Traditionals and Trinkets.

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WinchesteRalox

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you know that one thing you carry around in your pocket just to have it? maybe it’s a good luck charm, a token, coin, game piece, or just because of the memories involved. Whatever it it post it here with a traditional knife. My case sodbuster Jr. with the 30.06 shell from my grandfathers 21 gun salute (WW2 Navy vet) hasn’t left my pocket since his funeral.
 
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Here's a 1944 Franc my grandfather brought back from the war ( presumably acquired while he ran a small bar in France with his brother ) and a little Imperial slipjoint GT thoughtfully gifted me.
The pair hangs around my neck at all times, and the knife itself while basically a trinket in it's own right is functional and does get used once in a while.

I love carbon steel slipjoints and with the imperial I've always got one on me.

The coin may or may not be be lucky.
My grandfather took a very very lucky narrow miss through his helmet somewhere in france, and I figure if this somewhat fragile aluminum french coin survived maybe it's also lucky. ( He drove a tank with the US ARMY 4th armoured, so I don't know how it happened )
Ive worn a fair amount of Band-Aids as long as I've had this on me, but have yet to need stitches when I very easily could have so who knows, it could actually be working :rolleyes::rolleyes:
 
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Hickory n steel said:

Here's a 1944 Franc my grandfather brought back from the war ( presumably acquired while he ran a small bar in France with his brother ) and a little Imperial slipjoint GT thoughtfully gifted me.
The pair hangs around my neck at all times, and the knife itself while basically a trinket in it's own right is functional and does get used once in a while.

I love carbon steel slipjoints and with the imperial I've always got one on me.

The coin may or may not be be lucky.
My grandfather took a very very lucky narrow miss through his helmet somewhere in france, and I figure if this somewhat fragile aluminum french coin survived maybe it's also lucky. ( He drove a tank with the US ARMY 4th armoured, so I don't know how it happened )
Ive worn a fair amount of Band-Aids as long as I've had this on me, but have yet to need stitches when I very easily could have so who knows, it could actually be working :rolleyes::rolleyes:
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The coin pattern your Grand Pa took back lasted 4 years only by the self-called "French State", collaborating with nazis. It was soon replaced after June 6th by a more legitimate coin, this time showing again the good old "République Française ", with the traditional motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" instead of collaborationist's "Work, Family, Homeland".

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The 1 and 2 Francs alu coins lasted till 1960, when the New Franc replaced it (1 New Fr = 100 Frs).
In 1958 5 Frs would buy you one of these toffees by the next grocery!:rolleyes:
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This will probably turn into a double post somehow.
Jolipapa Jolipapa , was the double axe on the Vichy(?) coin meant to hark back to a Frankish weapon? The axe in a fasces was single-bitted, I think.
 
scrteened porch said:
This will probably turn into a double post somehow.
Jolipapa Jolipapa , was the double axe on the Vichy(?) coin meant to hark back to a Frankish weapon? The axe in a fasces was single-bitted, I think.
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Exactly, it was a direct reference to the francisca the Frankish war axe and to the Italian fasces as well, but, in fact it is a labrys, the francisca being single-bitted as you said.
I suppose it had to be double-bitted as the fasces was also a napoleonian and republican emblem, refering to the Roman republic.
There were lots of references to the ancient Gall and Frankish (understand Germanic. Remember Charlemagne ruled a large part of Europe, uniting France, Germany and Italy).
Every school boy knew the history of the vase of Soissons ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vase_of_Soissons ) :D:eek:
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Jolipapa said:
The coin pattern your Grand Pa took back lasted 4 years only by the self-called "French State", collaborating with nazis. It was soon replaced after June 6th by a more legitimate coin, this time showing again the good old "République Française ", with the traditional motto "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" instead of collaborationist's "Work, Family, Homeland".

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The 1 and 2 Francs alu coins lasted till 1960, when the New Franc replaced it (1 New Fr = 100 Frs).
In 1958 5 Frs would buy you one of these toffees by the next grocery!:rolleyes:
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Cool, thanks for the interesting history.

There's aslo a reichspfennining coin which I believe was issued during the germam occupation of Poland, but due to a certain symbol on the coin it stays at home in the trinket box.
 
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Is this acceptable? An A. Wright & Son buffalo horn lambsfoot with a Star Trek Christmas tree ornament.
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You carry that in your pocket...... only joking. Its a cool ornament, but I was kind of going for stuff that people carry with them. And that’s a nice lambs foot to.
 
5K Qs said:
Is this acceptable? An A. Wright & Son buffalo horn lambsfoot with a Star Trek Christmas tree ornament.
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That is so acceptable that it should almost be a requirement ;):D

WinchesteRalox said:
but I was kind of going for stuff that people carry with them.
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I think GT wears cargo pants and carries like 6 or 8 pocket knives on him per day so he probably has had the Enterprise in there a time or two :)
 
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I usually have this spinner with me along with a knife. It’s the Lodestar from Folkland, solid brass, nice heavy feel to it. With my job having something to “fidget” with is invaluable and I can’t always have the knife out : )
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WinchesteRalox said:
You carry that in your pocket...... only joking. Its a cool ornament, but I was kind of going for stuff that people carry with them. And that’s a nice lambs foot to.
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Oops! I apologize for not reading the pocket-carry requirement on the trinket. :(

veitsi_poika said:
That is so acceptable that it should almost be a requirement ;):D

I think GT wears cargo pants and carries like 6 or 8 pocket knives on him per day so he probably has had the Enterprise in there a time or two :)
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Thanks for your enthusiastic support! :) I do carry quite a few knives at any given time, but I've never actually pocketed any of those Star Trek ornaments. :D

I'll try different trinkets:
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5K Qs said:
Oops! I apologize for not reading the pocket-carry requirement on the trinket. :(


Thanks for your enthusiastic support! :) I do carry quite a few knives at any given time, but I've never actually pocketed any of those Star Trek ornaments. :D

I'll try different trinkets:
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Don’t worry about it. You have now inspired me to start a traditional knives and Christmas tree ornament thread next December! Maybe... That’s a beautiful Barlow to.
 
5K Qs said:
Oops! I apologize for not reading the pocket-carry requirement on the trinket. :(


Thanks for your enthusiastic support! :) I do carry quite a few knives at any given time, but I've never actually pocketed any of those Star Trek ornaments. :D

I'll try different trinkets:
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You just reminded me that my most recent flat penny permanently lives in my wallet.
No particular reason, I just forgot to take it out when I got it and decided to leave it in there.
These are the perfect trinket since they're so thin, and only cost 50¢.
 
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