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Don't get too excited David, that box has been lying around a few years now!Really looking forward to this thread with much interest!
That my big excuse also.
I might have to take my shoes and socks off Duncan!I challenge you Jack to count all your knives
I challenge you Jack to count all your knives
I can see a Northern Sharp Show in the makingLong ago, in the mists of time, when I was a new poster here, some of my earliest threads were about my hunt for the Sharp and Pointy, and about cleaning and fettling the knives I picked up. I posted a series of Round Yorkshire With A Knife posts, and there was also The Wizard's Quest series, which I posted along with threads on Sheffield cutlery history, etc. Unfortunately, every time the BF software has been messed around with, older threads have had their content scrambled, their photo links destroyed, and have often become unsearchable, or even disappeared. Hence, I don't really post threads like that anymore, why bother?
However, I was still picking up a fair few pocket knives, and they began to accumulate on my kitchen table, so I posted a series of threads about the state of my table!Not much point linking to those threads, as there's barely anything left of them
Eventually, I had to clear the table, so I moved all the knives into a couple of boxes. I kept making occasional posts (links to the two most recent - I think - below), but as I feared, with the boxes tucked away in a spare bedroom, I forgot about them, for the most part!
meako referenced the table in
Johnnythefox 's Sharp Show thread, which had already reminded me of the shame of all those knives, tucked away, in my spared bedroom
I'd tell you this (below) is the current shameful state of play, but I've already realised there's a full box of pocket knives missing
"problem"? what "problem"? they look useable ... specially the one with the tartan covers andda bail. If you be up Yorkshire/Wales whey, that one be good when you get gussied up inyer kilt, or when wearing yer tweed waistcoat, a double albert chain with pocket watch on one hook. That Tartan knife would go gr8 on the off-side.As you can see, I have a bit of a problem (this isn't even ONE of the boxes (and I just found a load of other stuff)!
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Lot of cleaning to do!"problem"? what "problem"? they look useable ... specially the one with the tartan covers andda bail. If you be up Yorkshire/Wales whey, that one be good when you get gussied up inyer kilt, or when wearing yer tweed waistcoat, a double albert chain with pocket watch on one hook. That Tartan knife would go gr8 on the off-side.
I'm definitely not wearing a kilt!
me ither ... not in the winter anyway ... be worse than wearing shorts in the winter ...
Wash your mouth out. That should never happen. It leads to words such as, Do you need that many, why don't you sell someI challenge you Jack to count all your knives
Its the knife among the sugar tongs I'm worried about. Away with you JB...To the discount store for some plastic lunchboxes!!
r8shell
is right, there’s bound to be some treasures in there. 
BJE
said, I think we all have a tendency to do this to some degree. I certainly have little piles of knives that tend accumulate like settling dust on various flat surfaces around the house. Jack, just be glad you no longer have any sticky-fingered, knife-grabbing little gremlins running around the house. 
I challenge you Jack to count all your knives
I doubt any of my great-grandfathers sat down to a meal very often in the trenches of WW1, but no British officer would have been properly equipped without a Campaign Set*. They were produced over a long period, and used during the wars on either side. They were private purchase items, and while this is my only example, they are not rare, simply because of the sheer number produced. Much older, and much fancier, sets can be found in a similar style, sometimes with ivory or green ivory handles. This is a typical, simple, utilitarian set by John Unwin James of Sheffield, who lived to a much riper age than any of my grandfathers, three of whom never came back from France. He passed away in 1920, aged 73, with his two sons continuing to trade as a small limited company.
It's dark here, and way past the time for taking pics, but here's a few
* - Having said that, I doubt any of the men in the Sheffield regiment were under-equipped, when it came to cutlery
LOL!me ither ... not in the winter anyway ... be worse than wearing shorts in the winter ...
When I was a boy, all young boys here wore shorts, even when it was thick with snow outside! 
Send your kids out in winter like that today, and you'll be doing jail time! I've just spent a lot of time thinking about the last time Tool Man gave me any sage advice Mitch!Jack each time you go the market take a box, tool man will help you or at least give you sage advice
Years ago, I would sometimes count my knives (in my heads) when I couldn't get to sleep. Now, it'd probably keep me awake all night!Wash your mouth out. That should never happen. It leads to words such as, Do you need that many, why don't you sell some
That's for when the vicar comes round Jon!
Thanks Barrett, I hope soGreat to see some of the contents of the legendary table again, Jack. I think
When friends call round with their kids, I have to warn them that my house is about the least child-friendly place they could find!As
The kid'll wander off into the kitchen, the parent will go, "Oh, he'll be alright." And I go, "Alright?! There's a two foot long Scottish Dirk on the kitchen table!" My memory is so bad, I barely know what I paid for ANYTHING, but I'd be counting them, and suddenly remember there's another box here, or a pile of them somewhere elseCome on, Duncan, you know that’s never a good idea. Do that and the next thing you know your brain starts working up an average price paid, and then the real trouble begins.
Thanks mate, I thought so tooThat’s a really interesting set.
Older than me and you put together 
Has to be recorded too! No cheating!I challenge you Jack to count all your knives
Thanks Steve, I hadn't really expected it to run, I just didn't want to hijackGreat thread Jack !
Johnnythefox
's Sharp Show thread! 
there's a treasure already... so historically interesting, geographically important and generally speaking just cool.I doubt any of my great-grandfathers sat down to a meal very often in the trenches of WW1, but no British officer would have been properly equipped without a Campaign Set*. They were produced over a long period, and used during the wars on either side. They were private purchase items, and while this is my only example, they are not rare, simply because of the sheer number produced. Much older, and much fancier, sets can be found in a similar style, sometimes with ivory or green ivory handles. This is a typical, simple, utilitarian set by John Unwin James of Sheffield, who lived to a much riper age than any of my grandfathers, three of whom never came back from France. He passed away in 1920, aged 73, with his two sons continuing to trade as a small limited company.
It's dark here, and way past the time for taking pics, but here's a few
* - Having said that, I doubt any of the men in the Sheffield regiment were under-equipped, when it came to cutlery
Thank you Jamesthere's a treasure already... so historically interesting, geographically important and generally speaking just cool.
