Treasure at the bottom of the toolbox

T. Erdelyi

T. Erdelyi

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Went to an auction house the otherday and bid on and won a toolbox filled with stuff for $25, among the german needlenose, the machinist screwdrivers and other tools I found an LF&C Horn handled Barlow with Nickel Silver Bolsters, and a Union Knifeworks NYC Equal End Jack with Jigged Redbone Scales, both of these knives have got to be over 60+ years old.

These knives have broken a broken blade each,(which drives me crazy)
but they are in such nice condition that I have to use them.

They both are tight with no play and lots of snap, and the most amazing part was that they both were brought to a hairpoppin' edge in seconds on my bench stones.

I love old slipjoints, I've always carried at least 1 as part of my EDC's and the older ones always seemed better, I know to most of you guys these knives look like junk from a fleamarket or yardsale table, but these were quality knives of their time and probably treasured heirlooms.

The knives today lack personality and character that our grandfathers knives had, how many of you guys are gonna hand your Sebies down to your grand kids?

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Neato, its always very cool to find something cool in those old flea market boxes. The Union Moose is super cool.
 
BB, you called the Union knife a Moose, is that the pattern it was called, anything else you can tell me about it?
 
wow there some neat little blades, especially like the red bone handle....i'm getting a custom bowie with a red bone scale.
 
Sure, looking at the scale between the Landers and the Union , the Union looks to be about 4 inches shut. And looking at the remains of the other blade, I bet it was a spear point.

The Moose is a large equal ended jack that is sorta a veration on the standard Trapper. It can have either a spear/clip or clip/spey blade combination.

www.waresofthewildwest.com/mooremakerknives2.cfm .


Modern Moose :).
 
Hardly Junk!!! Great finds! As far as my Sebbie, I will definately leave mine to my family. Luckily I don't have any children yet so I have plenty of cuttin time left!!! :D
Matt
 
It seems like that snapped blade is ripe to be made into a coping...

What does the rest of it look like and where is it's brother?
 
I'm glad that you found something that you really like. I usually find a rusty pair of pliers...
:)
 
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