Traditional knives with traditional/vintage camping gear

[A.L.]

Finnish vintage gas mask bag

 

[A.L.]

Veshmeshok with Condor Hudson Bay

 

[Jack Black]

Veshmeshok with Condor Hudson Bay

Great pic I used to buy those pipe screens for my dad as a kid. I have sent them to a few members, and still have a couple I think. I have a Condor Hudson Bay too, but no pipe!

 

[Jack Black]

Finnish vintage gas mask bag

That's a nice one I've still got a couple, Polish, and French I think, but as a kid, I almost always had my British gas-mask bag with me. It was so old it came with an anti mustard gas kit! I carried my sandwiches in it when I first started work, but don't have it anymore unfortunately

 

[Jack Black]

Tied to one of the side-rings of my gas-mask bag, I would carry the aluminium camping kettle my grandmother gave me when I was 6 or 7. My grandparents were keen campers, and some of that soot and muck is undoubtedly older than I am!



I haven't used it for about 18 years, but that old kettle sure has had some use in the past. Here it is in 1991

 

[315]

The knife is older than I am, not sure about the compass. My old Boy Scout compass is gone, not sure what happened to it. But this one still points North!

 

[Jack Black]

The knife is older than I am, not sure about the compass. My old Boy Scout compass is gone, not sure what happened to it. But this one still points North!

Very cool combination

 

[315]

Grandad wasn’t a camper by definition. He would camp out if he was fishing or hunting, but usually because it was more convenient, not that he wanted to. Later in life he had a couple of vans he had set up with a bed in the back. Wether it be he was traveling cross country, or hunting and fishing. If he got tired, he slept. (Nowadays they have a fancy word called “overlanding”). One common item he always carried was a small hatchet or axe. Here is one I can remember him having back into at least the 70’s, along with his trusty Western he carried since WWII.

 

[315]

The old Schrade Walden was my first fixed blade knife my Dad gave me sometime back in the 70’s I think. The Western is Dad’s, purchased at a hardware store about 65 years ago. Both have been on many camping trips, mostly when I was in Scouts. I’d like to tell you the two burner Coleman stove is what we also took with us, but nope. Sometime in the late 80’s or early 90’s my older brother was on a camping trip in the Boundary Waters in Northern Minnesota. He and his buddy were out on a lake canoeing around. He had Dad’s two burner stove and a lantern with him. When they approached camp there was a black bear in camp, so he abandoned everything and paddled back to the car some 5 hours away. I’d like to think the stove and lantern are still there, slowly becoming rusted relics. But I’m sure somebody eventually realized they were left and removed them. Either way, I still use and love these old Coleman stoves.