The Otley Run - Giveaway (The Run is now done)

eisman said:
Thank you, thank you, thank you, and thank you.

I've been needing a crochet hook (I don't have one, so I must be needing one)...
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Thanks again for all your kind comments gents, and for all the great contributions.

Sorry Eisman, I think I missed this post before. Glad you're pleased with the crochet hook, I'm sure it could fulfill a number of uses! Congratulations! :)

Here's a few more pics of the Otley Tompkins, taken this afternoon. Does anyone have any thoughts on what the scales might be made of? I thought they were bone when I saw the knife in the shop, but they don't have the feel of old white bone at all, there's no dryness, and they're flawlessly smooth. They could just be plastic of course, but this looks like an old knife to me, and it's clearly been well-used, yet there are no pits or burns in the scales at all. I'm sure they'll clean up real nice.



 
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Whalebone? Is there a creature with uniformly white horns?
I don't know, but I looked up Tompkin in my Levine 2cd. Mark of Flockton Tompkin & Co, made by J Nowill, maybe a retailer's brand, fl. ca 1910.

Per Grace's Guide, Flockton, Tompkin and Co of Newhall Steel Works in Sheffield, was est 1806, merged with someone and incorporated as a private limited company 1860, was making crucible steel in 1914.
 
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scrteened porch said:
Whalebone? Is there a creature with uniformly white horns?
I don't know, but I looked up Tompkin in my Levine 2cd. Mark of Flockton Tompkin & Co, made by J Nowill, maybe a retailer's brand, fl. ca 1910.
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Thanks for the info SP. I didn't think there'd be many visitors to this thread now, so I started another thread. Maybe I've been a bit impetuous :o
 
A great thread and a great giveaway! Congrats to the winners and thank you for the fun read Jack :)
 
Thanks for the chances, Jack. Speaking strictly for myself I think you're the big winner with the scout knife and the fishing knife. But as they say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Thanks for all the pictures and the effort. Who knows, maybe one day I'll make it to Otley myself.
 
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