All About Pocket Knives

Don't know if it is old or not but maybe obscure? AQUILA made in Italy.

Nice Tom, let me know if you want to get rid of it. Gino

I guess this is both a one hit wonder and an oddball
Chris Wolf




Lion Cutlery.

Wullie, those bolsters on the second knife are sweet! Any clue of what you have there?

Here's another that's kind of unusual. A Vom Cleff corn knife, fixed blade(?) The two halves slide together when open and reverse to close.

gino wrote:Wullie, those bolsters on the second knife are sweet! Any clue of what you have there?

I think it's an old German "export" knife. The shield was glued in and now it's gone. The scales are some kind of composition. I picked it up because it was cheap and had straight pulls on all the blades. It's a tiny little thing. I don't usually mess with knives less than 3.5" or so. This one is about 2.75 or 3".

Here's one you don't see often. Tioga Cutlery. No doubt it is of German descent. Notice the integral handle/bolsters. Tortoise shell inlay. Fancy little knife. Thanks wild/mild Bill for sending it my way. Well made little knife 1875- 1900 Circa.

Next is one you just don't see much in a pocket knife. WESKE Cutlery of Sanduskly OH Just after the second WW, they purchase unassembled knives from the top manufacturers and put their name on them. Mostly you see fine fixed blade knives with this stamp. But they did do some pocket knives as well. Nicely made I might add too. Check out this fine example. The tie to PA you ask? If you read my first book you will see that Bill Atkins of Tidioute was asked to go to WESKE to teach them how to make Pocket Knives. He meet his wife there and then returned to Tidioute. The rest they say is HISTORY and man I love knife history.

nice Weski cutlery always glad to see another in this thread. picked up two this week. a horn handled fleam by Hargreaves & co. and a dogleg by Bigelow & Dowse co.

That WESKE knife ,looks like the"" just released #33 pattern"",that Great Eastern,just came out with ????____you said,they got unassembled knives,from other makers ??? I would guess,that this,was a Tidioute pattern??---before becoming a WESKE ????? Was the number #33 used in either of the knife patterns,of the early makers ????? _________Monk

Heres a few you dont come across very often

Shumate knife co.
Cornwall knife co.

that Shumate looks like a great old knife

Thanks Paul, its a nice solid knife.

You guys ever seen an Imperial Stainless stamp on the front side of the main blade and a Catskill Knife Co., New York, stamp on the back? I just wish this knife didn't have the pin cracks in the scales.

Anyone have information on the Catskill Knife Co.? Thanks!

This is the only example of this brand I have seen. Wabash Cutlery Co. Terre Haute Indiana

Here's a Bower Barlow #65 that I bought off of fleabay from a guy in Germany (I think).

Great old knives guys

Nice ones Bill & Red!

Here's a few old tang stamps of knives I have:

wow nice seeing them old ones

A few more:

A couple more..........

Hey Knife I just got a S & A the other day on Ebay and the link is listed below, but can hardly find any info on it other than they were a hardware distributor in NY but I think they were as big as HS&B. Sorry for not being able to give you a good shot of my own but I'm having problems getting pics off of my computer. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEWNX:IT


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Here is a German made Jones & Son. No idea if its 'obscure' or not.

Here's a nice Herder from Philidelphia.

It will look much nicer when I sharpen it and carry it for a few days.

nice one guys. i just picked up this Knicker Bocker cutlery that i can't find any info on. hate putting one away when i dont even know the country.