Small "No Name" E-Z Openers

navihawk

navihawk

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And I do mean little.

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When I got the first one, the one with the shield, so I new the quality was good.There is absolutly not a hint of a stamp on any of them. This is what fascinates me.Were they made by different factories or the same factory only by different personel.Disregarding the German one in the first photo. I have since ammased a few more. They just got a little bath and rubdown.

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The two in the back have half stops, the blades are close but not exactly the same, and they have a fairly large diameter blade pin.
The two in the front don't have half stops,the blades are close in shape and have swedges, the green ones more pronounced. Nail nicks are different and different positions, and the bails are different.
There is a small scout by Wadsworth that seems popular. He uses bone and has stamps.I just know I need more:eek::eek:
They are tight as can be, walk and talk just like the big boys, and they're sharp as can be.

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...and you can carry a half dozen at a time.....
 
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Great post and knives. :thumbup:

My Uncle Paul always carried those little pen knives, and he'd have at least three on him at any one time. Even had a spare one stashed in his tobacco pouch. He kept them sharp and managed to cut all manner of things with a inch and a half of blade.
 
Thanks jackknife. The front left, does anyone know the celluloid pattern?Is it cracked ice? I'm debating putting a shine on it to see what it looks like. It has that "I've spent a few years with keys look about it.
The pictures don't do them,especially the green on justice. If someones got some little ones like this, or the wadsworth scouts start postin'.
 
Not sure about the left front, but the left rear definatly looks like cracked ice celluloid.

If you think any of them are celluloid, keep them wrapped in a cloth seperate from the rest of the knives to protect them.
 
I found another one for collection. This ones like new and the celluloid is like nothing I've ever seen.
These little knives are different in as there are no two alike. Two that I have have half stops with sizeable blade pins. Two don't have half stops ans have smaller pins and swedges. No one knife has the nail nicks in the same spot. the green one is different all together, or similar to one, but the bail is flat. If anyone knows any history of these I would be grateful.
Steve

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If anyone knows where I can get a piece of NS rod and a smal NS nail to make a bail for the one thats missing one let me know.
Thanks
 
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These knives look like they were on a board by the register in old country stores. Probably sold as key chains for a dime or a quarter.
 
navihawk said:
These knives look like they were on a board by the register in old country stores. Probably sold as key chains for a dime or a quarter.
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I remember those.

Some of them look old enough to have been sold as watch fobs.
 
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Orvet put me on to Jantz http://www.jantzsupply.com/ for nickel silver.

Have you found any of those little guys with bone handles? I want one for my easy-opener collection, but I'm seriously cell-averse.
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Thanks for the link, and I think I saw one with bone on the bay.
There's a German maker, Wadsworth, and they made bone ones. Easy openers and scouts, all marked scout on the shield.They have a little following from what I can see so I tend to not bid on them.
 
The lineup as it stands.The Sever Nelson ad knife is a Utica.One piece stamped bolster/liner and it's mint. The one next to it is marked Solingen. I need a new camera, sorry.
The remainder unbranded seem to be made by three different makers.
I'm fighting the urge not to put the ad knife on my keychain.
I just read some of my posts from the begining of this thread. Senility is settling in:o
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Found another.The one on the bottom is the latest. Identical to the third from the top.

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