Your Oldest Knife?

My oldest pocket knife that I can accurately determine is a small W.Congreve single bladed jack about 1-3/4" long folded with a matchstriker nail mark,blade marked,"silver steel",stag scales with birdseye rivets,and a small piece of bone used as a blade stop.Dates to the 1830's-1840's.I also have a G.Woodhead folder with stag scales in a pruning pattern,a nice I-XL three blade swell center with ivory scales and a shield with initials and the date 1870 on it.Several I-XL folding dirks pre-1900 and a gorgeous Northfield folding hunter in near mint condition.
My oldest fixed blade knife is a Persian Jambiya with a carved ivory handle,gold etching,and Damascus double edged ribbed blade with wooden sheath covered in lizard(snake)skin with raised designs,and an ivory handled Damascus companion dagger.I had it dated by a professor at Harvard University some years ago as being somewhere between 1630 and 1680.I also have a short sword (cutlass)that was tentatively dated(but not confirmed as yet)to have been made around the time of the American Revolution.
I only wish that these pieces could talk!Imagine the stories they might relate!
 
The oldest I own is a WWII bayonet for a Japanese model 99, the oldest that I have used is a Victorinox Tinker (now retired) that was with me in Viet Nam.
 
A strait blade Western,Boulder Colorado. My father bought it new in 1958 and gave it to me in 1970.Tough knife that has been used a whole bunch and still keeps going.Soon to be my sons as it should be.
 
She is a sheath knife, and is an awsome little 1850's~1860's coffin handled, full tang construction, doulble edged Dirk. Made with Elephant Ivory and dark Ebony. Has a beautiful hand cut brass guard that has a~sort~of clover leaf design. Blade is 4 7/8 inches long and is nearly 9 inches overall. Made by "Mansgn" of Sheffield, England. I do not know exactly what kind of steel the knife is made out of, but a guess is a high quality tool steel. This puppy is hair~poppin` wicked sharp on either of it's two edges!

Cheers~
 
kamkazmoto said:
The oldest I own is a WWII bayonet for a Japanese model 99, the oldest that I have used is a Victorinox Tinker (now retired) that was with me in Viet Nam.
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Hey There 'kamkazmoto',
How old is the Vic. Tinker exactly?
 
The oldest I have is a Lee Metford bayonet from the 1880's

The oldest knife I have that was produced during my lifetime is a Sears 3 blade stockman, carbon steel blades and white delrin scales. My dad got it for me when I was about 15 to replace the cheap pakistani folder I lost when he capsized the boat we were fishing in. It would be about 23 years old.


Drew
 
The oldest I have is a wenger sak that belonged to my dad. Knife is about 50+ years old. Has a metal shield, pinned on scales and has the old type can opener and heavy blades and is marked "wengerinox" (when wenger was in close competition with victorinox and added "inox"=stainless to the name). The knife is better qaulity then the ones either maker make these days.
 
I have a kukri from the mid 1800s; a Swedish bayonet marked 1918.
An old gent folder with gold plated scales with a chipped blade and an old, thick corkscrew. It was my father's, need to get it ID'd one day.
 
My SAK, I got it from my father when I was 12 or so . (1981)
(Still have it!)

Ted
 
rev_jch said:
The oldest I have is a wenger sak that belonged to my dad. Knife is about 50+ years old. Has a metal shield, pinned on scales and has the old type bottle opener and heavy blades and is marked "wengerinox" (when wenger was in close competition with victorinox and added "inox"=stainless to the name). The knife is better qaulity then the ones either maker make these days.
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I just read about these knives several months ago in a recent issue of 'Knife World'. That knife's value is increasing and the collectability is has increased quite a bit according to the article... ;)

.. Are you still useing it or is it now in collection mode?
 
sunnyd,
its been retired in my collection for the past 17 years or so. My Dad gave it to me when I was in high school and I used it a very short time. Then cleaned it up, put it in the collection, its been there ever since. If I remember correctly I believe the shield has three heads and, or a squirrel or something on it. I did speak to wenger in switzerland about it once, been almost two years ago.
 
.. That is great! Sounds like you have got one of the few really rare ones they put out!.. Not many transitional SAKS around... And the fact that it was you Father's just makes it that much more special for sure..

Thanks for all the information. Great Thread 2 B Sure :D

God Bless You and All Yours,

SD~
 
I have a Camillus USAF survival knife that I swapped for a can of Australian beer (Victoria Bitter) with the loadmaster of a Chinook helicopter at Long Binh airbase (South Vietnam) in January 1968.

That "loadie" will be pleased to know that I carried that knife on my LBE until I retired from the Army in 1988, and still carry it as a camp knife today.

It's done every job you could ask of a knife, and some you don't want to know about in polite company.

As good a blade today as the day I traded it.

Will never be worth a dollar at an auction, but priceless to me.
 
This is mine - "Belka" (squirrel)

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I bought it myself for "selfdefence" when I was about 12-14 (never use it for this). It was with me as EDC till 24 probably.

Thanks, Vassili.
 
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