Early German Knives

[Yehuda]

I'm a big fan of Solingen steel and German craftsmanship and whenever I run across an old German folder at a good price, I snatch it up.. From top to bottom:
Germania Cutlery, c.1900
Henckel, c.1900
Sword And Shield, c.? (Can't find any info)
Carl Schlieper, c.1950's
Morley And Sons, c. Early 1900's

[tjmurphy]

Without any digging I can show this one. "United Cutlery Co. Germany. Goins says 1908-1922.

[Yehuda]

Nice! I'm in the lookout for a Henry Sears And Sons.

[Yehuda]

My early Kissing Crane.

[gsmith7158]

Yehuda here are a couple of Wester Bros. I have,an old H.Boker and an Electric.

[Yehuda]

Very very beautiful pieces!! At this point in the game I only know enough to get into trouble but am enjoying seeing you guys stuff!!

[smiling-knife]

An Ed Wustof circa early 20th Century.

[Yehuda]

Interesting piece.

[Eustace]

Hi, guys!
Аny idea about the mark? Personally, I guess it's a distributors company.

[kootenay joe]

"Stahl" is "steel"; "F.Stahl" might mean "Fine Steel" so no good clues as to maker.
kj

[JohnR]

Old Germania Cutlery, hammered pins.

[knife7knut]

Here are a few:
#1 Asbro Germany Blades lock open by grasping them and sliding back slightly.To close pull out and fold.
#2 Bergmann & Claddig salesman's sample.
#3 Duane Cutlery 4 blade with gold handles.
#4 Dunlap Germany with button hook.
#5 Empire Specialties advertising knife with pouch.
#6 Carl Schleiper utility pattern with German silver handles.
#7 A.Fiest half congress
#8 A.Fiest advertising knife.
#9 Fine Edge utility pattern.
#10 Marked simply,"foreign". Faux tortoise shell handles stamped "A present from TORQUAY" with purse.

[knife7knut]

A few more:
#1 Germania Cutlery with fancy pressed tin handles.
#2 GMT Cutlery Co.Possibly a fruit knife;blades are low grade gold handles look to be ivory.Strange blades;the hooked one looks to be an orange peeler.
#3Graef & Schmidt.
#4 Griffon Cutlery 4 blade and a pair of folding scissors.
#5-6-7 A strange knife.Blades are marked Henckels-I*XL-Langbein NY Appears to be an old repair. Charles Langbein was a knife distributor in NYC who also repaired knives.
#8 Hoffritz gardener's knife with folding pruning shears.
#9 Marked only "INOX" with strange celluloid bolsters.
#10 F.A.Koch four blade with carved pearl handles and bolsters.This was a common treatment on German knives of the 1930's.

[knife7knut]

A few more:
#1 F.A.Koch corn knife.
#2 Keystone folding hunter with stag handles skinning blade and bird hook.
#3 Korten &Scherf pen knife.
#4 Krusius Brothers corn knife.
#5 Robert Klaas ad knife for the International Order of Odd Fellows.
#6 Robert Klaas single blade boy's knife.
#7 Morning Star(Linder)advertising knife.
#8 W.H.Morley ring turn knife.
#9 National Cutlery Co. quill knife.
#10 Pauls Brothers corn knife.

[knife7knut]

Last batch for now:
#1 A few R.J.Richter knives.
#2 Schnefel Brothers corn knife.
#3 Schmactenberg Brothers half congress advertising Finzer's tobacco. They must have been a large company because I have seen several different maker's knives advertising Finzer's.
#4 Gustav Voss 6 blade utility.
#5 Vom Cleff lobster pattern.Master blade locks open and is unlocked by pressing down on the closed manicure blade.
#6 Vom Cleff stag whittler.Sadly one blade is broken.
#7Vulcan tortoise shell handled congress.Patent # on shield dated 1895.
#8 Small pearl pen marked with a W inside a diamond.Probably German but still haven't found the maker.
#9 York Cutlery co with huge easy open cutout.

[kootenay joe]

Ray, outstanding Vintage German Knife Show !
Regarding the carved pearl, e.g. Koch, you say was popular in 1930's. I have a few carved pearl knives and had thought them to be from early 1900's, before WW I.
kj

[knife7knut]

Ray, outstanding Vintage German Knife Show !
Regarding the carved pearl, e.g. Koch, you say was popular in 1930's. I have a few carved pearl knives and had thought them to be from early 1900's, before WW I.
kj

They could very well be from that era Roland;German knives can be really hard to date sometimes.

[mrwatch]

#4 Krusius Brothers corn knife. I O O F is a lodge called Independent Order of ODD Fellows. I am not a member so I do not know much about them.

[stagman]

Ray...you never cease to amaze me when you get to start pulling em out
and taking pics for a post...now if only you would have got that 20 buck Stag Case XX
knife-axe combo at that garage sale, but ya made up for that with the Marble's knife you
snatched up for 75 cents at that estate sale

Will
http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/clearcreekknives

[knife7knut]

Ray...you never cease to amaze me when you get to start pulling em out
and taking pics for a post...now if only you would have got that 20 buck Stag Case XX
knife-axe combo at that garage sale, but ya made up for that with the Marble's knife you
snatched up for 75 cents at that estate sale

Will
http://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/clearcreekknives

Thanks for the kind words my friend.Can't win em all but the fun is in trying.The best snag knifewise was a Joseph Rodgers spear point bowie I bought in an antique shop for $225. Guy figured it was worth at least a grand and maybe more.
The best score of all though was a 1967 vintage Breitling 806 Navitimer watch that had never been serviced I bought at another yard sale for $5. Couple years ago I had it overhauled for a cost of $500 and I am still way ahead of the game as the watch is worth about $3000 at the moment and going nowhere but up.

[Waukonda]

Recently added this little dandy, and thought I would revive a thread that should be getting more attention. 3 1/4"

[doglegg]

[kootenay joe]

Nice 4 blade Senator. It is a top of the line pattern, usually the most expensive folding knife a company sold according to Bernard Levine.
kj

[Waukonda]

Thank you, Floyd.
Thank you, Roland.

[WillyCamaro]

You said it Ike.
She's a beauty, I love vintage german cutlery, so there.

I have a few of 'em, includeding a mint, Paul A. Henkels, metal gents knife. As y'all know, Kj just transfered me 5+2 more for the collection, I will post when the arrive.