Photos Who has a knife as old as they are. Traditional only.

I have several pocketknives pre-dating me (one shown above) but the black handled TL29 is the first one I have a clear recollection of using. My Dad guided me in cutting down a piece of wood into a neckerchief slide when I was a youngster (about 8 or 9). He bored a hole in the wood and I cut it into shape and added ear holes, we used a piece of TinkerToy to make the nose, along with some Plasticwood. I painted it black, he added the details. I still have it and the neckerchief along with my only picture as a Cub Scout and I am wearing the neckerchief slide. I extracted myself from the pack picture taken at the Moose Lodge in 1964 (looks like I had a growth spurt that year!). The knife is a WW-II - Korea era Camillus that my Dad obtained during his Army service and held on to. OH

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Old Hunter said:
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I have several pocketknives pre-dating me (one shown above) but the black handled TL29 is the first one I have a clear recollection of using. My Dad guided me in cutting down a piece of wood into a neckerchief slide when I was a youngster (about 8 or 9). He bored a hole in the wood and I cut it into shape and added ear holes, we used a piece of TinkerToy to make the nose, along with some Plasticwood. I painted it black, he added the details. I still have it and the neckerchief along with my only picture as a Cub Scout and I am wearing the neckerchief slide. I extracted myself from the pack picture taken at the Moose Lodge in 1964 (looks like I had a growth spurt that year!). The knife is a WW-II - Korea era Camillus that my Dad obtained during his Army service and held on to. OH

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They tried to get me into the scouts when I was a kid and later as a teen but I had access to a massive camp, like 5,10 thousand acres. It used to belong to the Rockefellers till the guy my Old Man died with in the plane crash actually 10/25/75 was the date it’ll be 49 years. But the Old Man introduced me to knives and To moms dismay, every single dangerous thing out there, ( guns, motorcycles and alcohol, explosives not all at once though).

He taught me to hunt, track, trap, survive in the wilderness. There was nothing they did that I wasn’t doing on my own. Now my younger brother joined as a cub scout and left just before eagle.

Great organization for those who don’t have the access or mentors to teach them. I used to put together a pack then me and the Old Man would hike into the deep woods for a week. Back then I carried a generic scout knife much like this one and a fixed blade buck 102.
 
I was very lucky to have my Dad and my Uncle as mentors (both had been Scouts and Soldiers) and I got to be a Scout as well - a home run from my perspective. Many of those skills served me well in my 30+ year career as an Army Guardsman and life long hunter. Probably added to what they taught me from rubbing elbows with my fellow Soldiers and from my own experiences. OH
 
I have a Case 3220 Peanut from the 1950-'64 era. It has a pattern stamp, which Case didn't do until 1950 and later. It might be as old, or a little older than me, if it was made prior to '61. Admittedly, this one looked like it's probably been a safe queen its entire existence, as it didn't show any signs of use when I acquired it. Still looks essentially pristine, aside from a little shrinkage of the synthetic handle covers in 'yellow composition', prior to Case's use of Delrin first starting in 1967.
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And pictured below is one my Dad showed to me when I was maybe 10 years old or younger in the late '60s or early '70s, and he gave it to me years later. By the pocket wear and the patina, It looked as old then as it does today. I've assumed he probably had it as far back as the 1950s, at least. No maker's marks or any other stampings, so I've never known its history or origins. Dad had a couple others of similar pattern & style, in what I assume were celluloid covers, very colorful. In the years since he first showed them to me, the other two had apparently 'gone away'. I seem to recall seeing more rust on those two, and have assumed they might've been victims to celluloid outgassing. I don't know, but he probably tossed them out at some point. He passed away almost 6 years ago, and we still haven't sorted through all his things. I wonder if he just tucked them away somewhere.
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Obsessed with Edges said:
I have a Case 3220 Peanut from the 1950-'64 era. It has a pattern stamp, which Case didn't do until 1950 and later. It might be as old, or a little older than me, if it was made prior to '61. Admittedly, this one looked like it's probably been a safe queen its entire existence, as it didn't show any signs of use when I acquired it. Still looks essentially pristine, aside from a little shrinkage of the synthetic handle covers in 'yellow composition', prior to Case's use of Delrin first starting in 1967.
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And the one pictured below is one my Dad showed to me when I was maybe 10 years old or younger in the late '60s or early '70s, and he gave it to me years later. By the pocket wear and the patina, It looked as old then as it does today. I've assumed he probably had it as far back as the 1950s, at least. No maker's marks or any other stampings, so I've never known its history or origins. Dad had a couple others of similar pattern & style, in what I assume were celluloid covers, very colorful. In the years since he first showed them to me, the other two had apparently 'gone away'. I seem to recall seeing more rust on those two, and have assumed they might've been victims to celluloid outgassing. I don't know, but he probably tossed them out at some point. He passed away almost 6 years ago, and we still haven't sorted through all his things. I wonder if he just tucked them away somewhere.
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Thanks for that, great story and info to go with the pics. I always loved the sharing of info that’s evident in the traditional crowd.
 
Chui said:
........oh, yes...........and my joints need oiling too

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I had one of those, kept it in my work tool box as a loaner. It was a tough little bugger.

Eventually I gave it to a kid who worked for me who never had or carried one before. He always had mine so I taught him how to approximate a good edge. He was still carryin it when I left 2 years later. I remember once a week of usin it went by he was a convert and swore never to be without a pocket knife again.
 
I've got plenty that are older than me and plenty that I bought new, but I don't think I have a single knife that I know for a fact was made the same year as me.

I need an older standard black example for my Buck 305 collection, and I think it will have to be one from my birth year.
 
T. Erdelyi said:
Thanks for that, great story and info to go with the pics. I always loved the sharing of info that’s evident in the traditional crowd.
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The 3220 Peanut occasionally reminds me of part of my own early history in another, somewhat ironic, way. It hadn't occurred to me until some time after I bought that knife. Purely coincidental, but the pattern number '3220' actually matches the street address number of the first house I ever lived in after I was born.
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T. Erdelyi said:
I had one of those, kept it in my work tool box as a loaner. It was a tough little bugger.

Eventually I gave it to a kid who worked for me who never had or carried one before. He always had mine so I taught him how to approximate a good edge. He was still carryin it when I left 2 years later. I remember once a week of usin it went by he was a convert and swore never to be without a pocket knife again.
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- great story :thumbsup:
 
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