Slipjoint Jackpot !

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Tostig

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Earlier this week an old buddy of mine ( the same one that hooks me up with old slipjoints from time to time ) calls me and says he just scored a bucket of pocket knives , when I asked him how many I was surprised when he said about seventy !!

So he wanted me to look them over and see what ones were more desirable than others , not that I'm an expert like some of you but I do know my major brands and patterns to an extent.

Mind you that many of these have seen better days in one form or another , from broken blades or chipped handles , missing scales , most of them exhibit rust in some areas and all of them need a good cleaning and sharpening !

nonetheless there are some nice old patterns that I have never seen , and i'm positve some rarities that would fetch a handsome price if they were fully intact.

Marks are everything from Camillus , Remington , Cutco , Robeseon , Camco , Hammer , Imperial... etc etc

Some of these I do not know what there origin is , for instance the ones that resemble AG Russels 'funny folder'... and the bottom pic is ??? What in the heck are those for ? Alien TV antennas ? :p

Sorry for the bad picx quality , only camera on hand was my phone camera.

It sure was fun pawing thru are that history and there were some definate shame moments when I went "ooooHH!!" only to discover the knife was missing a blade or had a significant chip out of the tip , missing scales.....

Enjoy !


Tostig


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Nice haul!

Those 'funny folders' were popular in the 1950's as a cheaply made advertising knife. With the simple stamped construction and two pins holding it together, they were engraved/stamped with a company's logo or name and given out to customers.

There's also a Christy knife in the mix. One could say with roots going back before WW2, it may have been one of the first one handled pocket knives of the 20th century, short of a "switchblade."
 
VERY impressive haul Tostig! Methinks I see a couple of old Schrades in that mix; The brown bone jack and the black handled serpentine almost next to it? They're calling to me...:D

The wood handled jack next to the George Schrade wire jack looks like an Ulster. I fact I see a number of Ulsters there, and a NICE two tone Imperial. Man, you DO have a lot of history there!:thumbup::thumbup:

Eric
 
Hi,

Now that's a fun haul! There are a few in there I'd like to see and handle. I'm jealous.

dalee
 
Thanks for the replies folks ! :)

I scored five out of the pile , two of which are pretty beyond help... the others im working on over the next few weeks , one of them is a Colonial 'high carbon steel' - "SAK" style knife.
One is an old Camillus that is toasted ! The main blade is still pretty good but the jigged bone is gone and the other two blades are nasty... so I'm gonna make it into a single blade , sooner or later..

That little two tone Imperial is sweet , in very good shape and very classy.. there are some pretty decent finds in there , some brands I've never heard of before.

The thing that chafes my behind is that many of the knives were very crudely sharpened thus permanently marring the blades , I mean they still cut lol but as far as beauty goes ... I guess it's still in the eye of the beholder. :)

Oh , and not a single Toothpick in the haul ! My favorite pattern was not to be found..


Tostig
 
No idea whatsoever ! My guess is its some sort of ladies devive to hold their purse mirror while they put on makeup ? Hehe. I don't have any other ideas. :)

Tostig
 
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