Traditional Gentlemen's Knives

[Jack Black]

 

[dantzk8]

Does a gentleman farmer knife count ?



Just kidding.

Dan.

 

[Jack Black]

Ivory Needham Penknife.

 

[black mamba]

Maybe the most ubiquitous Gent's Knife of them all . . . Victorinox Cadet.

 

[beezwax]

beezwax I'm envious of those Seal mitts kind of Polar Gentry

Thanks Will! I know you can appreciate them, as well as the humor I intended with that post. To state plainly here, because I know tone doesn't always translate well online, I'm not a fur trapper or trader. Just joking about life in the North. The mitts were made for me by a friend who lives in a coastal village here, where harvesting marine mammals and subsistence lifestyle still exists.

I don't believe I own any vintage pen knives, but as atonement for my derailment of this thread I can offer these modern equivalents. A couple of classic Swiss Army Classics:

I've gussied them both up with some aftermarket covers, scalloped copper on the left and titanium on the right. The Swiss Cross in the titanium covers has a glow-in-the-dark insert.

And in keeping with my "Alaskan" Gentleman's Knife theme I have replaced the toothpick on my titanium Classic with a "Firefly" firesteel, a tiny little fire starter:

I've tried it and it works. But obviously if I ever find myself having to start a fire with a ferro rod the size of a SAK toothpick then MULTIPLE things have gone wrong. That would be the backup to the backup to my backup plan. Maybe all the matches and butane lighters were lost in the bear attack from my previous post lol.

 

[Jolipapa]

More than one Gentleman or his Lady might have something like this secreted about their person.
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Amazing to see how the same thing gets different name depending where you are. That kind of daggers (less the Damas work) were a specialty in Chatellerault, known as "prostitute daggers"
They sometime ended into a gentleman...

 

[PeterDE]

Amazing to see how the same thing gets different name depending where you are. That kind of daggers (less the Damas work) were a specialty in Chatellerault, known as "prostitute daggers"
They sometime ended into a gentleman...

I would venture to say if the dagger ended up in him, he was no gentleman!

 

[B1GSHOT]

Maybe the most ubiquitous Gent's Knife of them all . . . Victorinox Cadet.

The Swiss Army knife is the inheritor of the title for sure. Not many other current knives come with nail files.

 

[mbkr]

Super thin Sheffield made pen knife I received in Johnnythefox 's GAW. Definitely won't ruin the line of a good suit. I don't even own a bad suit, much less a good one
Approx. 3 3/8" (86mm) closed length


Approx. 1/8" (3mm) thick

 

[davemonkey]

Here is a celluloid Hibbard Spencer and Bartlett that has a gentlemanly feel. Second knife is more of a novelty at barely 1" closed.

 

[beezwax]

Here's one that belongs in this thread. Plenty of beautiful penknives but nobody has shared an "Office Knife" yet. This isn't a vintage example, but is a very nice modern repro by Schatt&Morgan with creamy mammoth ivory covers.

The little bit that I've read about "Office" knives gives me to understand that this is really just a senator penknife despite the laser etching. It's got the small coping/sheepsfoot secondary instead of the traditional "ink eraser" or small spey blades found on vintage "Office" knives. I noticed a nice ink eraser blade on one of the knives that tongueriver shared earlier.

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[B1GSHOT]

Here's an interesting pocket knife I got today. It's a Swedish advertising knife. Kungsholm Cruise was the ship that sailed from the United States to Gothenburg Sweden in the 1920s. My grandparents and their family, including my dad made a trip to Sweden by ship around that time. They may have sailed on this very ship!

 

[Jack Black]

How about this gent's cigar tool?

 

[Onebigbill]

 

[Jack Black]

 

[Prester John]

How about this gent's cigar tool?

V-cut is the best. Beats the guillotine or the punch. Nice knife!

 

[Jack Black]

V-cut is the best. Beats the guillotine or the punch. Nice knife!

Thanks Vince, that's good to know

 

[tongueriver]

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[tongueriver]

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[Jack Black]

I don't have many Ulsters, but one of them is most definitely a Gent's Knife