What's the oldest knife you own?

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Mine is my Uncle's old Western Cutlery official Boy Scout knife. It is a fixed blade with leather washer handle, carbon steel blade that holds an edge forever. It's stamped with the BSA logo. My Uncle carried it so much when he had it he wore out the sheath so my Grandfather had an Indian friend of his make a sheath for it. The knife is about 50 yrs old and the sheath about 35 yrs old. It is my primary hunting and fishing blade-I have helped my Grandfather skin deer with it and I use it to clean fish. It looks used but not abused-if my Grandfather taught my anything, it's how to take care of a knife.
 
I have a Gerber (forget the model, but has a 3" blade, sort of metal handle, hidden tang, 3/32" thick (if I recall) flat ground to spine) that is still with me and as good or better than most of the more contemporary (and custom) utility fixed blades I own... Also a Buck 110, both from the early 1970's!
 
I am fortunate enough to have a small 2-bladed slip-joint pocket knife that my Grandfather carried with him always. It probably cost less than $1 new, but I like it. Wild guess: it's probably from the 1930's.
 
Japanese tanto... Shinto or Shin Shinto period. (16th-19th century)
Can't be sure exactly where within that range it falls, but that's the best information available.
 
My oldest knife belonged to my uncle.Its a John Primble congress,about 3 inches closed.Blades are worn down to almost nothing and the bone handles are worn smooth.Im guessing its from sometime in the 1940's.This is the pocketknife he always carried.He told me once before he died that he had carried it for close to 50 yrs.
 
Originally posted by matthew rapaport
I have a Gerber (forget the model, but has a 3" blade, sort of metal handle, hidden tang, 3/32" thick (if I recall) flat ground to spine).
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Hi Matthew,

The Gerber you speak of I believe is the "Shorty" model. They are very popular with many expierenced woodsmen.

The oldest piece of cutlery I own is a heavy "meat chopper" style Wade & Butcher straight razor, that dates to the 1870-80's. Barring that, it wold be a Collins short machete with a 1918 production date.

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Originally posted by Lurker
I am fortunate enough to have a small 2-bladed slip-joint pocket knife that my Grandfather carried with him always. It probably cost less than $1 new, but I like it. Wild guess: it's probably from the 1930's.
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Same here. My Dad kept it locked away. I've cleaned it up a bit. It was a working knife, heavily resharpened in the old days.
 
I've got a W.R. Case and Sons Pearl Toenail (8250) that was made around 1910 and it's near mint. Have a few others about the same age but they're not as nice.
Perry (Knifekid)
 
My oldest knife is an old "I Wilson" butcher knife from the fur trade era.Still use it to cut the Sunday roast,takes a great edge.
 
I have a old Case that my Grandpa owned. . .

It was given to me when I was 9 (when my Grandma passed). He passed when my Mom was 17 (I wasn't born yet). My Mom said that she was 7 - 8 when he bought it. . .

So. . .it's at least 52 - 53 years old as a minimum. . .
 
I'd have to look up some dates on some of them (pre 18th) but the one that I can think of right now is an Argentian Sword Bayonet (big a** as brandon would put it:)) dated 1909
 
One is a John Holler 5 blade senator, with the blades sharpened half away and a chunk taken out of the wood of one scale, but good springs and it still takes and edge. The second is an ivory-handled sheepfoot folder from the 1860's, unused as far as I can tell.
 
The oldest knife I own is what was called an "Alberta Knife" made from local Chalcedony stone, dated by the Museum of The Rockies at 11,500 years or so ago. I found it in a hayfield that was plowed a mile from my house. The handle was rotted off of course but the blade is in fine shape!
 
The two oldest knives I own have been in my possesion for 35 years. One is a single blade slipjoint given to me by a little girl (9, I was 7). The other is a fixed blade camp knife that my mother bought for me at Fort Deposit, Alabama.
 
Well, I have a Union Cutlery Elephant Toenail with the Tidiote Stamp made between 1909 and 1911. Also have a Platts and Sons Sunfish made between 1896 and 1897.
Greg
 
I have a couple of Marble's, both the Canoe model. I think they were made somewhere around 1900 or so.
 
The oldest knife that I have is a Buck 110 that I bought myself just a couple of years after in was first released. Sometime in late 1965 or early 1966 as I recall.
 
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