What's the best knife you've ever found?

Never found any but I have lost a nice Benchmade before in the mountains. I actualy hope some hiker or biker found it and was able to put it to good use instead of it being wasted.
 
I found a nice Case peanut under the couch cushions in my home. I also found a military machete with sheath in the woods as a kid. It is marked US and 1945. Still have both.

The only ones I've lost are any knife I've loaned to my Father-in-law. Fortunately I have only "loaned" him SAK Classics.
 
Victorinox, like new.

Found in the middle of a volcanic rock red-gravel road in the high Cascades between the towns of Bend and Sisters in the fall many years ago during long bicycle ride.

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A Buck 110 on a hiking trip, a small Schrade OT while fishing and a Hen and Rooster stilletto in a field near a freeway Rest Stop.
 
My favourite found knife was PREMIER BRAND premium stock knife. Field dressed my first deer with it. I have found various SAK's overr the years. I have a couple of nice henckels that I took from the people that were trying to stick them in my ribs. (I used to work in dive bars)
 
I founda nice Wenger SAK in my Scout meeting room, but I think it's topped by the Kershaw Chive I found on the floor at a concert.
 
I found a Cattaragus 225Q while deer hunting in the mountains of Utah in the late '60's. The leather handle was mostly gone but the blade and tang were not rusted? I rehandled it with wood, made a leather sheath out of an old cowboy boot top, and still have it.
 
Found a Schrade OT stockman years ago under a wall tent at a Boy Scout camp. Cleaned out a bit of rust, works great and the blades have a nice patina on them.
 
I found a Barlow made in the USA in the back seat of my then girl friends 67 Buick LeSabre.....we were doing the 2 backed beast and my hand went down between the seat cushions when I was doing some pushin......I felt something..curious I pulled it out...oh wow man a knife...needless to say the GF was getting upset because I was checking out the knife and not her...so I got bizzy again....still got the little Barlow.....carried it for yrs....everytime I pull it out of my desk drawer and look at it.....it brings back the care free days of my youth! ;)
 
Camilus EDC Talonite: Found it after a year of tearing my truck. car, and house apart repeatedly. I also searched the internet repeatedly trying to locate a replacement. Then last fall it appeared on the round behind the bushes at the front of the house when I was blowing the leaves into the yard. Rinsed it off in the sink and it was as good as new.
 
I keep finding knives laying in the middle of the logging roads I hunt. My guess is guys set them on their cars and drive away. Here is a partial list: Case Bird and Fish knife, German Solengin fixed blade with fully engraved picture of a WWII pilot (german, both sides covered), Shrade Deerslayer, Kershaw Filet knife, several slip knives (mostly Camilus), Buck lock back (smaller than a 110), Gerber lock back, Marbel Ideal (1940-50's), Gerber multi-tool, Leatherman's multi-tool, and probably other's. The german knife hase hand carved bone handles.
Ron Athay
 
Found a Puma "Master" new/mint still in its original pasteboard box,on top of a wall board in a barn I was tearing down. Had one of those old "click-clack" price sticker guns stickers still on it...said $9.98!!!!! so I guess it had been up there a LONG time!!
 
I think that I've told this before, but anyways, my in-laws had a friend who managed a movie theater. All the knives found on the floor were put in the lost and found for a couple weeks. After that, he brought them home and gave them to my brother-in-law who was a kid at the time. Recently, my brother-in-law gave the entire box of knives to my son. A lot of junk, but a few nice slippies.
 
I found a Frontier trapper with feedstore advertising in a field that I rock hunt. I found it about 2001 and the date on the handle said 1982, but it couldnt have laid there 19 years as it was in too good a shape, it was rusted and blades pitted a bit but cleaned-up fairly good. Handles and bolsters real-good.
 
can't say it was Found, exactly.. a guy gave me a Case 6 dot (1974) Big Coke Bottle knife cause it had rust spots on the blade.

seriously, he pitched it in the trash in front of me.. and i squealed..

he said 'it's RUSTY' like I would of course agree the only thing to do with a rusty knife was pitch it.

'take it if you want it, it's RUSTY'..

i've turned down 100$ for it once and 50$ for it 20 times.. and it ain't for sale.. :) or rusty....
 
From my first EDC and many others over decades, I have never lost or found a knife. However, several I have given away were almost too quickly lost by their recipients. Among those was a Kamp King that I had given to a girl friend (non-romantic) as she was about to leave town. Thirty years later I found out she had lost it within days of her departure. I regreted to learn that, as the modest little scout knife had been with me since age 12, with the sentimental value that accumulated over the 15 years I had it. Shortly after, though, a friend picked up at a yard sale a box of cheap scout knives in various degrees of condition. Among them was a Kamp King, just like mine, in almost perfect shape. He sold it to me for one dollar, probably what I paid for my original. It now rides in my car glove box.

I'm not superstitious, or I would get the feeling all this was meant to be. But since I feel that way, I must be superstitious, after all (admitted, of course, in strictest confidence.)
 
Earlier this year as I was hobbling around the neighborhood I found the shoes I will soon be married in along with a stag handled Grohmann Yahtsman. Great score!
 
Several years ago, lost my Super Tinker on a beach hike in CA. It was the only knife I'd brought, so I was a little bummed. Very next day, found a nearly new Vic Explorer at my campsite. I still EDC that knife...it's in my pocket right now.
 
I found a benchmade mini auto stryker at my college parking lot that was in almost perfect condition. I gave it to my uncle in Oregon because I cant carry it around here. I also found a gerber lst in my aunts back yard.
 
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