 1.65 a hour lol!!!

 

[TinyDog]

That is an awesome collectible. Kinda wish some of the knives represented there could be had for those prices these days.

Here is one from this period. A simple 2 blade Bare head Jack in Ebony. I do not know the pattern on this but would guess it is one of the 22xx series shown. It would be a great value @ .20 cents each.

 

[black mamba]

I get a kick out of this 40 year old Schrade Walden plastic packaging and insert. BTW, the knife is pretty nice, too!

 

[clutchcarter]

Cool stuff guys. Has anyone else noticed the change in handwriting style over the years?

 

[TinyDog]

Cool stuff guys. Has anyone else noticed the change in handwriting style over the years?

Mark, YES! Its funny you made mention of this. I have a peer at work who is currently working on his longhand. He has bought several of the fountain type pens, and some books for instruction. Handwriting is No longer in public schools so what's next? It is really cool to see this type of Art!

Jeff, A sweet Schrade there for sure. You gotto love the packaging stuff. Nice find Sir!