Celluloid Handles

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 4:18 pm

Ken,
I can't tell from the photo, but is this a shell handle? If so it is the first German shell I have seen.

With that much rusting it may be due to off gassing from the celluloid. If it is off gassing, I would keep it away from my other knives. I had a friend loose a lot of money when an old celluloid all of a sudden started to off gas. I had looked in the case about a month before & he had looked at it about a week or two before he discovered the problem. I guess one celluloid started to off gas suddenly and really messed up some nice knives in his collection. It caused rusting on the blades of knives that were not celluloid.

FYI,
Dale

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:14 am

Well I am learning how to take good photos.
I just had to try this one out. Later I will take better close ups.
Most of these are cell handles.
Just a test

So many camera settings!

smiling-knife · Post by **smiling-knife** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:05 pm

Great looking display cabinet there justold52

s-k

muskrat man · Post by **muskrat man** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 10:08 pm

Nice cabinet there, Nice set of Schrade IXL's aswell!

petesknives · Post by **petesknives** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:13 pm

Got the celluliod handles though. Ken

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:17 pm

I need some help here!

Is this a cell handle?

This knife has beautiful Orange Swirl Acrylic handles.

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Fri Oct 13, 2006 11:20 pm

Well this one is it a cell ?

I am getting confused now ?

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 11:51 pm

Well my son and I worked a day at getting better photos.

Here is our best one for all that work.

jonet143 · Post by **jonet143** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 12:12 am

very nice!

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 1:13 am

Nice display Ken!

Dale

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:04 am

justold52 wrote:I need some help here!

Is this a cell handle?

This knife has beautiful Orange Swirl Acrylic handles.

Well is it ??

jonet143 · Post by **jonet143** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:13 am

ken, i think they are both celluoid.

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 4:58 am

I don't know much about Case, but if I had to guess I would say yes.

Here is a Kingston that I got today. The handles have shrunk so I suspect it may be celluloid. I know that some companies made dark celluloid that looked like jigged bone.

Does anyone know if this Kingston is celluloid? If not celluloid, what could it be?

Thanks,
Dale

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 10:00 am

orvet ; I think not. But I did learn some things looking it up. So I am passing on one thing that was any eye opener to me and here it is.

The song Tom Dooley. The Kingston Trio made the song a hit in 1958, but it's an old folk song about a murder that happened in 1866. Noah traveled to western North Carolina where Laura Foster was murdered and Tom Dooley was hanged for that murder. Frank Profit Junior sings a version of the song that goes back to his great-grandmother's time. Profit's great-grandmother witnessed the hanging of Tom Dooley when she was a child in Statesville, North Carolina.

petesknives · Post by **petesknives** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:23 pm

tang is stamped SHEFFIELD CUTLERY CO.

petesknives · Post by **petesknives** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:26 pm

nmikash · Post by **nmikash** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:35 am

Orvet- I have one old Kingston and a couple of Ulsters with similar handles, all of mine show some shrinkage as well. I would say that the material would fall into the catchall category of "composition." I think that celluloid is generally somewhat transparent, where these are opaque. It is definitely not Delrin. Perhaps someone else more wise will help us out.

Nick

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 4:13 pm

Nick,
I thought celluloid was somewhat transparent also until I read the article about celluloid on OKCA's (Oregon Knife Collectors Association) site. http://www.oregonknifeclub.org/celluloid_02.html
They shows an example of a L F & C scout knife in a celluloid called "Perfected Stag." It looks like dark jigged bone or Delrin. I know Delrin doesn't shrink, or at least I haven't seen it happen, bone doesn't tend to shrink, so the only thing I can think of would be celluloid.

Do you know of any composite that shrinks?
This has me puzzled!

Thanks,
Dale

jonet143 · Post by **jonet143** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:16 pm

case yellow comp can schrink.

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 5:18 pm

Thanks Johnnie, I didn't know that!

Dale

justold52 · Post by **justold52** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:27 pm

I am thinking of getting this 112 or the buck 110 ?

orvet · Post by **orvet** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:22 pm

Those are nice Ken!

Are they for sale? Do you know who put the handles on them? I don't think they are factory are they.??

Dale

Mossdancer · Post by **Mossdancer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:02 am

Mr. Jfarmer;
Dont know your states law but all are possibly different. If you interested here is link to an informative piece.

http://pweb.netcom.com/~brlevine/sta-law.htm

jfarmer · Post by **jfarmer** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:24 am

I don't carry my autos. They are collector pieces only. Thanks for the info.

James

4ever3 · Post by **4ever3** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:37 am

I dont think I have posted this one here

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Celluloid Handles

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