All About Pocket Knives

Here is one of the Camillus Abalone Celluloid knives Phil mentioned.

Bill

SFC ADP Check out this post.

Lots of real good Info in here.

I am not trying to be your BOSS just want to help you.

I got this one in a few days ago. It is an Imperial with an Indian on the front handle and 'Great Smokey Mts.' on the back. It isn't mint but it is very nice.

James

Abalone Celluloid looks nice.
I have a Case Paua XX Brothers Mid Folding Hunter 81265LC SS.
Is this celluloid too ? to me it looks more like a shell handle.

I am still waiting for an answer.

Is this a Cell handle or a Shell handle?

Will a shell handle gas out?

Hi justold. I don't know the answer to the first question. To the second question; if it is shell it won't 'gas out'. The 'gassing' is a characteristic of the unstable composition of celluloid which I believe is a petrolium by-product. Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you have a great day s-k

justold, that looks like genuine Abalone to me. Its a natural shell material like mother of pearl. It will not gas out.

James

Kool thanks smiling-knife and jfarmer; that is what it is. but I think some handles that look like Abalone and are not genuine Abalone.

Rough Rider RR350 Mini Canoe Im Abalone is a cell handle.

The reason I am bring this up is many people here still store all of their knives in one safe place. I am trying to get more collectors to store Cell handles in a diffrant safe place. I have gone throught my entire knife collection again and found 2 more knives the I did not think were Cells but sure they are now. Buck Creek Congress Solingen Germany Duck and, C. Platts Son Taper Blue Ice Cell Handle. So if I slip up many other just might too. If I can stop one real good knife from getting hurt bad from a Cell gas-out Just because the collector placed it in the same box with his Stag handles then I fell I helped a lot.

Justold, I store my celluloids separately too.

James

Thought I would bring this back to top again. Nice thread.
Not much of a knife an old shapleigh diamond edge with broken blade. Been looking for it for a month now. IMO the cel is gorgeous without being bright. Notice how it is not symetrical on front and back. No rhyme or reason to pattern.

Mossdancer ; if that knife was made in the 1970's it might be called Psychedelic or lava lamp what ever it was called it was a KOOL knife for the time . I think it seen some rope smoken parties.

Just one Q for you ?
Did you find it in a celluloids drower or box of old knives ?
Or was it mixed in with just old knives ?????

I still do not have a camer YET so I will show this the way I see it on E-Bay.
I did not make this.

How's a Soligen Buck Creek copperhead? Picked this one up a couple weeks ago.

This Yellow looks real good.
To bad case did not make juch nice Yellow handles (meaning the color only).

the old yellow cell is nice, cases newer delrin stuff just don't stack up as far as tone and depth goes.

Here is an amazing example of old celluloid. This is a NYK Hammer Brand (courtesy of mossdancer). It has one good blade, but the handles are amazing! The celluloid has a wood grain effect on the sides nut is red on the edge of the scaled. Amazing old celluloid.

Dale

muskrat man ; 10 4 on that good budy. Yellow Cells are super.

orvet ; Yes it's getting to me that Hammer Brand Knives and Cell handle are becomming my fav. But I don't have a one yet. No one wants to sell the nice looking Hammers. Why is that?

If I get real good at haggleing I might try to get one hammer from our Hammer KING here.

P.S. Bryan thanks for the added icons too ::blah::

thats a nice handled old hammer, I like that cell. Do you have plans to try and re-blade it?

At the moment I am hanging on to the Hammer the way it is because it is the only example of the NYK Hammer tang stamp.

I thing the celluloid is pretty enough to justify keeping it.

Dale

Dale;
You aint seen nuttin yet. I been hanging on to this for an occasion.
I think the ship is the RMS Franconia l. If so she was sunk by a German torpedo in October of 1916. This knife as I understand was a premium or award to a passenger for winning a tournament possibly shuffleboard.
It an ALFRED WILLIAMS +EBRO+ The + represents a Maltese cross.
wb

Edit for spelling

Mossdancer SUPER SUPER man that is one amazing knife.

It's my first ever seeing one like that.
Do you want to part with her? if and when look me up PLEASE.

Mossdancer wrote:Dale;
You aint seen nuutin yet. I been hanging on to this for an occasion.
I think the is the RMS Franconia l. If so she was sunk by a German torpedo
in October of 1916. This knife as I understand was a premium or award to a passenger for winning a tournament possibly shuffleboard.
It an ALFRED WILLIAMS +EBRO+ The + represents a Maltese cross.
wb

Extremely Cool Mossdancer, I love a great knife with incredible history...


Sunburst

dale, that's nice. i zoomed in at 400% and the tang stamp is very nice. i love the maltese crosses.

Very nice mossdancer. I really like knives with a 'history' There was a series of 3 or 4 ships with that name. If from the original, that is a great find. Here is a link with a little more info and a model of the ship.

http://rasputin.physics.uiuc.edu/~wirin ... conia.html



s-k

Another yellow Cell
Sorry for the repeat