All About Pocket Knives

Good job, Goldy!
Hey that could be VIOLET'S cousin! Remember her?
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There ya go! If real bone, your knife just got a little older. Late 40s - 50s.

BTW, here is a capture from the "WAYBACK" machine. It is henandrooster.com's "about us" page from 2016. The page has been inactive since that time, only having a main splash page, with a "return soon" note... About the Company Conceived and hand-made in about 1845, the ...

Here's a link to some of the old codes for handle materials. I don't see MO anywhere though.

"mottled oyster" maybe???

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How did you find these prices ? I checked a few websites and all i saw was "Out Of Stock", no prices shown. Have you got a time machine for going back ? kj, For stuff on the internet, you can use the "wayback machine" https://archive.org/web/ You can type in any url that existed...

KJ, that is a tough one! The world may never know for sure. In all my digging I haven't found any real evidence to prove one way or the other. We know that it was a pretty common practice to outsource to other cutlers, but personally I don't think Boker made it a habit. Boker USA had their own manuf...

Still lifting you up, Brother!

I'm afraid I can't help with Gudedge.
The blade looks to me like it is about 40% gone.
The bird's head pommel just yells "pre-WW2" to me.
I like it!

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This thread has pics of some more with that handle material

Mike that is a beauty. It looks to me like a celluloid handle that Boker called “NU-HORN”.
I’ve seen them in yellow and brown like yours, and also yellow and red.
IIRC, they used that material from the 1920s up til the 1950s.

I have a couple extra pos 492 if you want one.
One is from the seventies with delrin handles. The other is from the early fifties with cracked bone handles.
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