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::tu:: Love that Marble Too !!!
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RobesonsRme.com wrote:Loving that Marbles. Where did your grandfather live?
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I love the family heirloom knives.
My Granddad Vincent made this knife & hatchet probably around 1920 while working in a foundry in Reedsport Oregon. He carried the knife and hatchet when he cruised timber for the C.C.C. during the Depression. He carved his initials, RV, on the sheath for the hatchet and on the end of the hatchet handle.

When I was a kid my dad carried the knife for his hunting knife until he got a Schrade Walden 225H in the mid 1960s.
I have the knife my granddad made as well as my dad’s old 225H. My dad still has the hatchet, but I get it when he is done with it.

Heirloom knives have a way of connecting us to our loved ones who have gone.
To use something that he probably used every day is really special.

You must really cherish that Marbles. Neat knife! ::tu::
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These knives and stories are wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing.
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Luv that "CURVED STYLE BARLOW & JIGGING" That Style barlow are much prettier to me than the standard barlow. Superb knife you have there Paulsvintage--Thx Mark
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Family hieirlooms are a link with the past, especially the hand made items.
This is my most prized knife. Made from a planer blade by my Grandfather Archie Edward Wright 1888-1981 in the 1920's
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Bill, hold on to those memories. Pass along and keep them and the knives in the family.

Have a Robeson that belonged to my wife's granddad, he passed sometime in the 50's.
Have a couple of Case EDC's and a Primble EDC that belonged to my wife's Dad, he passed in the 70's.
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Those are some great old family hierlooms gentlemen.

DR, looks like your father in law believed in getting the good out of a knife. :)


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Thanks Phil, yep, he got his money's worth from his knives.
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Howdy folks,

I thought I`d share this story on how my Dad got the knife that you see in the photo`s attached. Dad was born in 1928 and as he and the family would always go into the corner drug store after Sunday church and have a soda fountain or ice cream cone. Well they had one of those contraptions that a person could put a coin into and then try to manipulate a big old crane to locations where they has different things like knives, small dolls, knick knacks and of course they always had one or 2 items that had some real value to entice the person to come back time and again trying to win it. Dad had his eye on thie old Imperial hatchet knife and of course the crane was never stout enough or fast enough to pick it up and drop it in the shute, but as Dad told the story, he would try week after week after week to get it. So, in the mid to late 1930`s as the depression hit everyone hard, Dad would spend his hard earned change on nothing but this old knife. Well, one Sunday, they went into the store and the owner told my family that due to bad business they were goung to have to close the store. Then, the owner went to the contraption and opened it up and took the knife and handed it to my Dad who was elated. He told Dad that while many people had tried to win that knife that he was sure that no one had put more money into that machine trying to win it and said that Dad deserved the knife. Well, many years later Dad got his knife collection out and was telling me the story on where he got this knife and I could just see the gleam in his eye as he handed it to me. It was the first of many knives that he gave me over the years and I`m sure that the reason I love collecting knives was in fact due to this story. I hope you enjoy the story and the photos.

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Awesome story Bob! I dig it! ;) That must be one special knife to you. ::envy::
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Found this one going through my dads stuff. No name old knife made in USA.
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Awesome story Bob! ::tu::
I bet it is one of the most prized knives in your collection!

Thanks for sharing.
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Yep, Gino and Dale, it`s my favorite knife although I`m sure I have older and more rare knives than the old hatchet knife. Odd thing about that old hatchet knife also. Imperial double stamped it, apparently the first stamp was a little too light to suit them so they stamped it again. Everytime I pick up that knife I recollect Dad and my Grandads stories of growing up in the early 1900`s(grandad was born in 1908), hunting, fishing, knife collecting etc(grandad was an old coon hunter and I shot my first coon out of a tree at age 5 with his old 1908 Remingtom .22 semi automatic which is in my gun collection now). Both of them are gone now but the stories and hand me downs live on and keep their memory fresh in my mind. More valuable than anything to me.

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trutemper wrote:Both of them are gone now but the stories and hand me downs live on and keep their memory fresh in my mind. More valuable than anything to me.

Bob

That is so true Bob.

I have my Granddad’s .22 Remington pump. Dad gave it to me a few years ago. I must have killed 10,000 grey diggers (ground squirrels) with it when I was a kid. Dad told me one time that that rifle had probably put more meat on our family table than all the other guns we ever owned put together. It fed 3 generations of my family.

I am truly blessed that both my parents are still living and in reasonability good health. They are 82. They still have 5 acres but have gotten rid of most of the farm animals. They still have a dog and a few chickens. Mom likes the fresh eggs and I cannot remember when Dad didn’t have a dog, at least not for very long.

It is neat how knives, guns and other things remind us of the ones we love so much. I can pass the stories and the things on to my children, but I can’t pass the love I had for my Granddad. For that I have to pass my love for them on to them and new memories and new mementos so they will have the stories and love to pass on to their children & grandchildren.
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Hey Dale,

Nice to hear about your memories too. Looks like we both had a deep love for our Grandads. I`s odd how I can remember his gestures, smiles, the odd way he held his mouth(sorta bit his tongue :lol: ) while peeling an apple. That same old .22 Remington ( and a couple of his shotguns) put a bunch of squirrels, rabbits, quail and pheasants on our table too!! In fact I can almost smell that squirrel and squirrel gravy cookin in Grandmas old cast iron skillet!! Man those were the good ole days!

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Here's a CASE XX 551. There aren't many left. Enjoy!
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whoa!!! Dragon, thats a beauty! Thanks for showing!

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Here is a old and rare
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Sweet knife, Gino! ::tu::
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Thanks kathy, I never knew of Hatch Cutlery before this one. ;)
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Gino,

Hatch knives are scarce. I have been searching for a decent Hatch with a battle ax shield for some time.
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Here is a pretty old and rare Otter knife. Only one or two posted on the site that I could find.
Thanks to basser5 for a little info he forwarded me on this knife.

Gebruder Berns Otterwerk - Gebr Berns Solingen 1899 - 1921

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I'm a little late, but awesome story Bob (truetemper)!!!!
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