The Most Beautifully Aged Traditional Knife That You Own

Maybe not the most beautimous aged traditional knife but a nice one none the less.

Case CV 10-dot (1970 manufacture) saw cut red bone barlow.

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The only pocketknife I can remember my Dad carrying (over 30 years). Traveled many miles on CRI&PRR ... still has nice snap and strops to wicked sharp.

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Chief said:
The only pocketknife I can remember my Dad carrying (over 30 years). Traveled many miles on CRI&PRR ... still has nice snap and strops to wicked sharp.

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That is very inspiring for sure. Can you read the pattern number? wow talking about pocket work huh..
 
mudguard said:
That is very inspiring for sure. Can you read the pattern number?
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Thanks, it's a 1940 - 1964 pattern 6332, half stops on all blades, probably why I like half stops. I was born in '56 and my Dad was carrying it in my earliest memories. Dad wrote his name on the liner after breaking off the scale and before covering it with epoxy.

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Gevonovich, you tease...

Meanwhile, here is a Cattaraugus which I would never carry except to show. I was not the person who gave it some personality, but it is one of my very favorite coonfingerees.


 
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That's a fat Teardrop! Fantastic piece and the shield looks the part. all too often the 'wrong' or ill-chosen shield can mar a knife's appearance, this is made for it! Congratulations:thumbup:

Thanks, Will
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She's never really been considered "Beautiful" before, so she couldn't resist being posted in this thread...

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Cheers, Ed
 
My Dad's USAAF Pilot's knife obtained sometime in WWII. He flew A-24s and A-20s with the 3rd Attack Group in Australia and New Guinea in 1942.

The knife spent 20 years or so in a tool box in the garage until we moved Dad in with my sister and we found it in his stuff. He wore it everyday after that until his last trip to the hospital.
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Gevonovich said:
mutinousdoug

What a treasure!! I am very interested in aviation and took opportunity to look up some information. I wonder?

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At the risk of thread hi-jack:

Dad was with the 27th Bomb Group that had shipped to Manila in November 1941, their aircraft to follow. Some 25 or so of the more experienced pilots and a very few technicians were ferried to Australia by Dec 24th to retrieve their diverted planes for the defense of the Philippines . It took until February to assemble/modify a squadron of A-24s ( I believe the 91st Sqdn) to assist in the defense of Java.
Dad was in the 8th Sqdn assigned the defense of New Guinea in April '42 with as many similarly decrepit planes. In March, the 27th had been rolled back into the 3rd BG or 3rd Attack Group as it was to be called for the remainder of the war, occupation of Japan, Korea and until recently.
Of the 1100 or so 27th Bomb Group personnel only about 100 escaped the defense of Manila as infantry or subsequent Bataan death march and POW nightmare.
When and where Dad came to hold this Cattleman/USAAF Pilot knife has gone to his grave with him.

My sister has it now but I get to carry it on occasion.

"3rdattackgroup.org" website, if you can wade through it, has a history of the 27th BG on the links page and then to "The 27th Reports" page.

Doug
 
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