A knife made me a Mark Twain fan!

[TripleF]

Well, it's not like I've started srudying his life renditions but he was a cigar smoker and has this Imperial Knife with his name on it....

Can anyone tell me anymore about this? Or provide a link where more info can be found? Thx!!

[trail]

The knife made you a Mark Twain fan, but Mark Twain made a lot of people knife fans, in particular barlow knife fans. Remember Tom Sawyer making his friend give him a barlow knife for the privilege of whitewashing the fence? That one little passage made the barlow the most popular pattern in America for decades.

[smallknives]

I bought two of those knives new from Sears (along with two Craftsman knives) in 1977 for $3.00 each. I packed them away and just discovered them a few weeks ago. Nice surprise.

[Owd Wullie]

I bought two of those knives new from Sears (along with two Craftsman knives) in 1977 for $3.00 each. I packed them away and just discovered them a few weeks ago. Nice surprise.

I'll bet it was a nice surprise.

Welcome to APPK. Pull up a chair and have some fun.
Willie

[philco]

The handles on those barlows sure do favor the staglon handles on the Uncle Henry knves.

Guess they kept it "in the family".

Nice knives guys.


Phil

[FRJ]

Welcome, smallknives. Nice Barlow group you have there.

[TripleF]

Knice knife and packaging smallknives!! Man, I'd love to read the info on those pieces of paper.....

[smallknives]

Here's the papers.

[Quick Steel]

A very fine collectable. Congratulations.

[HiPower]

welcome, thanks for showing 1st time i've seen one of those. HiPower

[TripleF]

Thanks smallknives!! Thanks very much!

[Absintheur]

Mary gave him a bran-new "Barlow" knife worth twelve and a half cents; and the convulsion of delight that swept his system shook him to his foundations. True, the knife would not cut anything, but it was a "sure-enough" Barlow, and there was inconceivable grandeur in that - though where the Western boys ever got the idea that such a weapon could possibly be counterfeited to its injury, is an imposing mystery and will always remain so, perhaps.
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

All the stores was along one street. They had white domestic awnings in front, and the country-people hitched their horses to the awning-posts. There was empty dry-goods boxes under the awnings, and loafers roosting on them all day long, whittling them with their Barlow knives; and chawing tobacco, and gaping and yawning and stretching - a mighty ornery lot.
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

[TripleF]

Just received this knife NIB as a gift from paulsvintage:
http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kni ... =2&t=25959