All About Pocket Knives

itf it weren't cracked in some many places ,and didn't have the shield I'd say go for a cigar band, due to it's age i'd leave it as is, just fill the cracks with some superglue, polish it down and leave it be.

Great Old Knives Folks & Advice

Looks like rain moving in for a couple of days. Got two piles of dirt, soon to be mud in the yard. I am having better luck inside, I think

That looks like a Mint straight line to me Smiling-Knife .
Johnnie, I have a little info on your timber scribe. I will get to it asap, if someone else does not.

Here is an old Frary little boys knife made with embossed pewter handles. The works are internal and still has good tension. Honed blade, they taught the kid right!
Decent shape for approximately 125 years old.


Frary later teamed up with Landers & Clark and they made a boys knife together.
It was the Official Boy Scout pocket knife from 1931 to 1939, BSA #1585. All nickel silver pins, bolsters, shield, bail and milled liners. The handles are black composition.

9ball

cool scout knife.

anything you know is most appreciated on the scribe.

nice ones 9 ball, LF&C made a darn good knife!

Nice oldies there 9Ball

9Ball,
That Boy's knife is sweet!

Dale

Great old knives 9-ball. The pewter handle is very unusual. I really like your I*XL whittler MM. Are you embellishing it? s-k

A collector allowed me to select these from a huge collection! It's like Harness Jack Heaven for me, as he was quite happy for me to have his "punch jacks"!! The top knife came from a different guy, but is no less hard to get!
Union Cut Co.
Case Tested (been looking for this pattern for years!)
Case Bradford
Case Tested
Case Bros Little Valley
W.R.Case & Sons

Very nice, as always Charlie. You seem to be able to Harness some really nice older knives.



Bill

love that little valley!

A late 1800s - early 1900s horseman's knife.

Thats a cool knife smiling, is that bone or wood on handle?

perry

Thank-you for the positive feedback singin. The handle is made of horn. s-k

thats a nice on S-K, I guess the toothpick-tweezer ideas isn't new fangled after all!

Talk about having it all, that's a great knife SK, how in the world did they keep all those loose parts together...

Thanks for sharing,

Sunburst

Thank-you Sunburst and MM. Your feedback is much appreciated. s-k

heres a nice older knife that i recently purchased. its a 1940-64 green bone jack knife 62087.

That is very nice Steve. I think this one is 1950s or so. A nice little CASE mop pen knife. s-k

thanks guys. heres a couple more that ive had a while. one is a rough black peanut 6220 and one is a red bone eisenhower pattern 06263. both are 1940-64.

More beautiful knives! Thanks for the pics.

James

Completely forgot about this knife for many years! This is an oldie with a story!
My (patertnal) grandfather immigrated to Buffalo, from Sicily just before 1900. After working for a few years as a brick mason, he established a food wholesale and importing business, selling local goods, and bringing in olive oil, cheese and all the other traditional foods enjoyed by his countrymen and women, and of course now by most Americans! The family all worked in the biz, and in between the wars, my dad had these knives made for customer gifts, at good old Camillus cutlery, a 2 hour drive from Buffalo! Most of you know my SFOs from Queen, so this proves the apple doesn't fall far from the tree! "Daily" was the in-house brand for canned fruits and vegetables, and "Falls" macaroni products (not shown) were from the first pasta factory in North America, owned by my mother's family in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The business relationship is how my parents met. This knife was in a box of mementos my dad left me in 1989 when he passed away.

Hmmm! A knife with your name on it. You're famous Charlie.

Folks ,

Been trying to get caught up, but I do not think that is possible, this placed has really grown.
Just gonna try and work on one area at a time and right now it is old knives.

steve
Those are some mighty fine looking pocket knives. I am beginning to like that little eisenhower pattern.

upnorth
That is the prettiest set of punch jacks I have ever seen. Great old pattern. Plus a cool piece of Family history.

smiling-knife
Thanks Smiling-Knfe, that a nice Horsemans knives. Lots of history with Horses. They have became more of a "Pleasure' ride around here. I showed one to my neighbor (he breeds horses) and he never seen an old one before.

orvet
Thanks, IIRC Frary was the first to make these.

singin46
Thanks and Welcome

muskrat man
That is a nice old knife, I believe I would leave it as is. You are right, LFC did make alot of fine old cutlery and other items also. The Boss still uses one of their old meat grinders to make wontons. I started to post an image of it, maybe one day.

jonet143
My GrandDad ran a saw mill and my Dad told me he used them when he was a kid, that would have been around 1920 or so. I guess you read Levine 4 revised. I believe that is where I saw them called "Race Knives" also. For working on wagon wheels, spokes, etc.. The shape of the blade was use to push on/in pull spokes. Over the years on the web I see them in the Blacksmithing/Old tools category alot.

That is the first Camillus I have seen. I saw/had another once stamped OVB. Most of the other I have seen have been made/stamped by New York Knife Company. I have seen those in early catalogs, so I am guess they are around 100 years old. The pattern has been around longer that that, I am sure.

Here is a excellent/near mint? New York Knife Company scribe with the Hammer Brand tang stamp. They also made the first Official Boy Scout Knives 1923-1931. One is shown below that. I guess I could replace the bail, just leave it be I reckon.
That is a Remington R4373, the first Official Girl Scout 1925?-1940 knife also shown. It has the Tillmans two piece can opener, so it was made some time after 1926.

9ball

cool scout knives 9 ball. i have brl3, where i read about "rase". i had one like yours but someone used it. a lot. half of the blade used and the kick filed down to close in frame. someone else wanted more than me so it was sold. i felt lucky to find the old camillus in suck good condition. trying to picture how it was used on spokes other than as a gouge or marker. thanks for sharing your dad's story.

here is an old schrade wirejack. simple, cheap and useful.