What's are the knives whit...

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...the most interesting history? I mean, i.e. the Barlow has an interesting history (President G. Washington, Mark Twain).
What are in your opinion the other traditional folders whit an interesting history, and why?
Ciao,
Alfredo
 
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The Bowie.
According to legend-
It was fashioned by a blacksmith at the request of Col. James Bowie after he had to fight a bear when his rifle malfunctioned. No other knife on the market at the time could be used to fight, pry, dig, chop, slash, and cut all with the same knife, so Jim Bowie had one made. The blade was long and wide with a sharpened clipped point, a brass blade catcher on the spine and a long full guard. The knife proved its worth at many fights, one of which was to be known as the Vidalia Sandbar Fight, where a shot and stabbed Bowie went on to kill all five of his attackers with his knife.
Bowie later fought at the battle of the Alamo, along with Davy Crockett and a band of Texans fighting for Texas' independance from Mexico. All of the Texans died in the battle. Bowie fought to the end, with a pistol in one hand and his famous knife in the other.
A more American story you couldn't find.
 
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They say the razor type blade with the opener thingy...the "one arm razor" came to be or popularized after the Civil War because there were a great more one armed guys at that time
 
The Toothpick or "Tickler" pattern always interested and perplexed me for some time. It's roots are heavily influenced by the French in most regards and reminiscent of the French laguiole knives.
 
don't know if it's a "type" of knife in the same way but i think that there were friction folders in the roman empire is pretty cool, saw one with a built in spoon once.
 
KYenglish said:
don't know if it's a "type" of knife in the same way but i think that there were friction folders in the roman empire is pretty cool, saw one with a built in spoon once.
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Since you mention the spoon,how 'bout the hobo..... from the era. I think it's great that Case still makes one.
 
The "Eisenhower" knife deserves a mention, even if the pattern named after him isn't the same that he famously gifted.
 
The Mercator has the number K55K. That means Kaufmann, 55th Street, Köln (Cologne). Kaufmann are the vendors that had a deal with the german defense department at that time (roundabout 1860) to get a pocket knife for the german colonial troops. The manufacturers made the knives, sold them to Kaufmann and they sold them to the german defense department.
There were several manufacturers around that built this pattern, but it was just sold as K55K. And Mercator is latin and means Kaufmann (vendorsman in english). The Kaufmann family had a cat in their family logo, so they let this being punched into the handle... and here come the mighty K55K Mercator folder :)
 
Bob W said:
The "Eisenhower" knife deserves a mention, even if the pattern named after him isn't the same that he famously gifted.
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OK, I'll bite. What pattern did Eisenhower give? I've read the story that he used to give pocket knives. According to Case, it was a 63 pattern, the one that they now have nicknamed the "Eisenhower".
 
According to documents at the Eisenhower Museum, President Eisenhower ordered boxes of Case knives from a dealer in Texas to be given away (some were engraved with dates and Ike's name). Those were model 6333.

He also owned two Case knives that were gifts to him, and are now in his Presidential Library and Museum. They are both model 6333.

There is also a documented instance of Ike giving away model 08263 knives, so the designation of that model as the "Eisenhower" is authentic.
During the late 1950’s, President Dwight D. Eisenhower arranged a three-day fishing trip to Quonset Point Naval Air Station in Rhode Island. He had five sailors convert a PT boat into a fishing vessel. At some point during the trip, the President gave each of the five sailors an 08263 Eisenhower pattern, handled in mother of pearl.
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The full story is a research article by Gary Moore reprinted at another knife enthusiast website. A google search will turn it up.
 
whetrock said:
The Toothpick or "Tickler" pattern always interested and perplexed me for some time. It's roots are heavily influenced by the French in most regards and reminiscent of the French laguiole knives.
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This is something I have long wondered. The toothpick is a child of the deep south. Like Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas. Well, with a heck of a lot of Louisiana being very French, it isn't a long jump of the imagination for the Laguiole pattern to have bled over into Texas to the west, and Mississippi to the east. Looking at a Toothpick and a laguiole side by side, the family resemblance is very striking.

Carl.
 
Bob W said:
According to documents at the Eisenhower Museum, President Eisenhower ordered boxes of Case knives from a dealer in Texas to be given away (some were engraved with dates and Ike's name). Those were model 6333.

He also owned two Case knives that were gifts to him, and are now in his Presidential Library and Museum. They are both model 6333.

There is also a documented instance of Ike giving away model 08263 knives, so the designation of that model as the "Eisenhower" is authentic.


The full story is a research article by Gary Moore reprinted at another knife enthusiast website. A google search will turn it up.
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Case model 6333

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Might have known a man raised in Kansas would be a stockman man.

THANKS!
 
Interesting stories!

Please tell me more about the relation Toothpick/Laguiole and the "Eishenower knife". I'm also interested in the Abe Lincoln Congress knife. If you had some articles or similar to point me, it would be great!
 
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