Your Oldest Knife?

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Spartan7

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Just want to see what yours guys old time knives are. Mine would have to be my Ka-Bar I got way back when i joined the millitary. Its seen 2 tours in combat. Its banged up bad, but its my baby.
 
My mother recently asked, "do you want your first knife?" She handed me a small, cheap Japanese (yes, it was made when cheap and Japanese were synonomous) sheath knife with a compass in the handle. It seems to have been stamped out of sheet metal, witn a stamped guard slipped on and small stag slabs pinned in place. I am 58 now, and she swears that it was given to me when I was four years old. I asked her if they only let me handle it when they were present. "Oh, no" she said, your dad let you carry it around all the time."
 
Oldest I own is a ca. 1895 stockman that was my great-great-grandfather's. It's still in decent shape, except for a decent sized chip out the scale. :)
 
My oldest knife is a Case Equal End Pen made in the late 20's I bought at an estate sale for $3 back in the early 90's, the knife I've owned the longest is a a toss up between a 194OT, Trapper, and an old 51OT, still have em both but they are currently retired, I carried both knives from 1976 till 1991.
 
I have a bunch of old pocketknives, all different manufacturers that I rescued off ebay. I have no idea on the ages of most of them. I just liked them. I do have some older scout pattern knives, and the can openers are usually telling as to how old they are.

But Schrades are my game, and I have a large handful of schrade cut co's, which would put them pre '48, I believe.

Glenn
 
My oldest is a HR Boker MOP from the mid 1850's. Its in excellent shape. I picked it up on E-Bay about 4 years ago for $15 because no one knew what it was (back when you could still find outstanding deals on antiques).
 
My Vicnox SAK Fisherman model - I have replaced the spring once and the toothpick twice. It was purchased in 1982 and has seen a lot of fishing as well as general use since. It has also cut a few fingers gladly not mine.
 
Well, mine would have to be flint arrowheads we find on the farm. Got 'em by the boxfull. It's safe to say some gotta be thousands of years old.

Can anyone beat that? :D

But, the answer you're probably looking for is a big I. Wilson shear steel butcher knife. It's in great condition and doesn't look that old, but from everything I can find on it, it was probably made in the mid to late 1750's.
 
well, I just sold my antique waki, purportedly 14th thru 16 century in age, but it was just a cut-down katana...

So now it would be my pair of 1909 Argentine Bolos or my Enfield bayo's...
 
My oldest knife is a lobster pattern pen knife that was made in St. Louis around 1920. It has inexpensive little perloid handles and isn't worth much. It's just cool to won a knife that old.
 
The oldest knife I have that I can definitively date would be my Buck 110 from 1965. I have a hunter that was my grandfathers that is older, but I am not sure how much.
 
My oldest is a 2 blade swell center made by Winchester in 1927 and its still in excellent working condition.
 
A Case Sodbuster (carbon steel) from 1971. It's been camping around the U.S. twice, skinned and butchered deer and small game, opened tin cans, skinned large and small wire, and cut splinters of metal and wood from my hands. I have a S.S. linerlock model from 1972 that has also been through the mill, but it doesn't have the nostalgic apeal of that first one.
 
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