Thomas Jefferson's Knife

[supratentorial]

Searching the Smithsonian website also brings up a lot of nice photos.

Here's one of the Case machete that was part of the survival rucksack carried aboard Apollo 15 in July/August 1971.

 

[thatotherguy]

As a Latin teacher, I've always gotten a kick out of this Roman multitool from nearly two thousand years ago:

http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opac/search/cataloguedetail.html?&priref=70534

Don't ya find it a wee bit odd that the knife blade is all but deteriorated in some pictures while in other pics it looks brand new? Also the fact that it's still shiny? And that it's all still there? Do we have a "skeptical" smiley?
Cool Jefferson knife. It's kinda cool that you can still carry a tool with more or less the same tools that Thomas Jefferson had on his own knife. :thumbup:
Also, it would be a bit ironic if the knife came from Sheffield, what with the Revolution just being over and all.

 

[jackknife]

Don't ya find it a wee bit odd that the knife blade is all but deteriorated in some pictures while in other pics it looks brand new? Also the fact that it's still shiny? And that it's all still there? Do we have a "skeptical" smiley?
Cool Jefferson knife. It's kinda cool that you can still carry a tool with more or less the same tools that Thomas Jefferson had on his own knife. :thumbup:
Also, it would be a bit ironic if the knife came from Sheffield, what with the Revolution just being over and all.

I would imagine that the probability of the Jefferson knie coming from England was very high. It looks like the fine work that Sheffield did with the multiple blades of different uses. The kind of gentlemans knife that Sheffield was always good at a making. I may be wrong, but I don't think that in that time period, American knife makers had gotten to that point to making SAK like pocket knives.

Carl.

 

[thatotherguy]

it could very well be from Sheffield, they wre touted as some of the best at that time and patterns like that were being made. I was just sayin' that it would be a little ironic
The old Sheffields were fine knives.