WWI British & Commonwealth Knives

Here are two more circa WW1 knifes The first is the Admiralty Pattern 301. This pattern saw use by the Royal Navy during WW1. The other is a knife is saimilar to those included in gift boxes to the troops during WWI. That's it for WWI....for now.

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Great knives as always s-k!

Yeah, you Brits have had a way with that stag, thats for sure!:thumbup:
 
Interesting that the Admiralty Pattern 301 had the marlinspike on the same end as the main blade. The other knives had the marlinspike on the opposite end. There must have been some increased function in that for the Navy.

Also, on that same knife, the main blade looks to my eyes like a large coping blade, not a wharncliff or sheepsfoot, as I might have expected. I can understand why the wharncliff might have been dangerous on the rocking seas, but in the USA the sheepsfoot is much more commonly seen as a large blade. It's less common to see a large coping blade. This might be the largest I've seen. Are coping blades fairly common in the UK?
 
smiling-knife said:
Thanks very much for the compliment. Are you based in the UK? You're welcome to drop by. Please give me a few days notice though to tidy-up the place :eek::D
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Actually I'm in Memphis Tennessee. Business gets me to the UK occasionally. I've been to Birmingham, Stratford upon Avon, Leeds and several other places. Chances of me getting there are pretty slim though, so you don't have to worry about cleaning up:D:D. Just don't lose any of those beautiful knives in the mess!!
 
RobbW said:
Also, on that same knife, the main blade looks to my eyes like a large coping blade, not a wharncliff or sheepsfoot, as I might have expected. I can understand why the wharncliff might have been dangerous on the rocking seas, but in the USA the sheepsfoot is much more commonly seen as a large blade. It's less common to see a large coping blade. This might be the largest I've seen. Are coping blades fairly common in the UK?
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Thanks very much for the response RobbW. The specification for the pattern was "best cast-steel hand-forged sheep foot blade". Sheepsfoot and Lambsfoot are very traditional terms for Sheffield blades. The Coping blade is commonly associated with the whittler pattern, but I don't know the origin or how exactly it differs from the above. I hope this helps.
 
OK, this ones stretching it a bit, but I do like this thread! It's a well worn Ulster Sea Scout knife. It'd be interesting to know how much rope this one cut! So, in keeping with the theme of the thread, they were in uniform, and we were a colony at one time:D:D:D

Eric
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I have a knife of a similar style to these made by PS&C Works, Nizamabad, India. I believe they made knives for the British Army.

Does anyone else have one of these or know of them?
 
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